Feb 14
A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. “We are definitely in the bonus round,” said Stardust-NExT Project Manager Tim Larson of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “This spacecraft has already flown by an asteroid and a comet, returned …
Jan 27
SAAA Meeting Minutes – January 2011 We did not hold a separate Board meeting in January. These items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting on January 14th, 2011. Old Business Items 1. We set the agenda for the Feb. 14th Park Township program. 2. We discussed what the club could present at the March …
Jan 17
Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 AN52 is flying past Earth today just inside the orbit of the Moon (0.8 LD). The space rock is only 8 meters wide, about the size of a small room, so even experienced amateur astronomers will have trouble photographing it as it zips through the northern constellations Draco and Cygnus glowing like …
Jan 12
How cool is this? This 36-frame video, from NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar, depicts the rotation of asteroid JL33 – an irregular, elongated object roughly 1.8 kilometers (1.1) miles wide.
Jan 04
Here is an interview with John Dobson popularize of the widely-used Dobsonian telescope design that now bears his name. Our club has an heritage with John and the Vivekananda Monastery.
