Astronomy & Space - September 2006

2006-09-26 15:12:12 · 11 answers · asked by jaemin 1

my friend told me that pluto has been takin out of the listings as a planet.... is this true she said it was on the news??

2006-09-26 15:04:45 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Where they launched two satellites with the most perfect gyroscopes ever built to measure if the earth's gravity affects spacetime (or something like that). Any clarifications on the experiment would be greatly appreciated.

2006-09-26 14:57:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are those inexpensive Celestron telescopes worth the $110?

2006-09-26 14:52:52 · 8 answers · asked by WheeeeWhaaaaa 4

A FEW MINS AGO WE WERE COMING HOME FROM DINER AND WE SAW A BIG LIGHT IN THE SKY IT LOOKED LIKE A FIRE BALL AND THEN WENT AWAY THEN IT CAME BACK AGAIN AND THEN WENT AWAY AGAIN WHAT WAS IT? FREAKED OUT

2006-09-26 14:07:43 · 5 answers · asked by AMY H 1

I red that the gravitational waves travel with speed of light, but it is not included in the electromagnetic spectrum. Do these waves has any frequencies as well?

2006-09-26 14:06:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-26 14:01:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some people say there is no end to space and time. If something is without end, how do we know?
ps. endless nagging from the missus don't count!

2006-09-26 13:47:21 · 16 answers · asked by Polo 7

2006-09-26 12:57:21 · 4 answers · asked by doorseeker 1

2006-09-26 12:45:52 · 30 answers · asked by Bernie M 1

2006-09-26 12:33:13 · 11 answers · asked by Atheist Eye Candy 5

2006-09-26 12:19:31 · 4 answers · asked by daisiedolphin 1

2006-09-26 11:59:07 · 12 answers · asked by yeahurcooltoo 1

2006-09-26 11:57:26 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

After the fall of USSR, it became public knowledge that the Russians had developed a massive lunar rocket at the same time as America. However, it was a huge failure. They didn’t have such powerful engines, so the Russian rocket needed 32 engines, in contast to the American’s Saturn V, which had only five enormous engines. This meant that it was an enormous task to synchronise the 32 rockets at take-off.

Their giant booster ended up blowing up on the pad, and annihilated the whole complex – blew it all away. That was the end of the moon race for the Russians.

Don’t the moon landing deniers realize because of this how the Russians would have jumped on any chance to call the American effort a setup? They never did, even though they were beaten into the ground as far as getting men on the moon.

2006-09-26 11:55:58 · 6 answers · asked by nick s 6

Those who think the moon landings were faked often, because of their ignorance, put forward the fact that we haven’t been back in over 30 years. Well, here basically is why.

The two essential ingredients for getting to the moon were:
a)the need to have a booster rocket big enough to take the heavy payload of men and their life-supports to land on the moon.
b)The need for a light-weight lander to be able to get down from lunar orbit and get back up again

These requirements were satisfied at the cost of billions plus years and years of development by the best scientists, engineers and technicians in the world. The giant Saturn V rocket and the LEM, the moon lander, were no longer required after the Apollo missions were scrapped. So, that is why they are unable to go back to the moon. The transport is not available. It would have to be re-developed.

Moon landing deniers – please grow up. Read about it. Opinion without knowledge is the height of stupidity.

2006-09-26 11:53:35 · 10 answers · asked by nick s 6

2006-09-26 11:33:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here's why, but I welcome other answers:

1.400,000 people worked on the American manned space program leading up to the moon missions – how do you fool all these technical people?
2.There were 27 manned missions from 1961 to 1972. 6 Mercury missions, 10 Gemini missions, and 11 Apollo missions.
3.Four Apollo manned missions preceded the moon landings, with 3 of them actually going to and orbiting the moon.
4.Why can’t we do it now? – quite simply, there is no Saturn V rocket. It needed the phenomenal power of this giant 360 foot rocket to get a manned probe beyond Earth’s orbit.
5.What happened to the Apollo? – read the history. Americans were wholly caught up in the Vietnam war, with massive and violent demonstrations going on. People saw the space program as a huge waste of money when there were so many social and international problems to attend to.
6.Apollos 18-20 were cancelled because of lack of taxpayer interest.

2006-09-26 11:26:44 · 10 answers · asked by nick s 6

2006-09-26 11:09:05 · 23 answers · asked by Amar 1

2006-09-26 10:28:30 · 16 answers · asked by µMeGA WaTT 3

2006-09-26 10:23:02 · 11 answers · asked by doorseeker 1

2006-09-26 09:54:09 · 10 answers · asked by kubbingj 2

'nuclear bulge' of the Galactic Center, it something I read in an article about the Mayan Calendar and the year 2012 AD

2006-09-26 09:47:40 · 6 answers · asked by grandmahoo 1

2006-09-26 09:39:12 · 18 answers · asked by midwestbruin 3

convex, concave or a flat disc or what? And would it have the reverse effect, fling matter away from it, or nothing at all?

2006-09-26 09:19:07 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

my teacher asked me this question just wondering if anybody could help me

2006-09-26 08:56:19 · 11 answers · asked by zerophilmister 2

2006-09-26 08:28:31 · 22 answers · asked by blj 2

2006-09-26 08:27:08 · 6 answers · asked by Jason 4

Which one of the following observations would convince many Greek astronomers that our Earth does move through space?

a. Retrograde motion of Mars
b. Stellar parallax
c. Phases of Venus
d. Sunspots on the Sun
e. Ice caps on Mars

2006-09-26 08:04:03 · 14 answers · asked by Roman K 2

Imagine that one night you see Jupiter at midnight on the celestial meridian (the great circle passing through an observer’s zenith and the north and south points on the horizon). Say, 3 months later, you are outside at midnight. Where will Jupiter be with respect to the celestial meridian?
a. Jupiter will again be on the celestial meridian.
b. Jupiter will be to the East from the celestial meridian.
c. Jupiter will again be on the celestial meridian but more to the South from its position 3 months ago.
d. Jupiter will be to the West from the celestial meridian.
e. Jupiter will again be on the celestial meridian but more to the North from its position 3 months ago.

2006-09-26 08:02:31 · 3 answers · asked by Roman K 2