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tiger2000
28-06-2015
Isn't that 2 failed supply launches in a row for the ISS?
atg
30-06-2015
Genus and Jupiter looked very nice together tonight. Here's hoping for clear skies the next couple to.

It isn't often Jupiter is completely outshone.
Kapellmeister
30-06-2015
Originally Posted by atg:
“Venus and Jupiter looked very nice together tonight. Here's hoping for clear skies the next couple to.

It isn't often Jupiter is completely outshone.”

Ah, I wondered what they were. I knew one was Venus but assumed the other was just a bright star! Wish I'd got my telescope out now.
Rich Tea.
30-06-2015
I was only saying to someone yesterday when I saw this on the news as I was with them that it's quite amazing how over 40 years ago we sent enormous Saturn V rockets with human beings on top of them into space, then all the way to the moon and back in the module a whole 6 times, not to forget a successful aborted one, with all that risk and ancient tech involved plus distance, yet here we are with a handful of quite modest and straightforward looking rockets designed to simply reach an orbit of a couple of hundred miles and not even getting close to it before disintegrating.

It almost defies common sense in many ways....unless these rockets are being done on a tight budget, dare I say on the cheap due to cutting the costs and increasing the risk in doing so.
Heston Veston
30-06-2015
The SpaceX failure was the first following eighteen previously successful launches, and the Progress failure was also a rare event - statistical blips.

But Saturn V is also a statistical blip - NASA were lucky to get away with zero losses in 13 launches, but then, silly money was spent on the programme. I was trying to find out how many F1 engines were destroyed during development and testing, and it seems to have been at least in double figures.
sickparrot
30-06-2015
Originally Posted by atg:
“Genus and Jupiter looked very nice together tonight. Here's hoping for clear skies the next couple to.

It isn't often Jupiter is completely outshone.”

By the time it gets dark enough they've disappeared from view pah!

Get to look at Saturn as a consolation though.
atg
30-06-2015
No clouds anywhere to be seen, so very hopeful of a good view.
planets
30-06-2015
Originally Posted by atg:
“No clouds anywhere to be seen, so very hopeful of a good view.”

perfect view tonight just been out and it's really clear! hoorah
atg
01-07-2015
Conjunction was just seen from Blackheath before the clouds took over, Saturn too, very faintly through the haze.

I'll upload a couple of shots when I can work out how.
Eddie Badger
02-07-2015
Rosetta finds sinkholes on comet
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...oles-comet-67p
Eddie Badger
02-07-2015
Getting closer to Pluto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33369045
albertd
02-07-2015
Unusually, two Full Moons this month. Today and 31st.
Rich Tea.
02-07-2015
Originally Posted by albertd:
“Unusually, two Full Moons this month. Today and 31st.”

Next time there is a blue moon after this month will be in January 2018, followed by another almost immediately in March 2018.
Keyser_Soze1
03-07-2015
Originally Posted by Eddie Badger:
“Getting closer to Pluto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33369045”

Those four dark and evenly spaced spots are incredibly mysterious.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FGfD7pbMyEs/maxresdefault.jpg

planets
03-07-2015
Originally Posted by Keyser_Soze1:
“Those four dark and evenly spaced spots are incredibly mysterious.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FGfD7pbMyEs/maxresdefault.jpg

”

conclusive proof the ancient egyptians were aliens i'd say
Keyser_Soze1
03-07-2015
Originally Posted by planets:
“conclusive proof the ancient egyptians were aliens i'd say ”

Damn right!
FIN-MAN
03-07-2015
Originally Posted by planets:
“conclusive proof the ancient egyptians were aliens i'd say ”

That's enough proof for this guy |
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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...c7bba710cc.jpg
albertd
03-07-2015
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Next time there is a blue moon after this month will be in January 2018, followed by another almost immediately in March 2018.”

Oh yes, and the second date in January will also be a total lunar eclipse.

Though I don't yet know where it will be visible, I suspect it will not be in Europe as it is happening in the early afternoon our time, so will probably be visible somewhere in the Pacific area. Anyway, there should be a few more before that.
Eddie Badger
05-07-2015
Guardian article about New Horizons
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...s-pluto-charon
TelevisionUser
05-07-2015
Originally Posted by Eddie Badger:
“Guardian article about New Horizons
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...s-pluto-charon”

...and there's an equivalent Nature science video here: Why Pluto?

Spoiler
I would have been happy to have had an 11 planet Solar System with Pluto and Eris being recognised as full planets with the smaller bodies being regarded as dwarf planets such as Ceres and Makemake
tiger2000
08-07-2015
New Photo of Pluto

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-n...s-flyby-begins
Keyser_Soze1
08-07-2015
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...y-photo-space/
FIN-MAN
08-07-2015
The anticipation is killer.
https://giphy.com/gifs/oscar-inglour...-1tOJoYRAI4PII
Eddie Badger
09-07-2015
Another image from Pluto http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33459476
TelevisionUser
09-07-2015
Originally Posted by Eddie Badger:
“Another image from Pluto http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33459476”

...and there's more:

New Horizons map of Pluto: The whale and the donut (that's probably the first ever proper map of Pluto - soon to be improved though!)

Ready to explore Pluto? NASA’s New Horizons - the fastest spacecraft ever created - will speed past Pluto on July 14, 2015, beaming back high resolution photos (and invaluable data) of the dwarf planet’s surface for the first time in human history.

What we've seen so far makes Pluto seem a bit like Triton but we won't have too long to wait to see how similar they really are.
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