Russian tourists killed in Turkey (video)
At least 16 Russian tourists were killed in the southwestern Turkish region of Antalya after a bus of mostly Russian tourists fell into a river, the Russian consul in Antalya said on Tuesday.
Local media reported that the incident occurred at 5 a.m. local time [02:00 GMT]. The bus was en route from the resort of Alanya to the town of Pamukkale when it veered off the road into the Aksu River 15 meters below.
The Russian consul in Antalya said 25 Russians were also injured in the crash. Read more
Polish president died in air crash (video)
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and another 131 people traveling with him to commemorate mass killing of Polish officers during World War Two died on Saturday when his plane crashed on landing in western Russia.
“On Saturday, President Kaczynski’s Tu-154 airplane crashed when landing near the town of Pechorsk, Smolensk region, in heavy fog,” Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Russian Prosecutor General’s Investigations Committee said. “There were 132 people on board the plane, including the president and his spouse.” Read more
Speed Cameras (video)
Road speed limits are used in most countries to regulate the speed of road vehicles. Speed limits may define maximum, minimum or variable speed limits or no speed limit and are normally indicated using a Traffic sign. Speed limits are commonly set and enforced by the legislative bodies of nations or provincial governments.
The term speed trap can refer to a point where a speed limit is strictly enforced by Read more
This doomsday …
People should not worry about solar storm that is expected to peak in 2012 because the incident would not extreme, detikcom online news quoted an official at Indonesian space agency on Friday.
Head of Science Utilization Center of Atmosphere and Climate at the National Flight and Space Agency Thomas Djamaludin told reporters in Bandung of West Java province that solar storm is an activity that keeps continuing at the sun. However, when the activity reaches its peak, storm could emerge several times in one day.
He also said that scientists are not sure that solar storm in 2012 would direct to the Earth whose distance about 150 million kilometers from the sun. Read more
Crash video…(flame car)
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What crashed Iranian plane …
A search has begun for the black boxes from a passenger plane that crashed in northern Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board, the country’s ISNA news agency reported.
The Russian-made Tupolev airliner was en route from Tehran to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, when it crashed 16 minutes after takeoff, on a farm in the province of Qazvin, some 200 km (124 miles) from the Iranian capital.
“Army units have begun a search for the black boxes from the crashed plane” the vice-governor of the region told ISNA.
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The Communist Party of Russia has expressed its outrage.
Members of a number of Russian political parties, including the communists and Yabloko, will gather in St. Petersburg at the weekend to protest against the bombing of a statue of Lenin, which was dismantled overnight.
The monument to the communist leader, near St. Petersburg’s Finlyandsky railway station, was badly damaged following an explosion on Wednesday that caused a large crater and a hole in the statue.
Authorities ordered Read more
FedEx plane crashes.(video)
A FedEx cargo plane crash-landed and burst into flames early Monday morning at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, killing the two U.S. crew members aboard and causing widespread flight disruption at Japan’s largest international gateway.
Transport ministry and other investigators believe the accident was partly caused by strong winds buffeting the MD-11 aircraft as it attempted to land at around 6:50 a.m. Winds of up to 72 kilometers per hour were blowing in the vicinity of the airport at the time. Two men were rescued from the cockpit at around 8 a.m. but were confirmed dead at a nearby hospital.
The police said they confirmed with FedEx that the crew members of the flight were Kevin Kyle Mosley, 54, the pilot, and Anthony Stephen Pino, 49, the co-pilot-both U.S. citizens. Read more
Space junk.
Humankind has created a major problem: space debris, now threatening long-term space travel. So much space junk has accumulated that the international community must take urgent action to prevent major accidents at high altitude and on Earth. Space debris denote manmade objects in orbit around Earth that no longer serve any useful purpose but which endanger operational satellites, primarily manned spacecraft. In some cases, space junk may threaten Earth during reentry because some fragments do not burn up completely and can hit houses, industrial facilities and transport networks. Right now, 40 million fragments of space debris weighing several thousand metric tons circle Earth. In mid-February, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) reaffirmed the importance of guiding principles to prevent the formation of space debris for all nations. On December 17, 2007, the UN General Assembly passed its Resolution 62/101 stipulating recommendations on enhancing the practice of states and international intergovernmental organizations in registering space objects. Concerted international efforts and the dangers of hypothetical space debris crashes will make it possible for humankind to cope with this problem in the long term. However, Earth is still threatened by asteroids and various comets. Scientists are particularly concerned about the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis, which will fly close to Earth in 2029. Russian astronomer Sergei Smirnov said the asteroid with a diameter of 600 meters spelled nothing good for geostationary telecommunications platforms, due to be launched by that time. In 2012, Apophis will pass close enough to Earth, enabling scientists to more accurately calculate its 2029 orbit. Astronomers estimate that at least one out of the 100,000 small planets or asteroids, discovered since 1801, annually approaches Earth. Moreover, U.S. scientists have recently solved a discrepancy which may spell extremely negative consequences for our civilization. It is common knowledge that a new comet annually enters the solar system. Judging by the average lifespan of comets, about 3,000 of them fly through the solar system each year. In reality, astronomers register only 25 comets. Scientists seem to have solved this contradiction. This discrepancy between theoretical calculations and practical observations is explained by the fact that many comets cannot be detected by optical systems. It appears that such objects are created when a celestial body’s nucleus loses most of its water due to evaporation. This makes new comets too dark to be observed through optical telescopes and a potential threat to planet Earth. The latest studies of terrestrial and lunar craters show that most of them were gouged by comets. This news is not very encouraging either.
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Satellite collision debris may hamper space launches.
February 25, 2009 by laimisk
Filed under Sci & Tech
The debris from a recent collision involving two communications satellites could pose a serious threat for future launches of spacecraft into a geostationary orbit. One of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian Cosmos-2251 satellite launched in 1993 and believed to be defunct collided on February 10 about 800 kilometers (500 miles) above Siberia. Future launches will have to be adjusted with regard to the fact that the debris (from the collision) has spread over an 800-km area and will gather at a common orbit in 5-6 years. That the debris would add to the already worrying amount of “space junk” surrounding the planet, and would make the launches of spacecraft to orbit an even more complicated task than it is now. NASA earlier said that about 19,000 objects are present in the low and high orbit around the Earth, including about a thousand objects larger than 10 centimeters (4 inches) that were created by the satellite collision. Geostationary orbits at the altitude of approximately 36,000 km (22,000 miles) above sea level are very popular for the launch of telecoms satellites because they cause a satellite to appear stationary with respect to a fixed point on the rotating Earth, therefore providing stable communication links with ground facilities.
