Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Did you know there are 33 thousand asteroids and 20 new comets are aimed at Earth

Infrared Space Telescope WISE found in the solar system, new dangerous objects. Did you know there are 33 thousand asteroids and 20 new comets are aimed at Earth?Infrared Telescope Facility WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) was launched by NASA in December 2009. He was supposed to review the sky at infrared wavelengths. In order that the telescope could find even the coldest objects of its detectors were cooled by liquid hydrogen. Stockpile was only enough hydrogen for ten months.During this time the telescope had to do more than 1.8 million images of the sky in the infrared range. Its main objective was to study the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. A few days ago NASA specialists reported on the results of the project WISE.Scientists say it's especially important to learn more about nea...
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[Source: News Weird Magazine]

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