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Space Junk Expected To Hit Wales
« on: September 24, 2011, 01:27 »
Scientists have predicted that the ROSAT satellite (which is likely to fall to Earth within the next few weeks) will land in Wales.  Conservationists have expressed their consternation, fearing the impact will cause millions of pounds of improvements.
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Re: Space Junk Expected To Hit Wales
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2011, 09:22 »
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Re: Space Junk Expected To Hit Wales
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2011, 10:59 »
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Re: Space Junk Expected To Hit Wales
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2011, 11:13 »
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Re: Space Junk Expected To Hit Wales
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2011, 22:18 »
ROSAT was one of the best success stories of the nineties and was hardly ever out of the news.  It discovered 150,000 new X-ray objects in the sky and identified the enigmatic object Geminga.  It would be an asset to any garden!   :D
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Re: Space Junk Expected To Hit Wales
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2011, 10:53 »
indeed, an epic telescope.. and Brum made one of the cameras... http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/instrument/rosat.html
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Re: Space Junk Expected To Hit Wales
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2011, 18:51 »
The UK is excellent at making cameras for space telescopes.   8-)
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Re: Space Junk Expected To Hit Wales
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2011, 19:45 »
indeed.
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