Possible Impact Tonite!
October 6, 2008 by David Dickinson
Filed under Astro News, Astro News & Commentary
A quick shout out; asteroid 2008 TC3 is forecast to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere early in the AM Tuesday morning over Sudan. The tiny NEO is about 10 meters in diameter, and is scheduled to burn up at about 2:46 UT on October 7th, 2008. It may put on quite a show! [...]
Astro-event for October 6th-12th, 2008: Spot the Hubble Space Telescope!
October 6, 2008 by David Dickinson
Filed under Astro News & Commentary, Weekly Astro-events
Save the Hubble! (Credit: NASA).
I almost didn’t do this weeks’ event. The Hubble space telescope is in trouble. This past week, the failure of Hubble’s Control Unit- Side A has meant that the telescope is effectively crippled in space; engineers will attempt to transfer services to the Side -B backup, which hasn’t been used [...]
