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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Jacinta Bowler
A decades-old Soviet spacecraft originally bound for Venus will crash down to Earth within the next 48 hours, according to experts. They've been tracking the progress of Kosmos 482 — a 500-kilogram failed probe that was launched 53 years ago. Tracking a space object that's hurtling around Earth every hour and a half is no easy task, but predicting where it will land days ahead of time is almost impossible, according to Bill Barrett, an orbital expert from Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Jacinta Bowler
Early risers are in for a treat, with one of the best meteor showers of the Southern Hemisphere about to peak later in the week. The shower is visible from anywhere in Australia and, if you know where to look, you might catch up to 22 meteors an hour. This year will be particularly good because the Moon won't be visible when the meteors — called the Eta Aquariids — start streaking across the night sky.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Jacinta Bowler
For 18 years, Wisconsin man Tim Friede has injected increasing amounts of venom into his body from the world's most deadly snakes. His strange quest has today yielded results, with a team of US researchers claiming to have created "the most broadly effective" snake antivenom to date.
Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 expected to crash back to Earth next week. Here's what you need to know
1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Jacinta Bowler
A Soviet-era spacecraft that never made it to Venus more than 50 years ago is finally about to plunge back to Earth. That's according to academic and satellite watcher Marco Langbroek from Delft Technical University in the Netherlands, who has been keeping an eye on the Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos 482 for the past few years. So, as we get closer to the deadline, here are five quick questions on Kosmos 482, and what you need to know about the falling spacecraft.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Jacinta Bowler
Most days, Michael Mattiazzo logs into his computer and looks through public data from a spacecraft orbiting the Sun. He's not an astronomer by trade, and he's not interested in our stellar neighbour. Instead, he's hunting comets. Michael has been doing this for more than two decades, and when asked why, he's delightfully honest. "It's the kudos," he laughs.
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