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Paranormal Communications?

Nostradamus And the Doomsday Comet

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Apollo Moon Landings Fact or Fiction

Alien Autopsy Film a Furphy

Internet filtering an election sweetener?

Space Shuttle Jitters

Why do marine mammals “beach” themselves?

Global warming fact or fiction?

Blue Moon

Home made WiFi antennas

Unidentified Summer Lights..... Continued

See The Planet Venus By Daylight

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Saturn was thought to have only seven rings named A through to E and few faint unnamed rings. NASASs new telescope called the Spitzer Space Telescope was able discover a new undiscovered ring by picking up tiny particles of dust and ice using an infrared instrument. The ring is about 1....

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New Horizons spacecraft Mission to Pluto The New Horizons spacecraft has almost crossed the halfway mark on its journey to the demoted planet Pluto. This journey will take almost 10 years to complete. The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in the beginning of 2006 and is currently the faste...

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Asteroids and proto-planet's the difference may seem a little confusing since the reclassification of Plutos status as a planet has been demoted to dwarf planet. There are a few significant large asteroids orbiting between the orbit of Jupiter and Mars. <style type="textcss"> @import ...

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A super iceberg is floating towards the Australian mainland. At 50 billion tonnes, iceberg B17B its a serious chunk of real estate. The iceberg has broken off the Antarctic shelf of some 10 years ago and it slowly made its way across the ocean. Although the iceberg is estimated to be 19 km...

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The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. <style type="textcss"> @import url(http:www.google.comcseapibranding.css); &l...

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Around 30 years ago astronomers at kitt peak Arizona had found what they believed to be two galaxies. <script type="textjavascript"><!-- window.googleAfmcRequest = client: 'ca-mb-pub-1316564659223715', ad_type: 'text_image', output: 'html', channel: '', format: '...

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Recently NASAs Luna reconnaissance orbiter photographed images of some of the Apollo missions. 40 years on the controversy still continues whether or not the Apollo missions actually went to the moon. With recent advances in technology especially in the imaging department has enabled us to...

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Jupiter has had another massive hi,t almost to the day. In July 20 2009 A massive comet or large asteroid left a massive bruise on Jupiter surface. Some 15 years ago you may recall the demise of comet Shoemaker- Levy 9 made a series of impact across Jupiters surface. An amateur astronomer, Ant...

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Recent updated data, from NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid named Apophis. Apophis was discovered in 2004 and posed a real threat that it could collide with Earth around 2036. However The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous e...

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Not so according to NASA -Reuters Photo. The recent NASA moon probe has proved less than spectacular as far as providing a visual show. The probe was designed to gather specific information regarding the possible existence of frozen water beneath the moon's surface. There are many...

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Australia experienced a major dust storm this particular storm spanned several states. The gigantic dust cloud covering a vast proportion of Australia's eastern states. It is probably the largest dust storm in Australia seen in the last 70 years. Although dust storms are fairly common in Aus...

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Sorry folks it`s taken me a while to write another blog, I am now back after a few weeks in hospital. A sizable gamma ray burst seen in April this year has come from the very edge of the universe. What makes this burst interesting is that what we are seeing happened when the universe exp...

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An asteroid the size of a small car exploded over Africa last October. This event created a great opportunity to get more information regarding the numerous space rocks surrounding our solar system. Asteroid called. 2008 TC3, had apparently been studied before encountering a fiery descent ...

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The NASCAR lines are a series of geoglyphs picture graphs carved in the vast planes off the Nasca Desert In located in Peru . These pictures seem to be created by the Nasca people around 200 BCE and 700 CE. The figures represent animals people and mythology resulting from the culture. Th...

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When we look up in the night sky we see a myriad of stars some bright some not so bright each point of light we see is an individual star in its own right. When we look at the stars above us you notice the expanse and perhaps wonder where we fit in. Our system is not located in the cente...

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Over the centuries there have been many doom day stories telling the end of the earth is Nye. But if you cast your minds back to the year 2000 the same people were saying it again, On May 5 2000 we had a rare planetary alignment we could see Mercury Venus the earth Mars Jupiter and Saturn th...

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Saturn's New Ring	Myths and Legends	Comet or Asteroid ?	Once in a Blue Moon and other things
New Horizons spacecraft Mission to Pluto	Star Sirius	Asteroids and Proto-planets	Super Iceberg Seen off the Australian Coast
Orion Nebula a Star factory in the Making	Duplicate Galaxies ?	Luna orbiter finds signs of past Apollo missions	Jupiter takes another massive hit
Large asteroid path recalculated	Moon Probe a Fizza?	The Freaky Red Storm	A blast from the past
Rare space rock strikes Africa	What are the NASCAR lines and what do they represent?	Our Place in the Universe	Will a mass planetary alignment destroy the world in 2040?

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Saturn's New Ring

January 31st 2010 05:24

An artist's impression on Satrun's new ring

Saturn was thought to have only seven rings named A through to E and few faint unnamed rings.
NASAS’s new telescope called the Spitzer Space Telescope was able discover a new undiscovered ring by picking up tiny particles of dust and ice using an infrared instrument.

The ring is about 1.5 million miles thick and at a much greater distance than Saturn's other famous rings, making it bigger than any other ring previously studied in the Solar system.

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The largest known rings in the solar system was Saturn's E ring.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, published the discovery, said the ring was probably made up of left over particles kicked off Saturn's moon Phoebe by small impacts from passing asteroids.

The telescope was able to pick up very small particles of ring dust, that shine with thermal radiation from the Sun, by using an infrared wavelength.

The ring's orbit is inclined at 27 degrees from the planet's main ring system. The bulk of it starts about 3.7 million miles (6 million km) away from the planet and extends another 7.4 million miles (12 million km).

The question is why did it take scientists so long to discover something so massive?

The ring is made up of ice and dust particles that are spread so far apart that if you happened to flying within this ring, you would be totally unaware you were actually in it.

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Myths and Legends

January 29th 2010 03:49

Well it was bound to happen the urban myths and legends are on the rise despite any evidence to support them.

The newest myth gaining popularity on the internet is the notion that the world will experience a catastrophe on the winter solstice of 2012, either from collision with a (mythical) object called Nibiru sometimes referred to as planet X.

Some believe that planet X or Nibiru orbits beyond the asteroid belt so far there is no evidence that this object exists.

Nibiru a Babylonian term (also transliterated Neberu, Nebiru) is a term in the Akkadian language, translating to "crossing" or "point of transition" this term is referring to rivers or crossing of rivers.

The world is no stranger to these myths there have been many over the centuries.
In 1910 there was world wide concern that the comet Halley would poison the earth.
The comet’s tail did pass the orbit of the earth resulting in multiple meteor showers the earth’s atmosphere was not poised, humans are currently doing a good job of that.

The world will go through lets call it a catastrophe incident in the future after all it is a numbers game. Whether is a natural occurrence or fragment from space the evidence so far presented does not support the 2012 doomsday prediction.

The ancient Sumerians believed Neberu would caused chaos some 4000 years ago. I suspect that’s where the 2010 prediction comes from.

Although no one predicted the near miss in 2009 of asteroid 2009 DD45 this 200 feet wide piece of real estate came visiting at a distance of only 40000miles.

Forty thousand miles may sound like a heck of a lot, the reality is it's only about one-seventh of the way to the moon, and less than twice as far out as many telecommunications satellites.

This rock was a total surprise. These events are not time specific, this type of event could happen at any time anywhere with little warning.

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Comet or Asteroid ?

January 23rd 2010 09:26

A mysterious comet-like object recently found in images obtained from a ground-based
telescopes might be fine particle debris from a high-speed asteroid collision, according to reports printed in some scientific journals.

The comet like object may contain rock and ice fragments that have sublimated forming a tail like appearance much like any ordinary comet.

P/2010 A2 is the 5th object classed as Main Belt Comet (MBC)
Main Belt Comets do not behave as normal comets, MBC objects orbit within the warmer, inner regions of the asteroid belt.

If this theory is confirmed, the object would represent the first time
astronomers have witnessed the debris of a high speed collision with another object in space.

Dubbed P/2010 A2 (LINEAR), the fuzzy, tailed mystery object is about 130,000
miles (210,000 kilometers) to 190,000 miles (305,000 kilometers) long. The debris looks like a fuzzy comet’s tail, stretching partway across the Solar system in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The asteroid belt contains thousands of asteroids of all shapes and sizes. The asteroid belt is about 250 million miles (402 million kilometers) from Earth.

Image James Annis (Fermilab), and David Jewitt (UCLA)

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Once in a Blue Moon and other things

January 13th 2010 02:39

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New Horizons spacecraft Mission to Pluto

December 30th 2009 07:37

New Horizons spacecraft

New Horizons spacecraft Mission to Pluto
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Star Sirius

December 28th 2009 11:44

Star constellation Canes Major

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Asteroids and Proto-planets

December 23rd 2009 03:46

Asteroids and proto-planet's the difference may seem a little confusing since the reclassification of Pluto’s status as a planet has been demoted to dwarf planet. There are a few significant large asteroids orbiting between the orbit of Jupiter and Mars.

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Super Iceberg Seen off the Australian Coast

December 10th 2009 01:03

A satellite image of iceberg B17B (top left), some 19 kilometres (12 miles) long, floating in the Ross Sea, near Antarctica. The monster iceberg - nearly twice the size of manhattan island - is drifting towards Australia.

A super iceberg is floating towards the Australian mainland

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Orion Nebula a Star factory in the Making

December 9th 2009 04:58

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

The Orion Constellation as seen from the southern hemisphere

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