Early morning of November 17 will have a wonderful display in the sky, with a strong showing of the Leonid Meteor Shower. This year’s meteor shower will look all the more better because of no interference from the moon, as November 16 is the new moon, so the skies will be dark and even the faint meteor streaks will be visible.
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On Indian Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khans birthday, an Australian Fan of his, every year buys a piece of moon  for him !

Shahrukh confirms, “Yes, an Australian lady buys a little land on the moon for me every year on my birthday. She has been buying it for a while now and I get these certificates from the Lunar Republic Society.”

SRK says he has met his fan and she will be in touch with him thru emails “She writes me colourful emails (in the sense one line is red, one is blue and so on). I feel blessed to have the love of so many people worldwide.”

According to online lunar real estate agency, http://www.lunarregistry.com/, the Sea of Tranquility is the most sought  after address on the moon.

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NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

All told, the flight test lasted about six minutes: the launch from the newly modified Launch Pad 39B, a two-minute powered flight, and then a splashdown of the rocket’s booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange. (more…)

NASA’s  new Ares I-X  test rocket is on the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in preparation for its debut launch scheduled for October 27.

The Ares I-X  is a prototype for the Ares 1 rocket NASA plans to use to launch its shuttle successor, the Orion spacecraft. The flight test will provide NASA with an opportunity to test and prove flight characteristics, hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I.

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Want to see the Orionid meteor shower?

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Ever wonder if there is water on the moon?

NASA does.

In fact, NASA is so curious that it’s going to “bomb” the moon tomorrow morning in hopes of creating a debris cloud that can be analyzed for water content.

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The Perseid meteor shower is happening tonight between midnight to 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12. It will be visible in most of North America.

Late Tuesday night is an option as well.

The Perseids are bits of debris from the Comet Swift-Tuttle. Every year around August the Earth passes through these debris streams.

“They are typically fast, bright and occasionally leave persistent trains,” says a SPACE.com Columnist. “And every once in a while, a Perseid fireball will blaze forth, bright enough to be quite spectacular and more than capable to attract attention even in bright moonlight.”

God has a show in store for tonight for those who are up or wish to stay up. Remember, to give credit where credit is due.

The best times to watch:

1. between midnight and dawn Wednesday

2. 4am-5am EST.

3. 1-2am PST

4. After daybreak in Europe.

Scientists get a lot of respect. Well deserved for the most part.

There are lots of people around me who are. Extremely knowledgeable folk. You can’t swing a dead cat at my church without hitting a PhD and we have less than 50 people in the building.

My son is going to be a scientist – grad school, physiology and so on.

Even with all the scientists, professional and otherwise, astronomer-types, an amateur stargazer was the one who found the  ’scar’ on Jupiter.

The guess is a  large comet or asteroid has slammed into Jupiter. It created a hole the size of Earth. And if Earth doesn’t clean up its act, we are likely to get sucked into that hold.

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A small asteroid (2008 TC3) several feet in diameter will enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan and head for the Red Sea next Tuesday, Oct 14th, says NASA. The event will occur at 5:46am local time and is expected to produce some natural fireworks.

“We estimate objects this size enter Earth’s atmosphere once every few months,” said a spokesman of the Near-Earth Object Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “The unique aspect of this event is that it is the first time we have observed an impacting object during its final approach.”

It is expected to become an extremely bright fireball. It was first detected by the Mount Lemon telescope of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey early Monday and near the Earth Object Observation Program it’s called “Space Guard.”

This reminds me of the lawyer in a hospital who woke up one morning to see a fiery sunrise through the window and began to scream “the world’s on fire, the world’s on fire.” Indeed, lawyers worry about whether they will burn or not.

Perhaps we need to be concerned about the ultimate outcome of our planet, too, before it comes on fire. What do you think?

Image courtesy of Pranav Singh