A cosmic collision: Two satellites due to smash into surface of the moon… but don't worry, it was all planned by Nasa
I just remembered a song n Mάνα μou used to listen to - Πιο Ψηλά Κι' Aπ' T' Άστρα
Monday, December 17
Wednesday, November 28
Maybe the Darksiders had a point!
US planned to blow up the moon
A missile carrying the bomb would have been launched from an undisclosed location on Earth and travel to the moon, where it would detonate on impact.
The project would have been carried out in 1959, but was reportedly abandoned by military officials due to fears that it would endanger people on Earth should the mission fail.
Tuesday, November 27
Monday, November 26
Is this you?
Found it on the beach, brought it home to take a photo and will put it back now. Might have done an Internet search, but I can’t really read it.
Friday, November 9
Sunday, October 28
Thursday, October 25
Sunday, October 21
The Smallest Sea Glass Collection in the World just got bigger!
No idea what it is, it is less opaque when wet, and seems to have bits of fine wire through it. Please le tme know if you know what it is.
Friday, October 12
Many scientists have said it didn't exist.....
Scientists uncover mystery of ball lightning
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-12/scientists-uncover-mystery-of-ball-lightning/4310800
Posted
A team of Australian scientists believe they have
uncovered the cause of one of nature's most bizarre phenomenon - ball
lightning.
Ball lightning is typically the size of a grapefruit and lasts up to 20 seconds."Ball lightning has been reported by hundreds of people, for hundreds of years and it has been a mystery," said CSIRO scientist John Lowke, lead author of a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.
Saturday, September 1
Once in a blue moon!
If you have read The Stone Summons, you may remember my Gran and me saw a blue moon. A skid at school started making a fool of me, saying blue moon was just a phrase and din't mean the moon was blue. So I was very happy when our science teacher showed me this! (How did he know it mattered? Because this skid put it on Facebook, didn't he! But doesn't know anything about privacy settings, serves him right!)
"The origin of the modern version of this phrase dates to March 1946, when amateur astronomer James Hugh Pruett made a calendar error in an article for Sky & Telescope magazine. Before then, the definition of a blue moon wasn’t quite set in stone. It meant different things, including an obvious absurdity, a symbol for sadness and loneliness, a gin and curaçao cocktail, or a rare event. In some very unusual cases the moon will actually appear blue, generally because of dust resulting from a volcanic eruption, forest fire, or dust storm. The twice-in-one-month full moon definition has now become the standard."
"The origin of the modern version of this phrase dates to March 1946, when amateur astronomer James Hugh Pruett made a calendar error in an article for Sky & Telescope magazine. Before then, the definition of a blue moon wasn’t quite set in stone. It meant different things, including an obvious absurdity, a symbol for sadness and loneliness, a gin and curaçao cocktail, or a rare event. In some very unusual cases the moon will actually appear blue, generally because of dust resulting from a volcanic eruption, forest fire, or dust storm. The twice-in-one-month full moon definition has now become the standard."
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Saturday, May 5
This is totally unbelievable.......
...and yet, of course, it isn't, because we did it!
But still, am totally discombobulated.
(Ha, bet you didn't know I knew that word!)
But still, am totally discombobulated.
(Ha, bet you didn't know I knew that word!)
Swarm of pebbles could safely deflect asteroids
FLINGING pebbles at an asteroid sounds like a fruitless task,
but a new calculation shows that this could deflect an
Earthbound rock.
but a new calculation shows that this could deflect an
Earthbound rock.
- New Scientist
- 05 May 2012
- Magazine issue 2863
Tuesday, April 24
He just grinned up at me.
Now I've noticed the other one, on his side. For some reason reminds me of "two vast and trunkless legs of stone..."
Saturday, April 21
This is freaky! Was it us? When we flung the stone that put the stars to flight?
Invisible dark matter is supposed to make up over 80 per cent of the universe's mass but a new survey of nearby stars and galaxies suggests our patch of the cosmos could be totally free of the stuff.
If the only matter in the Milky Way is the visible stuff like stars and planets, then stars at the edge are moving too quickly to be held by our galaxy's gravity.
In order to keep the stars on the fringes from flying away, there must be some additional mass creating the extra gravity needed to hold them.
Thursday, January 5
Not quite sure what it means but....
Rare Moon mineral found in Australia
Updated
A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than 1 billion years old.
Named after Apollo 11's 1969 landing site at the Sea of Tranquility, tranquillityite was one of three minerals first discovered in rocks from the Moon and the only one not to be found, in subsequent years, on Earth.
Australian scientist Birger Rasmussen said tranquillityite had "long been considered as the Moon's own mineral" until geologists discovered it, by chance, in rock from resources-rich Western Australia.
Sunday, January 1
In search of secrets on the far side of the moon
Can't help wondering what effect this may have!
Lunar mystery ... both sides of the moon are shown in this undated image. Photo: AP/NASA TWO NASA spacecraft are slipping into orbit around the moon to try to answer persistent questions about Earth's celestial companion.
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