Track Live Satellites Real Time

April 30, 2007 at 5:49 pm · Filed under Interesting

This is one interesting site lets you track almost any satellite traveling around the globe. It'll show you all the location details like latitude and longitude along with the satellite detail. Real time image tracking is provided by NASA. The site is powered by Ajax technology providing you streamed experience of tracking the satellites.

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After a while

April 29, 2007 at 5:44 pm · Filed under Interesting

I always browse through internet for interesting and useful stuff. Just today I found this motivational passage which might motivate you to go through your life's ups and downs.

After a while…

After a while you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn that love doesn't mean possession
and company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build your roads today
because tomorrows ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
and you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn…

Written by Veronica A. Shoffstall

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Earth II Found

April 28, 2007 at 5:39 pm · Filed under Interesting, News

The first planet that could support life as we know it outside our solar system has been discovered.

A team of European astronomers say they have detected a rocky world, possibly only 50 per cent larger than the Earth, circling a small red star called Gliese 581, 20.5 light years away in the constellation Libra.

What makes the discovery so important is that the planet orbits in what astronomers call the "Goldilocks zone" - where makes it neither too hot, nor too cold for life.

Astronomers have found more than 200 planets circling other stars, but, until now, all have been unsuitable for life because they are either massive gas balls, resembling Jupiter, that circle scorchingly close to their parent, stars, or have eccentric orbits that take them out into the bitterly cold depths of space.

The newly found "super-Earth," about five times more massive than our planet, is 14 times closer to its star than the Earth is from the sun. As a result, its year lasts only 13 Earth days. It has been named , named 581 c.

However, because the star is only a third the mass of our sun, it is also much cooler.

Astronomers estimate that the world's surface temperature would therefore be between 0 and 40 degrees.

"Water would thus be liquid," one of the discoverers, Stephane Udry, from Switzerland's Geneva Observatory, said.

"Models predict that the planet should be either rocky - like our Earth - or covered with oceans."

(This artist's rendering, released by European Southern Observatory, shows the planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581. Photo: AP/ESO)

Source: Earth II hunt: planet found - Science - Specials - smh.com.au

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