Archive for November, 2009
NASA’s LCROSS mission discoveries water on the moon. The LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket impacted the moon in a permanently shadowed region of Cabeus cater near the moon’s south pole, creating a two-part plume of material from the bottom of the crater. The first part was a high angle plume of vapor and fine dust and [ READ MORE ]
Discovered 09/11/2009 Near Earth flyby of asteroid 2009VA on 06/11/2009 16:30 EST. This is the third-closest known (non-impacting) Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid. Distance – 8,699mi (14,000km) Size – 23ft (7m) More details at: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news166.html[ READ MORE ]
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