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NASA je na zadnji julijski dan objavila novico o odkritju novega exoplaneta, ki naj bi bil od nas oddaljen le 21 svetlobnih let. Gre za Zemlji najbližji trdni planet izven našega sončnega sistema. Na sliki je zvezda HD 219134, katere droben pomežik je izdal prisotnost tega planeta.
Venera, ki počasi zapušča večerno nebo, postaja vse tanjši krajec. Venera je zdaj videti kot zelo tanek krajec ker prihaja med Sonce in Zemljo. Vidimo le njen osvetljeni rob. Že konec tega meseca bomo Venero lahko spet opazovali zjutraj pred sončnim vzhodom na vzhodnem nebu, ko bo svetila kot Danica.
Spet je leto naokoli in okoli 11. in 12. avgusta bodo po nebu spet leteli Perzeidi. Perzeidi veljajo za enega najbolj priljubljenih meteorskih rojev, saj se zgodijo poleti, ko radi zremo v romantično zvezdno nebo. Kaj lepega si tudi letos zaželite !
Ta mesec, točneje v noči s 27. na 28. september bo nastopil popolni mrk Mega-Lune. Luna bo namreč natančno ob času popolnega mrka najbližje Zemlji. Okoli Zemlje namreč Luna kroži po eliptični tirnici.
Popolni Lunin mrk bo iz naših krajev viden v drugi polovici noči. Začne se z delnim mrkom okoli 2h zjutraj in bo trajal vse do jutra. Luna ob popolnem mrku sveti rjavordeče, saj jo osvetljuje sončna svetloba, ki prodre skozi Zemljino atmosfero, skozi katero se lomi.
Luna in njeni mrki imajo že sicer zelo močan astrološki vpliv, zdaj pa bo Luna Zemlji še najbliže. Zanimivo bo slišati, kaj napovedujejo astrologi ob tej vplivni astrološki konstalaciji ...
Preživeli smo še en "konec sveta". Davi smo imeli v Sloveniji srečo z vremenom. V Ljubljani smo imeli ob 4h, ko se je Luna popolnoma ovila v rjavo-rdečo barvo, popolnoma umito nebo. In mrk je bil viden vse do njenega zahoda v že osvetljenem jutru ...
Danes, dve minuti pred peto popoldne je prišlo do popolne blokade frekvenc radijskega dolgega in kratkega vala nad območjem zahodnega Atlantika. Vzrok je bila močna eksplozija CME iz območja peg AR 2422 na Soncu, ki je prav zdaj obrnjeneno proti Zemlji. Čez približno dva dni zato lahko pričakujemo povečan geomagnetni vpliv na Zemlji.
ZA AVTOBUS VELIK ASTEROID 2015 SK7 JE 22. SEPTEMBRA ŠVIGNIL MIMO ZEMLJE NA VIŠINI, MANJŠI OD VIŠINE SATELITOV
Bus-Sized Asteroid Passed Between Satellites and Earth
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Published on Sep 27, 2015
Astronomers spotted an asteroid this week after it had flown past Earth on a course that took it so close to the planet it was below the orbits of some satellites.
The bus-sized space rock (25 feet) flew by Earth
a mere 29,500 km away.This distance is around one tenth the distance of the moon from the Earth.
The asteroid passed just under the orbits of geostationary satellites, which at 22,300 miles (36,000 kilometers) altitude are the highest man-made objects circling Earth.
Most other satellites, along with the International Space Station, circle the planet at just a few hundred miles up.
The space rock approached Earth from near the Sun and so would have been nearly impossible to detect prior to close passage.
Astronomers are aware of this significant blind spot for asteroids that approach Earth while in the glare of the Sun.
Only a space telescope could detect such objects before they arrive.
Over the last few decades, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the risk of a giant space rock crashing into the planet.
While the danger is very real as evidenced by the 2013
Chelyabinsk incident near misses are actually pretty common.
NASA scientists estimate that around 20 known asteroids pass very close to the Earth every year.
Z večih predelov srednje Azije so včeraj opazili neznani leteči predmet. Na netu je tudi nekaj posnetkov. Tale je posnet iz Tibeta (Lhasa):
Ta posnetek pa je iz Irana:
Čas osvetlitve obeh posnetkov je približno pol minute. Gibajoči predmet je v tem času na posnetku "narisal črto" na sicer zvezdnato ozadje.
Komentar avtorja slike, posnete iz Irana:
"it apears between S and SW, moving overhead and set around north!
details: 30sec exposure
Lahko bi šlo za kakšno tajno izstrelitev, lahko za padec kakega odsluženega tajnega satelita ali asteroida - z razlago se NASA še ni odzvala, čeprav so slike objavljene na spaceweather.com, ki velja za "bolj resno" astronomsko stran ...
... še komentar avtorja prve slike, posnete iz Tibeta:
"Whats the object in the sky? A UFO or a Rocket trail? On the night of October 8th, I captured this celestial object quickly moved from northwest to northeast at 14:17 UTC on 29°45 33N 91°28 34 E. If you see the closer view, you will find the UFO have lots of parts. The UFO was also captured in other part of China, including Xinjiang and Tianjin province."
Na Spaceweather.com so danes objavili, da so opazovalci iz srednje Azije v noči z 8. na 9. oktober očitno opazovali - in posneli utirjanje vohunskega satelita v lasti "Naval Ocean Surveillance System" (NOSS), služil pa naj bi ameriški vojski za odkrivanje radarjev na morju.
Takole so napisali na svoji prvi strani:
UFO MYSTERY SOLVED:
On Oct. 8th, sky watchers in Asia witnessed a mysterious apparition: a number of point-like objects flew through the night sky accompanied, in some cases, by a luminous nebula. "The 'UFO' had lots of parts," says Jeff Dai, who photographed it moving over the Ganden Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet.
"It was also seen in the Xinjiang and Tianjin provinces of China," he adds. "Was it a UFO or a rocket?"
According to satellite expert Ted Molczan, it was a rocket. Or rather, a spy satellte.
He explains: "The sightings are related to the Thursday's launch of NOSS 3-7, [a pair of surveillance satellites belonging to the National Reconnaissance Office]. The lower, solid streak in Dia's photo was left by the NOSS payloads. The upper, bright streak is the Centaur that deployed the NOSS into their 63.4 deg, 1100 x 1200 km orbit. The Centaur appears to have been in the midst of the first of two burns to manoeuvre its orbit."
About an hour and a half later, a similar photo was taken by Ehsan Rostamizadeh from Iran.
"The solid track is the Centaur," says Molczan. "The wide, nebulous streak is the plume from the Centaur's fuel dump, which probably was completed a short time before the photo was taken."
The spy satellites are now in orbit. They are latest additions to the Naval Ocean Surveillance System (NOSS). Circling Earth in pairs and triplets, NOSS satellites are used by the US Navy to pinpoint radar and other electronic transmissions from ships at sea.