Club member and astrophotography buff Johan Retief took this stunning image and mailed it to us with the following details:- “Tonight’s attempt turned into a bit of a lemon! The attached photo taken with camera in piggy-back, 200mm lens, F5.6, ISO 1600, 20 x 20 sec light frames and 10 x dark frames. Field of …
February 15 2013 at 01:34pm By Natalia Shurmina and Andrey Kuzmin REUTERS Chelyabinsk – More than 500 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to Earth, shattering windows and damaging buildings. People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an …
The two holes drilled at John Klein. The test hole (R) is 16mm wide and 20mm deep. The sample hole (L) is 64mm deep. A volume of the grey tailings has been picked up and will be sent for analysis By Jonathan Amos BBC Science correspondent Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover has finally drilled deep enough …
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Astronomers are excited about a sungrazing comet discovered late in 2012. For a short time, it might become as bright as a full moon. That’ll be around the time of its perihelion – or closest approach to the sun – on November 28, 2013. This comet is called C/2012 S1 (ISON) by astronomers. All …
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Talk about a close shave. On 15 February, an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth only 27 681 kilometres above our planet’s surface. There’s no danger of a collision, but the space rock, designated 2012 DA14, has Nasa’s attention. “This is a record-setting close approach,” says Don …
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