A Quote by Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain



Telescopes are in some ways like time machines...
They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past. We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of which we are formed. So if you are romantic you can say we are literally starstuff. If you're less romantic you can say we're the nuclear waste from the fuel that makes stars shine. We've made so many advances in our understanding. A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our Earth, and the layout of the continents. We are now just learning the dimensions and ingredients of our entire cosmoc, and can at last make some sense of our cosmic habitat.



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Friday, June 3, 2011

Meteor Lights Up Georgia Sky

A Man-Size Meteor From Comet Lit Up Georgia Sky yesterday...
The 6-foot-wide (1.8-meter) space rock barrelled into Earth's atmosphere at 10:47 p.m. EDT on May 20 (0247 GMT on May 21), about 66 miles (106 kilometers) above the city of Macon, Ga. Two NASA all-sky cameras, both located in northwest Georgia, tracked the resulting meteor and captured it on video.

Just a thought though!

All of this is cool.. But we have advanced so much in space technology that NASA should be able to build a "go getter" space shuttle that goes outside of earths atmosphere, breaks down the meteor and gets a part of the meteor safely down to earth. I am sure that there would have been an era of space history lost when the meteor burned down to ashes, when it entered earths atmosphere.

Yesh.
Posted through my Iphone.

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