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NASA visits Hermanus
From left to right: Dr Jeff Hoffman, Dr Robert Williams, Dr Gordon McCloud, Prof. Charles McGruder NASA ASTRONAUT GIVES PUBLIC LECTURES TO PROMOTE ASTRONOMY AND SUPPORT FOR THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY BID An astronaut from the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)held public lectures during a visit to Hermanus on 13 November …
Hermanus meteorite sighting
TUESDAY 27 JULY E-mail to all committee Members QUOTE I received a call from Georgio at the Wortelgat Nature Reserve that he saw a bright moving object in the sky between Gans Baai and Stanford sometime between 10.00 pm and 11.00 pm that appeared to break up as it approached Stanford area. Did any of …
Orbital chaos may result in collisions between Earth and other planets – Cape Times article
12 Jun 2009 Cape Times PARIS: A force known as orbital chaos may cause our Solar System to go haywire, leading to possible collision between Earth and Venus or Mars, according to a study released on Wednesday. The good news is that the likelihood of such a smash-up is small, around one-in-2 500. And even …
Will probe’s upcoming fly-by unlock exotic physics?
The Rosetta probe will fly by Earth on Friday (Illustration: ESA/C. Carreau) 10 November 2009 by David Shiga What’s causing spacecraft to mysteriously accelerate? The Rosetta comet chaser’s fly-by of Earth on 13 November is a perfect opportunity to get to the bottom of it. The anomaly emerged in 1990, when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft whizzed …
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