Category: Space and Astrology

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEJET PROPULSION LABORATORYCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONPASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Contact: Jane Platt (818) 354-0880 PLUTO TO BECOME MOST DISTANT PLANET What’s the significance of February 11, 1999 for Pluto?       On February 11, Pluto will move farther from the Sun than Neptune, regaining its status as the most…

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THE DISCOVERY OF PLUTO   (Patrick Moore and Garry Hunt, “The Atlas of the Solar System,” Crescent Books, New York, 1990, p. 396.) * Because a slight perturbation remained in the orbits of the known planets in 1846, it was surmised that another planet might exist beyond Neptune. * Percival Lowell made a rough calculation…

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured these images of clumps seemingly embedded within Saturn’s narrow outermost F ring. Cassini, which is due to arrive at the ringed planet on July 1, snapped the photos on Feb. 23, 2004, from a distance of 62.9 million kilometers (39 million miles). Two clumps in particular, one of them extended,…

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Collisionless Shock Waves in interstellar matter, By: Roald Z. SagdeevCharles F. Kennel Reprinted without permission from Scientific American, April 1991 Collisionless Shock Waves Shock waves resonate through the solar system, much like thereverberating boom from a supersonic jet. In the latter case, thedisturbance is caused by an aerodynamic shock, an abrupt change in gasproperties that…

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Venus Inside and On TopVenus is the second planet from the Sun, and is Earth’s closest neighbor in the solar system. Venus is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon, and sometimes looks like a bright star in the morning or evening sky. The planet is a little smaller than…

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Venus: The Hottest Planet Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is our closest neighbor. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky. Only the moon is brighter. Venus is a beautiful planet at night. Even though it is so close to Earth, Venus is very mysterious. We cannot see…

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The following material was downloaded from the NASA SpaceLinkBBS at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, George C.Marshall Space Flight Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama35812 on 11/16/88. ——————————————————————–W H A T ‘ s N E W O N T H E M O O Nby Dr. Bevan M. French In 1969 over a billion…

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Venus exploration is actually very important for climatology of the planet Scientists from the Space Research Institute in the Russian Academy of Sciences will participate in a European mission to Venus performed by the Venus-Express unmanned station, Director of the Space Research Institute Oleg Korablev said in an interview to RIA Novosti on Tuesday. “Russian…

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