wessman
August 27th, 2002, 05:04 PM
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| Yale Students Capture Asteroid On Film |
| from the well-digital-film-anyhow dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday August 23, @03:34 (space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/0135214 |
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netringer writes: "[0]Two Yale University students used the WIYN
0.9-meter telescope at [1]Kitt Peak National Observatory to capture a
series of still images of asteroid 2002 NY40 on August 15-16, two nights
before it made a close flyby of Earth. The still images were made into a
cool digital [2]movie that shows the asteroid streaking across the sky
over a period of two hours. According to an [3]AP story the students were
supposed to looking at some binary stars when they decided to look a the
asteroid instead."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/23/0135214
Links:
0. http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0107.html
1. http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr02/pr0207.html
2. http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr02/images/asteroid_2002ny40.mov
3. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/08/22/asteroid.movie/index.html
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| The Square Kilometer Array |
| from the lots-of-windex dept. |
| posted by michael on Sunday August 25, @08:01 (space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/25/0432248 |
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[0]EyesWideOpen writes "A very ambitious project to build the [1]world's
largest radio telescope, named the Square Kilometer Array or SKA, is in
its early design stages. As its name suggests the SKA will be one square
kilometer in size [2]if it gets built. The SKA consortium (consisting of
Cal Tech, Cornell, SETI, the Max Planck Institute and Beijing
Astronomical Observatory to name a few) hopes to build the telescope by
2010. "If they succeed the SKA will be so big and precise it will jump
the world's current best, the American Very Large Array in New Mexico, by
a factor of 100, both in sensitivity and resolution." It's interesting to
note that the project is based on technology that will only exist in
three, five or seven years -- to account for data rates of tens to
hundreds of terabytes per second and storage in the petabytes -- so
they're counting on [3]Moore's law to hold true."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/25/0432248
Links:
0. http://cams89&hotmail,com
1. http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/SKA/
2. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54679,00.html
3. http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm
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| Yale Students Capture Asteroid On Film |
| from the well-digital-film-anyhow dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday August 23, @03:34 (space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/0135214 |
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netringer writes: "[0]Two Yale University students used the WIYN
0.9-meter telescope at [1]Kitt Peak National Observatory to capture a
series of still images of asteroid 2002 NY40 on August 15-16, two nights
before it made a close flyby of Earth. The still images were made into a
cool digital [2]movie that shows the asteroid streaking across the sky
over a period of two hours. According to an [3]AP story the students were
supposed to looking at some binary stars when they decided to look a the
asteroid instead."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/23/0135214
Links:
0. http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0107.html
1. http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr02/pr0207.html
2. http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr02/images/asteroid_2002ny40.mov
3. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/08/22/asteroid.movie/index.html
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| The Square Kilometer Array |
| from the lots-of-windex dept. |
| posted by michael on Sunday August 25, @08:01 (space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/25/0432248 |
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[0]EyesWideOpen writes "A very ambitious project to build the [1]world's
largest radio telescope, named the Square Kilometer Array or SKA, is in
its early design stages. As its name suggests the SKA will be one square
kilometer in size [2]if it gets built. The SKA consortium (consisting of
Cal Tech, Cornell, SETI, the Max Planck Institute and Beijing
Astronomical Observatory to name a few) hopes to build the telescope by
2010. "If they succeed the SKA will be so big and precise it will jump
the world's current best, the American Very Large Array in New Mexico, by
a factor of 100, both in sensitivity and resolution." It's interesting to
note that the project is based on technology that will only exist in
three, five or seven years -- to account for data rates of tens to
hundreds of terabytes per second and storage in the petabytes -- so
they're counting on [3]Moore's law to hold true."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/25/0432248
Links:
0. http://cams89&hotmail,com
1. http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/SKA/
2. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54679,00.html
3. http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm
:sw