Happy Halloween everybody! Here are my younger sister, Dion Lee’s artworks! Enjoy~
Monthly Archive for 十月, 2007
Comet Holmes 17P is getting bigger and bigger. At the same distance as of Jupiter, it’s now bigger than it. Imagine! It was at magnitude 2.3th measured by Dr.Clay on 28 Oct 2007. It was 255 arc seconds across on the same time. If you are interested in the photometry result, you may refer to COMET OUTBURST: Comet 17P Holmes More facts below…
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As you know, the China moon orbiter, Chang’e 1 has been launched at the same day of NASA’s Discovery. One’s destination is the 200 km orbit above the moon and another is ISS. More information will come after I finished my paper tomorrow. 
The annual meteor shower Orionid is coming again. The meteors are the debris of the extremely famous Halley’s Comet. The peak rate this year is around 20-50 per hour. Observers last year spotted the same figure and I guess we will get roughly the same again.
Where to look?
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Congratulations to the crew for successfully entering the orbit! It’s so excited to see the live transmission, the blast of the rocket is so powerful. Now, they will stay in the orbit for 2 days until they dock with the ISS. From the live transmission, I saw that the driving capsule is really small. I would be very uncomfortable if I were them but no choice, we have to adapt.
Yes, adapt is one of the key to choose an astronaut because you have to withstand the recoil force of the rocket when it’s accelerating and able to work under microgravity environment. If you fail this, sorry, you are limited to the ground.
I will update with you what will they do in the lounge. I can’t wait to see Sheikh eating the Malaysian’s food.
Tony Silva, the president of Sao Paula Astronomy Club, Brazil, member of Sidewalk Astronomers (I’m one of them) invites you to join the Sidewalk Astronomy Handbook Project. It’s devised by CASP and the Los Angeles Sidewalk Astronomers. They had the idea for this as they believe that sidewalk astronomy should play a big role in International Year of Astronomy in 2009. There will be a series of events to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s first telescope observation.
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