Tag: NASA
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Spaceapps challenge at York
An email from the University which may be of interest: Hi there, On the weekend of 20th and 21st April 2013, the Department of Computer Science, University of York will be hosting the International Space Apps Challenge, a free 2-day event on developing apps as solutions that address real-world critical challenges set by NASA.…
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Death of Sir Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore‘s death should surely be marked globally, because it is the passing of a man who as an amateur had a greater impact in his field – specifically planetary astronomy – than many professionals. Are there any others left in pure science who can claim that? Patrick Moore is most likely to be remembered…
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Into the void
Voyager 1 was launched in September 1977 and is now on the verge of truly entering interstellar space. Expect an announcement any time that this has indeed happened. The fact that the satellite is still functioning and returning useful scientific data to Earth is a truly magnificent engineering achievement. Indeed there are good grounds for…
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Roy Spencer – a thought
Roy Spencer – the former NASA employee who wrote the paper that has now led to the resignation of the editor of Remote Sensing also obviously fancies himself as an economist and has a book out: FUNDANOMICS: The Free Market, Simplified Of it, he says (his emphasis): Best-selling author Roy W. Spencer looks at the…
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Maybe my kids should worry about 2009 BD – but I won’t
Today is my eldest daughter’s 16th birthday. That means in April 2078 she will be a sprightly 82. I will, though, I am sure, be long gone at 112. And, maybe she should be worried about 2009 BD, the 10 metre lump of rock that passes inside the Moon’s orbit this week – because on…
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The end of the world is nigh: 2 June 2011
Actually, its unlikely, at least in the short term. I discovered today that the Jet Propulsion Library run an easy to use website on objects that come close to Earth – and then went on to discover that it was predicting an object, travelling at 2000 metres per second relative to the Earth was due…
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