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why cant he anyway?
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NASA / NASA JPL:November 03, 2011NASA's Cassini spacecraft will acquire the first detailed radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus during a flyby on Sunday, Nov. 6. These will be the first high-resolution radar observations made of an icy moon other than Titan. The results will provide new information about the surface of Enceladus and enable researchers to compare its geological features as seen by radar with those of Titan.
The spacecraft will fly past Enceladus at a distance of about 300 miles (500 kilometers) at its closest point. During the encounter, Cassini's synthetic aperture radar will sweep across a long, narrow swath of the surface just north of the moon's south pole. Cassini will use other radar techniques to map much more of the surface of Enceladus at lower resolutions and determine some of the surface's physical properties as the spacecraft approaches and then speeds away from the icy body.
During this flyby, the mission's visible-light cameras will take images of Enceladus and its famous jets, and the composite infrared spectrometer will make new measurements of hot spots from which the jets emerge. Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrograph will also make distant observations of Saturn's moon Dione and its environment. -
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And now weather for Arizona: Today's weather, partly cloudy and cooler. (finally it is cooling down) winds from south at 15 to 20 mph Highs will be in the upper 70s F lows in the upper 40s. Tomorrow, mostly cloudy with a 10% chance of thunderstorms during the day, the chance for rain rises to 50% during the evening. Tomorrows highs will be in the upper 60s F and the lows in the mid 40s.In other news, Troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 30 days in jail (she will only serve 15 or less) because of parole violations. Rockstar Games just recently released the new trailer for GTA V on their website and a lot of people's rumors have come true. San Andreas is going to be the next destination for the next game of the series. A release date hasn't been announced. This is the conclusion for important news from randalserrano. Tune in tomorrow for more. (If this thread is still here)news sources:
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SPACE.com:Mark your calendars for an impressive and upcoming flyby of an asteroid that’s one of the larger potentially perilous space rocks in the heavens – in terms of smacking the Earth in the future.
It’s the case of asteroid 2005 YU55, a round mini-world that is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) in diameter. In early November, this asteroid will approach Earth within a scant 0.85 lunar distances.“The close Earth approach of 2005 YU55 on Nov. 8, is unusual since it is close and big. On average, one wouldn’t expect an object this big to pass this close but every 30 years,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Yeomans said that with new radar capabilities at Goldstone in California — part of NASA’s Deep Space Network — there is a good chance of obtaining radar imaging of 2005 YU55 down to the 5-meter resolution level. Doing so, he said, would mean obtaining higher spatial resolution of the object than that attained by recent spacecraft flyby missions.As for seeing the asteroid with small telescopes, start getting your gear ready.
Initially, the object will be too close to the sun and too faint for optical observers.
But late in the day (Universal Time) on Nov. 8, the solar elongation will grow sufficiently to see it. Early on Nov. 9, the asteroid could reach about 11th magnitude for several hours before it fades as its distance rapidly increases, Benner explained. -
For Englishmen/woman from Devon/Somerset M5 in Somerset closed both directions by major pile-up
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-15603124
