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New Director UC Observatories

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Janet Napolitano announced President Claire Max New Director UC Observatories Adaptive Optics  http://www.ucolick.org/home/index.html

With binoculars, Juno in the Night Sky is currently visible

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Juno, a potato-shaped rock can be seen crawling through the Crab, not far from Jupiter this month. It is about 8th magnitude, With binoculars, Juno in the Night Sky is currently visible Juno will pass close to M44, an open cluster known as the Beehive, and M67, another open star cluster

Pioneer 10 first mission to the planet Jupiter

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In the 1980s it became apparent that a mysterious force was slowing them down a little more than should have been expected from gravity of the Sun and planets unknown planet or asteroid out there tugging on the spacecraft? The Pioneer missions were the first to send spacecrafts through the asteroid belt and the first to send detailed, up-close images Pioneer 10 first mission to the planet Jupiter communications were lost with Pioneer 10 on January 23, 2003, NASA decided in 1964 to experiment with launching a pair of probes to the outer Solar System so this happen after scientist James A. Van Allen, worked out the scientific rationale for exploring the outer planets. Toward full phase. The moon will turn full on February 3, 2015.

Tanegashima

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The island of Tanegashima, located Southern tip of Kyushu in Kagoshima is one of the finest surf destinations in Japan. MILITAR FANTASY Patriot antiquated "A near-mythical flintlock gun, the master work of a Japanese gunsmith. It is said that when fired in a certain place, there is a chance that a divine wind will blow. The Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) was established in 1969, when the original National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was formed. It is the largest rocket-launch complex in Japan (9,700,000 square meters) "Kiku" START in 1975 KIKU finished April 28,1982 In 1975 several notable events happened in spaceflight such as the launch to Mars of the Viking orbiter/landers missions, the joint Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, and the Venera 9 Venus mission. Viking 1 was launched on 20 August 1975 and Viking 2 was launched 9 September 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz saw an end to the space race with the USA and USSR. The mission was launched between 15 July...

Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres

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The Dawn mission was designed to study two large bodies in the asteroid belt in order to answer questions about the formation of the Solar System , by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Currently en route to Ceres and is expected to arrive in February 2015