Possible Impact Tonite! October 6, 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Astro News, Astro News & Commentary , add a commentA 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! We here at Astroguyz composed a quick video in Starry Night and posted it at our companion Youtube site. The view in the video is from the perspective of the asteroid coming in over the night side of the Earth. The asteroid itself will be visible to the Eastern US a few hours prior to impact, but of course, weather prospects don’t look good!
October 2008: News & Notes. October 1, 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Astro News, Astro News & Commentary , add a comment(Newsflash- NASA announced recently that STS-125, the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, will be delayed indefinitely due to a failure of the telescopes’ main control unit. Engineers are looking at options to restart a backup unit. That also scrubs Astroguyz’s mission to cover the launch live! click here for more info!)
First Exoplanet Pic? (Credit: Gemini North Telescope).
First Image of an Exo-Planet: Astronomers utilizing the Gemini North telescope have produced what may be the first image ever of an exo-planet. The three person team from the University of Toronto used the adaptive optics of the enormous telescope to image the object in the glare of 1RXS J160929.1-210524, about 500 light years distant. (more…)
Election 08′; What About the Science? September 4, 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Astro News, Astro News & Commentary , 1 comment so farOk, this week, Astroguyz will get political. I promise not to bludgeon my fans with it like the rest of popular media.
Ummm…you know who…(or whom!)
We here at Astroguyz decided to do this piece not just to jump on the election year band wagon, but as an effort to educate ourselves. Frequently, we hear much talk about Iraq and the economy during an election, but little about science. (more…)