Meteorites from Meteor Crater, Ariz. (left), and Odessa, Texas (right), are from David Abbou's personal collection.
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LOOK UP for several minutes on any clear night, and you'll probably see a few flashes of light streaking across the sky. These are commonly called shooting stars, but they are actually meteors burning up in our atmosphere. Meteors are rocks from space ranging in size from sand grains to small asteroids, and most are vaporized in our atmosphere before they can reach Earth's surface.
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Strange visitor | Columnists | grandrapidsmn.com
Scientists did in fact check to see if Oumuamua was emitting any sort of radio signals or other emissions that would be consistent with an intelligently designed object, but found none. It was 'radio silent'. Most scientists now believe it was just an incredibly rare occurrence that an object created in a far distant star system managed to find its way to our vicinity.
At first glance this seems like an incredibly long shot. The space between stars is so huge that the chances of another object coming even remotely close from anywhere other than our solar system is incredibly small. It would be comparable to hitting a coffee cup with a marble from a billion miles away. So it is easy to imagine that this had to be some sort of probe sent on a deliberately calculated mission to study the sun and the planets.
NASA releases photos that show our solar system in weird shape | Technology News,The Indian
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists have developed a new prediction about the shape of the bubble that surrounds our solar system. This has been made possible after the data collected from a model that was developed using various NASA missions.
Earlier, scientists thought that the shape of our heliosphere that travels through space as it orbits around the centre of the galaxy is similar to that of a comet with a round leading edge with a long tail trailing behind.
Astronomers May Have Identified The Biggest Impact Structure in Our Solar System
It's the largest and most massive moon in the Solar System. It's the only Solar System moon that generates its own magnetic field . It has the most liquid water of any Solar System body. And now, scientists have discovered, it may have the largest impact structure ever identified.
Astronomers have found that the tectonic troughs known as furrows, thought to be the oldest geological features on Ganymede, form a series of concentric rings up to 7,800 kilometres (4,847 miles) across, as though something had slammed into the moon.
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Cairo council OKs rooftop solar panels but not ground systems | Local News | timesenterprise.com
CAIRO — Cairo City Council members voted to approve an ordinance that regulates the use of solar panels within city limits.
"What this does is it allows solar energy to be put on roofs, but not as ground installations except on agricultural or (industrial) properties," said Mayor Howard Thrower.
The ordinance, which went into effect September 1, modifies existing ordinances to specify that ground-mounted solar energy systems are not permitted in residential zones. City officials say the ground-mounted systems, which the ordinance defines as solar energy systems that are "structurally mounted to the ground and (do) not qualify as an Integrated (solar energy system)," are too large and unsightly for residential neighborhoods.
Space discoveries that will blow your mind | Latest Headlines | statesville.com
The size of the universe is hard to fathom, and it's expanding even faster than scientists originally thought. While humans will never map out the entirety of space, that doesn't stop them from exploring it. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been around since 1958. Japan, Russia, and France—just to name a few countries—all have space agencies dedicated to exploring the final frontier.
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Jupiter’s moon Ganymede shows hints of Solar System’s largest impact –
Researchers have found what may be remnants of the solar system’s largest impact structure, ancient concentric troughs that extend across almost the entire surface of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
Re-analysing images captured by NASA’s Galileo Jupiter orbiter and the Voyager 1 and 2 flyby missions, researchers from Kobe University and Japan’s National Institute of Technology Oshima College have identified concentric rings in patches of dark terrain that appear to be centred around a single point.
Australian Solar Systems Interest Index – September 2020
The latest auSSII report provides a snapshot showing what Australians were shopping for in solar power and battery systems during August.
As in June and July, August saw nearly 83% of prospective solar buyers with a system size in mind wanting 6kW capacity or bigger. While July was the first month we saw 6kW+ just eclipsing 6kW, 6kW took the lead again in August – but only just.
Interest in small systems (3kW and 4kW) dropped back significantly from 5% of all quote requests with a capacity selected in July to just 3% in August.
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