Asteroids – Forget About DAWN – play Asteroids online September 29, 2007
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OLD.
Cheesy.
RETRO.
Asteroids is a video game classic n o matter how you slice it…
Don’t bother trying to find your old Atari 2600 or one of those lame Jacks Atari TV plug in things…you can now play Asteroids online..with tonnes of people for free..
Check it out for yourself
A New DAWN For NASA September 27, 2007
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took of this morning Cape Canaveral on its way to check out a pair of asteriods.
NASA itself has called the extremely efficient space craft – The Prius of space travel –
“Dawn has risen, and the spacecraft is healthy,” said the mission’s project manager Keyur Patel of JPL in a statement. “About this time tomorrow [Friday morning], we will have passed the moon’s orbit.”
Dawn’s 4.8-billion-kilometer (3-billion-mile) odyssey includes exploration of asteroid Vesta in 2011 and the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015. These two icons of the asteroid belt have been witness to much of our solar system’s history. By using Dawn’s instruments to study both asteroids, scientists more accurately can compare and contrast the two. Dawn’s science instrument suite will measure elemental and mineral composition, shape, surface topography, and tectonic history, and will also seek water-bearing minerals. In addition, the Dawn spacecraft and how it orbits Vesta and Ceres will be used to measure the celestial bodies’ masses and gravity fields.
Sounds like one heck of a trip to me.
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