BULETIN ASTRONOMI

Edisi 15 : 16 Oktober 2013 SEPATAH KATA : KJ SAINS, KU FIZIK DAN PENSYARAH FIZIK INGIN MENGUCAPKAN SELAMAT MENYAMBUT HARI RAYA AIDILADHA KEPADA SEMUA WARGA KMM. Info 1: Latest Headlines 4 October 2013:

Astronauts Exploring the Depths

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Three cavenauts during ESAs 2013 underground astronaut training course CAVES. CAVES stands for Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills. The two-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams in an environment where safety is critical in caves. (Credit: ESAV. Crobu)

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Oct. 4, 2013 Usually, ESA sends astronauts to outer space, but last week six astronauts from around the world spent six days underground to get a taste of working together in extreme conditions. ESA's caves training in Sardinia, Italy ended with a
debriefing, with the astronauts claiming, "This is some of the best, arguably the best, spaceflight 'analogue' training we have received." Veteran and rookie astronauts worked together and learned from each other on how to conduct science and survive in isolation while living disconnected from aErth's normal day and night cycle -- just like on the International Space Station. CAVES is not a simulation but a real expedition and the only expedition training on offer to involve astronauts from all Space Station partners.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. IMAM AL-GHAZALI

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Info 2: Latest Headlines 9 October 2013

Astronomers Stumped by 'Flyby Anomaly': Unexplained Variation in Spacecraft Speeds

NASA's Juno spacecraft approaching Earth on 9 October 2013 (artist's rendering). NASA's deep-space probe will zip past to within 561 km of Earth at 19:21 GMT as it picks up a gravitational speed boost to help it reach Jupiter in 2016. During the high-speed event, radio signals from the 3225 kg Juno will be carefully recorded by ESA tracking stations in Argentina and Australia. (Credit: NASA) Oct. 9, 2013 A mystery that has stumped scientists for decades might be one step closer to solution after ESA tracking stations carefully record signals from NASA's Juno spacecraft as it swings by Earth today. NASA's deep-space probe will zip past to within 561 km at 19:21 GMT as it picks up a gravitational speed boost to help it reach Jupiter in 2016. During the high-speed event, radio signals from the 2870 kg Juno will be carefully recorded by ESA tracking stations in Argentina and Australia. Engineers hope that the new measurements will unravel the decades-old 'flyby anomaly' -- an unexplained variation in spacecraft speeds detected during some swingbys. "We detected the flyby anomaly during Rosetta's first Earth visit in March 2005," says Trevor Morley, flight dynamics expert at ESA's ESOC operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany. "Frustratingly, no anomaly was seen during Rosetta's subsequent Earth flybys in 2007 and 2011. This is a real cosmic mystery that no one has yet figured out."