Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin February 19, 2011 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Since it was launched in 1999, the Stardust spacecraft has travelled about 5.7 billion km (3.5 billion miles) on its odyssey from Earth to comet Wild 2, back to Earth then on to comet Tempel 1. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 16.06.2007 . ... Credit: NASA , U.S. Geological Survey Explanation: To prepare for the Apollo landings , five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched during 1966 and 1967 to gather detailed images of our fair planet's large, natural satellite . ... Note : As of today, June 16 , the APOD editors have enjoyed presenting images from space missions, major observatories, and professional and amateur cosmic tourists alike for twelve years . ... June . ... June 2007 . ...

... Jupiter's icy moon Europa has a metallic core and layered internal structure similar to the Earth's , while the heavily cratered moon Callisto is a mixture of metallic rock and ice with no identifiable central core, according to new results from NASA's Galileo mission . In addition, recent plasma wave observations from Galileo show no evidence of a magnetic field or magnetosphere around Callisto, but do hint at the prospect of a tenuous atmosphere. ... Jupiter Galileo . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... The descent vehicle of spacecraft Soyuz TMA-15M carrying the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 42/43 crew made a successful landing 148 km to the South East of Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan). ... The manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-15M built by RSC Energia was launched to the ISS using Soyuz-FG launch vehicle on November 24, 2014 from the Baikonur launch site. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

433 Eros is an S-type asteroid orbiting the Sun mostly between the orbits of Earth and Mars. orbit: 172,800,000 km from the Sun (average) size: 33x13x13 km . ... Eros has a giant gouge which was of interest. Here's a close-up image. ... NEAR, then renamed NEAR-Shoemaker (after Gene Shoemaker) On Monday, 12 February 2001, the NEAR spacecraft touched down (yes, landed) on asteroid Eros, after transmitting 69 close-up images of the surface during its final descent. ... Eros images from NEAR . ...

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Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Being the 8th commercial launch for Dnepr, this is also its first 'return to flight' mission since the failure encountered on July 27, 2006 during liftoff from Baikonur. In parallel with the successful completion of its first launch campaign in 2007, ISC Kosmotras continues preparations for the next two Dnepr launch missions scheduled to fly from Baikonur and Yasny launch bases. ... Dnepr Program . ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... Videos . ... NASA spacecraft returns first video from farside of the Moon . ... South pole of the farside of the Moon as seen from the GRAIL mission's Ebb spacecraft. ... A camera aboard one of NASAт??s twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the farside of the Moon. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

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... Russian Moon exploration program currently consists of three successive missions, using the legacy of earlier Soviet lunar missions, which included orbiters and landers, sample returns and rovers. ... Currently Russian Moon missions are as follows: . Luna-25 (also known as Luna-Glob-Lander) mission to land the spacecraft on the Moon and the first in a row of a new lunar program, which should eventually lead to exploitation of the Moon. ...

Blog . ... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . Book Store . Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... I just came back from "Superman Returns", the long-awaited sequel, kinda, of the Superman movie series of the 1980s. The movie was OK; I would say it was fun and all but hardly the equal of the original with Christopher Reeve. ... So let's find the nearest phone booth so we can go up, up, and review! ... My review of "Superman Returns" . ... Check out my book "Bad Astronomy" . ...

... cfr 1256.7 . ... Plots were made of the total power vs time and azimuth for the 3 12 second periods using the 1256.7 Mhz signal. 256 channel spectra were computed (49.6 usecs) for the all the data . total power was computed for 1.1 Mhz about each of the two radar frequencies. total power vs time for the 3 rotations (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... the radar blanks for 1.421 seconds when pointing at AO. total power vs radar azimuth for the 3 rotations (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... Top: 1256.7 Mhz pulse . ...

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Crews of the Space Station "Mir" . ... First main crew on the Station Mir. ... Soyuz TM-2" . ... Second main crew on the Station Mir. ... Third main crew on the Station Mir. ... Fifth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Sixth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Tenth main crew on the Station Mir (175 days). ... Twelfth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Thirteenth main crew on the Station Mir (179 days). ... Copyrigth ї The People's Charity Foundation for the Preservation of the Space Station "Mir", 1999 . ...