Cranbrook College Meteor – Aug 2013
Hot News from Rick Nowell: Cranbrook College of the Rockies meteor camera picked up a very long and slow meteor graze or something re-entering the atmosphere. Slow, it takes 30 seconds to cross the sky. That happened on Tuesday 6 Aug 2013 at 4:52 am Mountain Daylight Time (or 10:52 Universal Time). [cid:f94223bc-ecaf-4a31-a8c4-36379206b130] […]
Waiting for Comet ISON
So now we have three hypotheses for the COMET ISON as it approaches and passes the perihelion over the next 28 days (Nov 28th is the date) : NASA Frozen Ice : predicts extreme temperature and pressure might (50-50) cause disintegration of the shell and evaporation of the core. Good news : the 2 tails […]
Asteroids v. Comets
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144 Billion Earth-like Exoplanets in our Galaxy
June 2013 : Kepler Mission updated its estimates. Here are these latest numbers right from the horses-mouth (Professor Ravi Kopparapu). As at 20 June 2013, Dr. Kopparapu, expert with the Kepler Mission estimates : Stars in the Galaxy : 400 billion The number of habitable earth-like exoplanets in our Milky Way Galaxy : 144 billion (> […]
NASA wants amateur astronomers to track ‘dangerous’ asteroids
Here’s your chance to save the planet! NASA has called on amateur astronomers and other citizen-scientists to help identify the smaller and potentially destructive asteroids lurking in the cosmos, which could wipe out a city upon impact with Earth. Scientists estimate that about 90 per cent of asteroids that are one kilometre or larger which […]
Watching for Hazards
22 May 2013 : ESA today inaugurated a new hub that will strengthen Europe’s contribution to the global hunt for asteroids and other hazardous natural objects that may strike Earth.
Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR)
Each day approximately 4000-5000 individual meteoroid orbits are measured by CMOR – the amount of “clumpiness” in these radiants determines the location of individual showers. {iframe width=”550″ height=”300″ }http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/cmor-radiants/{/iframe} Click here to see full CMOR site :
Website Upgrade to Joomla 2.5 Completed
We have now migrated our website to Joomla 2.5. Please excuse us if there are any problems. Feel free to test the new site. We welcome you to report issues and suggestions to wesmith@outlook.com . Click here to see more about our new design – Joomspirit template 75. Three of the good things with this […]
First Image from Cattle Point – RASC Victoria
2013-03-31 at Cattle Point Urban Star Park in Victoria BC. First time at the newest Urban Dark Sky site in Canada. John McDonald captures the Comet Pan Starrs which is receding and not as bright as it has been. But still shows up nicely along with the Andromeda Galaxy in this wide field image. Details […]
Flying Over the Earth at Night
Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. {youtube} FG0fTKAqZ5g {/youtube}