Originally Posted by balthasar:
“Thank you, I did wonder if it had dropped off the radar...!”
“Thank you, I did wonder if it had dropped off the radar...!”
I sincerely hope that it puts on a better display than the damp squib that was Comet PanSTARRS which was best seen from southern hemisphere skies - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=co...w=1024&bih=578
Hopefully, there should be some clear skies over UK when Comet ISON becomes visible. In any event, the Slooh Space Camera will probably feature it at some stage with a live feed from an observatory with good observing conditions so I'd suggest keeping a watch on that website: http://events.slooh.com/
And now for some astro news...
Scientists Find A Water-Rich Planet Outside Our Solar System. Japanese scientists have determined that a planet outside our solar system that most likely has a water-rich atmosphere. The planet, Gliese 1214b, is only 40 light years from Earth.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknap...ampaign=Buffer
Unmanned Moon mission lifts off. Nasa has launched its latest mission to the Moon to study its tenuous atmosphere and strange-behaving dust.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23939448
New, huge extinct volcano discovered that rivals Mars' Mount Olympus.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24007339
Following on from the story above, the largest mountain in the solar system is Mount Rheasilvia which is one of those central crater impact mountains on the asteroid Vesta. It's 22 km or 14 miles high.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheasilvia
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15667
Mars' moon Phobos eclipses the Sun, as seen by the Curiosity rover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZoD...ature=youtu.be
Phobos is Mars' largest and innermost moon whilst Deimos is smaller and further away from Mars and, as such, it undergoes transits across the Sun as opposed to proper eclipses. Both Phobos and Deimos are shaped like huge baking potatoes and are presumably captured asteroids (Mars being nearer the asteroid belt) although that theory is under review.
Links:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...11_634x432.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcHkXgesG0M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glah07CTS7c




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