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Monthly Archives: December 2008
NASA 2008 Year in Review
NASA has a great end-of-year review on their website nasa.gov. The space agency achieved some great accomplishments in 2008: A Mars landing with the Phoenix Lander, stunning photographs from other planets in our solar system, major additions to the International Space Station, a joint lunar science mission with India, progressed toward the goal of returning astronauts to the moon, and celebrated two important anniversaries.
NASA celebrated the tenth year in operation of the International Space Station (ISS), and also celebrated their fifty years of operation as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Apollo lunar program also hit the forty year [...]
Geminids a washout
The Geminid meteor shower is usually the best show of the year as far as meteor showers go. But a full moon will pretty much wash out most of this year’s meteors during the peak of the Geminids show.
However, you should still be able to see the two bright stars not too far from tonight’s full moon. Castor and Pollux belong to the constellation Gemini, which is the radiant of the Geminid shower.
Read more about the Geminid meteors…
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