Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
14-07-2016
The Mysterious Fifth Force Of Nature
The Mysterious Fifth Force Of Nature
In Hungary, a group of physicists have just made an announcement that they probably have found evidence of a mysterious fifth force of nature. If the finding is confirmed, it would mean we’d need to rethink our understanding of how the Universe actually works.
Considering our current understanding of physics there are four fundamental forces. Gravity holds the planets and galaxies together, and the electromagnetic force holds us and our molecules together. At the smallest level are the two other forces: the strong nuclear force is the glue for atomic nuclei, and the weak nuclear force helps some atoms go through radioactive decay. These forces summarise physics we can observe, more or less.
These four forces are an essential part of the standard model of physics, which explain all the behavior and particles we see in the Universe.
Have scientists finally discovered the fifth force of nature?
During the previous year, Attila Krasznahorkay and his group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’s Institute for Nuclear Research in Debrecen, Hungary published a paper announcing their discovery of a mysterious fifth force, but for some reason their discovery did not meet a good media coverage.
The group discovered their new force while looking for a “dark photon,” light that only impacts dark matter. They shot protons at lithium-7 samples creating beryllium-8 nuclei, which, as it decayed, emitted pairs of electrons and positrons. Suddenly, as they observed the emitted pairs, instead of a consistent drop-off, there was a slight bump, which the researchers attributed to the creation of an unknown particle with a mass of approximately 17 MeV.
For one year nothing happened, until now when a group of theoretical physicists led by Jonathan Feng at the University of California, Irvine, looked closer a the Hungarian group’s results, and found this new force didn’t seem to break any existing laws of physics.
Scientists are aware of that a new force would not be completely unexpected. The evidence for dark matter stems primarily from observations of the velocities of galaxies within galaxy clusters.
Researchers know about its existence and that there is no empty space in the universe.
Morse Code Message On The Surface Of Mars Has Found, Message From Aliens, UFO Sighting News.
Morse Code Message On The Surface Of Mars Has Found, Message From Aliens, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: July 2016 Location of discovery: Mars I have noticed this a lot about things on Mars. There is an evenly spaced about of distance that make many things appear to be created by an intelligent hand. Just yesterday I found a closeup of rocks near the rover with just such an occurrence. Its unbelievable, and should be impossible, and yet, here it is, evidence of an alien culture in front of us. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: NASA Has Found A "Morse Code Message" On The Surface Of Mars NASA’s eyes in the Martian sky came across some odd-looking dashes and dots on the surface of the Red Planet recently, which they pointed out has an eerie similarity to Morse code. The image was taken on February 6, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been exploring Mars since 2005.
Four UFOs Over Memphis, Tennessee Following Jet On July 12, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Four UFOs Over Memphis, Tennessee Following Jet On July 12, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 12, 2016 Location of sighting: Memphis, Tennessee, USA News Source: MUFON report #77636 This is interesting. A group of metallic orbs was seen coming out of a cloud and was near a plane flying past. Perhaps the orbs were hiding and waiting for planes, so they could scan the technology. My favorite part of the eyewitness description is that he noticed the orbs come out of the cloud before he took the photo. Excellent. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I was at work when I took this photo. I work in Memphis,Tn. The warehouse is only maybe 5 miles from Memphis international Airport. I was on my lunch break from 1230 to 1 o'clock Pm. I Saw a large military cargo plane ( the kind that drops tanks out of the back with parachutes attached) taking off from the airport heading south, then turned to head east as it was taking off. The plane made a small maneuver, ( I thought to myself that the huge plane shouldn't try that at such a slow speed.) as the metallic orbs appeared out of the small clouds. I grabbed my phone to try and capture both the plane and the orbs closer together.The military plane can still be seen very well by zooming in. I stopped looking at the orbs to check the photo for both plane and orbs,GOT THEM BOTH, when I looked back to the sky I didnt see the orbs any more. Also there appears to be a bird flying close to one of the orbs. I Am including a screenshot of the details from the photo along with the photo, and map of where I work showing the airport. Enjoy. Also I have seen Chinook helicopters flying in groups of three for the past few days, just throwing that in there.
This is really strange. In the UK this week a fleet of semi trucks were seen carrying dozens of UFOs on their flatbeds. These UFOs have plastic tarps over them with Chinese writing that says, "do not move." Is it possible that the Royal Air Force is transporting prototypes of a flying disk that they made using alien technology from crashes? I think its feasible. I also have to laugh at the governments excuse...since they are calling these wind turbines. I've seen wind turbines, and they don't look anything like this. The USAF did participate in a flying disk shaped UFO back in the 1990s called Project Aurora. This may be its evolution. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com UK News states: Commuters on the A34 might have been forgiven for thinking they were in the middle of an alien invasion yesterday morning when 'flying saucers' arrived on the road. Two lorries carrying the huge saucer-shaped objects were part of a convoy which was spotted travelling past Oxford. Further investigation revealed they were parts of a wind turbine being transported. The vehicles were caught in heavy rain as they made their journey in hazardous conditions.
UFO Over New York City World Trade Center By Tourist On May 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over New York City World Trade Center By Tourist On May 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 19, 2016, but reported July 2016 Location of sighting: New York City, USA Source: MUFON #77629 Here's an interesting UFO over the World Trade Center. This UFO is unusual because it seems to have two tails, and it has a rocket like shape to it. The fact that this is over the World Trade Center shows me that aliens have a lot of interest not just in the old building, but also in the new buildings that have symbolic meaning to the country. If you go to a cultural location that has a special meaning to people, look up once in a while, you might get lucky and see a UFO. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: First of all sorry for my English writing. We were visiting WTC groundzero with my wife. I was capturing continously without focusing a spesific object. I captured many photos. In one minute I captured 3 photos consecutively. After holiday while I and my wife viewing photos we found an unknown object and it was flying above. We didn't detect it with naked eyes when we were visiting WTC. I don't belive that US Goverment lets an ordinary vechile to fly above WTC. Maybe this is an undetected vechile or it was a Made in USA UFO. In photo 1 there are colorful circles. In Photo 2 that circles are replacing and an UFO appears suddenly. In photo 3 there is no light no UFO. I want professionals to analyze the images and I am so curious about results. I was not a believer but I was ready to believe. Now I want to believe!
Policeman Sees Tall Whites In The Middle of The Field With Crop Circle Formation
Policeman Sees Tall Whites In The Middle of The Field With Crop Circle Formation
A shocking claim of a policeman made the rounds online. Several tall white aliens reportedly emerged in a newly-built crop circle in Wiltshire.
The officer, who chooses not to be named to protect his career, was off duty when strange beings emerged in the middle of a field with crop circle formation.
The man noticed an activity from a distance and stopped his car to investigate after having a strange feeling about it.
He reportedly approached the trio, which he described as taller than six feet with long blond hair. However, the trio ran away after the police officer heard the sound of static electricity. To the witness’ surprise, the three men ran away faster than any other human beings.
The officer considered the event as almost unreal, which apparently happened on July 6, 2009.
After the trio had run away, the witness drove straight back to Marlborough in Wiltshire. He later contacted paranormal experts and crop circle investigators, Andrew Russell and Colin Andrews.
Mr. Russell said that the witness initially thought there were forensic officers in the field as they were dressed in white coverall. The unusual figures seemed to be checking the crop.
The noise was still around after the trio ran away from the witness. The police officer claimed to experience a pounding headache that he could not shift afterward.
Colin is convinced to the testimony of the police officer. Colin added that he saw no reason at all why the police would make up the story. He believes that there’s too much additional information to say that the event is something in nothing with the unusual movement of the beings and the poltergeist experiences.
The experts suggest that the three were part of Tall Whites, an alien race that has been the subject of several sightings throughout the years.
Meanwhile, a Wiltshire Police spokesman refused to comment on the news because the reporting witness was off duty, making it a personal, not a police matter.
A video recently caught the attention of online UFO followers as it shows a flying saucer that seems to stalk a jet airliner. The UFO appeared from dark clouds in a video that intentionally aimed to an aircraft flying through a massive lightning storm.
The apparent disk-shaped object in the video is somewhat hiding behind clouds and traveling behind a passenger plane. The footage was captured over Italy, and the unidentified flying object showed up after a sudden flash of lightning.
Enthusiasts have been debating the connection between UFOs and atmospheric electrical phenomenon – thunder and lightning storms.
Many believe that alien ships cause lightning or are pulled to it. They suggest that UFOs like this one fly without lights and appear to be stealth craft. However, flashes of lightning reveal their presence in the middle of night clouds. They believe that advanced alien ships gather energy from electrical discharges – like charging their batteries with the lightning.
Just late in June, footage showing fireball UFOs in the sky amidst a thunderstorm in Buffalo, New York made rounds online. It also sparked debates with many commenters saying that these UFOs were alien craft possibly harvesting energy from lightning or perhaps studying thunderstorm phenomenon.
Betty Hill drew a star map of the constellation that the aliens pointed to
On September 19 1961, Betty and Barney Hill of Portsmouth, New Hampshire claim to have been abducted by aliens.
Scientists at the time discredited a map drawn by Betty which outlined the exact location of where she claimed the extra-terrestrials originated.
Experts claimed there was no constellation similar to the drawing and that it bore no resemblance to any known formation at the time.
Now years later, one statistician has remarkably argued that the unusual alignment of key sun-like stars in the drawing, which mirrors the Zeta Reticuli could never have happened by chance and that Betty WAS a victim of an alien abduction.
Just south of Lancashire,New Hampshire, Betty and Barney claim to have seen a strange, oval craft hovering above them.
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Betty drew the map under hypnosis
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Zeta Reticuli constellation mirrors that drawn by Betty
Then, they spotted a group of 'humanoid beings' watching them from behind a curved lighted window in the craft. Their last conscious memory was of the same creatures standing in the middle of the road, blocking their path.
The next thing they knew they were pulling up at their house in Portsmouth. Over three hours of their journey was unaccounted for with neither of them able to remember the details of that night’s events.
Betty, speaking before her death in 2004, said in an never before seen interview: "I was taken on board. Barney was taken into one room and I was taken into another. The one who did the testing we called The Examiner.
"First they put me on a stool and they checked my eyes, ears, nose, throat. They put me on a table, and said they wanted to check my nervous system.
"Then they tried to insert a needle-like instrument in my navel which caused pain so they stopped doing it. Barney’s exam was very much like mine in the beginning except they were interested in his bone structure.”
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Barney and Betty Hill claimed to have been abducted by aliens
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Barney sketched the alien life form in 1951, an image which has moulded our version of aliens today
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Barney with his drawings in 1951
Betty also remembered a conversation with ‘The Leader’ in which she asked where the extra terrestrials had come from. “I said ‘I know you’re not from this planet but where are you from?’ He showed me a star map indicating where he came from’.
Under hypnosis, Betty drew the map which consisted of twelve prominent stars connected by lines and three lesser ones that formed a distinctive triangle. She said she was told the stars connected by solid lines formed "trade routes", whereas dashed lines were to less-traveled stars.
David Saunders, a statistician who had been on the Condon UFO study, argued that the unusual alignment of key sun-like stars in a plane centered around Zeta Reticuli was statistically improbable to have happened by chance from a random sketch and that Betty was in fact telling the truth.
He claimed that only aliens could have given her the information.
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The official AF UFO report
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A letter at the time determining the residue on Betty's dress and car
Other puzzling evidence surrounding the claimed abduction at the time include Betty’s dress being torn, and covered in a strange pink powder which was later confirmed as 'not being of any organic origin'. There were shiny concentric circles covering the boot of their car and when a compass was placed next to them it would spin uncontrollably.
Later, after the 'encounter', the couple began to experience terrible nightmares and suffer symptoms of severe stress.
Barney became so ill, they sought medical advice. The couple were examined and put under hypnosis by psychiatrist, Dr Benjamin Simon who made an astonishing discovery.
When Betty and Barney were regressed to the missing time and alleged moment of abduction, they were able to clearly recall all the details, serving as further proof of the couple's story.
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Betty and Barney together in 1951
Another incredible picture to emerge from these sessions occurred when Barney sketched his abductors – creating the first known image of an alien.
Later, a 3 dimensional model was created by a local artist.
Barney died of a cerebral hemorrhage on February 25, 1969, at age 46. Betty believed this was partially due to the terrifying experience of his alien abduction.
Betty Hill died October 17, 2004, having spent the intervening years proving beyond a doubt that she was visited by aliens from a distant planet.
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Mars Rover Curiosity Bounces Back from Glitch
Mars Rover Curiosity Bounces Back from Glitch
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took this self-portrait on May 11, 2016 at the "Okoruso" drilling site in the foothills of Mount Sharp.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is back in action after being sidelined by a glitch for a week.
Curiosity put itself into a protective "safe mode" on July 2 after noticing an anomaly. But the rover's handlers brought the six-wheeled robot out of safe mode on Saturday (July 9), and Curiosity is resuming full operations today (July 11), NASA officials said.
The Curiosity team is still investigating the events of July 2, but they think they know what happened.
"The most likely cause of entry into safe mode has been determined to be a software mismatch in one mode of how image data are transferred on board," NASA officials wrote in an update today. "Science activity planning for the rover is avoiding use of that mode, which involves writing images from some cameras’ memories into files on the rover’s main computer. Alternate means are available for handling and transmitting all image data."
The car-size Curiosity rover has now entered safe mode four times since touching down inside Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater in August 2012, recovering fully every time. The other three safe-mode events all occurred in 2013.
The main goal of Curiosity's $2.5 billion mission is to determine whether or not Gale Crater has ever been capable of supporting microbial life. Curiosity's observations have allowed team members to conclude that Gale Crater once hosted a long-lasting system of lakes and streams, suggesting that the area was indeed habitable billions of years ago.
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NASA's Curiosity rover — the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission — landed on Mars Aug. 5. How much do you know about Curiosity and its mission?
Since September 2014, Curiosity has been exploring the foothills of the 3-mile-high (5 km) Mount Sharp, which rises from Gale's center. The rover is studying the different rock layers in the area as it climbs, searching for clues about when and why the Red Planet shifted from a warm and relatively wet world in the ancient past to the cold, dry place it is today.
The rover should keep mountaineering for a while, provided it stays healthy; NASA recently extended Curiosity's mission through October 2018.
Did Supernova Explosion Contribute to Earth Mass Extinction?
Did Supernova Explosion Contribute to Earth Mass Extinction?
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of the supernova remnant known as 1993J, which came from a double-star system.
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon (STScI)
A faraway supernova explosion may have contributed to a minor mass extinction here on Earth 2.59 million years ago, a new study suggests.
Fast-moving, charged particles called cosmic rays that were blasted out by asupernova may have played a role in the climatic changes that apparently led to a die-off at the end of the Pliocene epoch and the start of the Pleistocene, researchers said.
"Africa dried out, and a lot of the forest turned into savannah. Around this time and afterwards, we started having glaciations — ice ages — over and over again, and it's not clear why that started to happen," study co-author Adrian Melott, of the University of Kansas, said in a statement. "It's controversial, but maybe cosmic rays had something to do with it." [Wipe Out: History's Most Mysterious Extinctions]
Melott and his colleagues — led by Brian Thomas, of Washburn University in Kansas — conducted computer simulations that modeled how supernovas might affect Earth's climate and biosphere. (Supernovas can occur in two ways: when a star much more massive than the sun runs out of fuel and dies, or when a superdense stellar corpse called a white dwarf steals so much matter from a nearby companion star that it crosses a mass threshold and explodes.)
The researchers were particularly interested in supernovas that occur about 300 light-years from Earth, because scientists think such events flared up twice relatively recently — once 6.5 million to 8.7 million years ago, and again 1.7 million to 3.2 million years ago. (This latter supernova is the one that may be tied to the Pliocene-Pleistocene extinction.)
"I was expecting there to be very little effect at all," Melott said, noting that 300 light-years is not very close.
The results were therefore surprising. The team's simulations suggest, for example, that such supernovas bathed the night sky in blue light so bright that it disrupted animals' sleep patterns for weeks. And, more importantly, a surge of radiation probably hit organisms on land and in the shallower parts of the ocean.
"The big thing turns out to be the cosmic rays," Melott said. "The really high-energy ones are pretty rare. They get increased by quite a lot here — for a few hundred to thousands of years, by a factor of a few hundred. The high-energy cosmic rays are the ones that can penetrate the atmosphere. They tear up molecules. They can rip electrons off atoms, and that goes on right down to the ground level. Normally, that happens only at high altitude."
Did Supernova Explosion Contribute to Earth Mass Extinction?
The end result was likely a tripling of the overall radiation dose at ground level, the researchers found. This may have been enough to increase cancer and mutation rates, "but not enormously," Melott said. "Still, if you increased the mutation rate, you might speed up evolution."
This radiation may also have affected Earth's climate, the study said. The team's simulations suggest that the increased flux of cosmic rays caused many of the atoms and molecules in the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere (known as the troposphere) to acquire a positive or negative charge.
This "tropospheric ionization" likely lasted for at least 1,000 years, the researchers said.
"It is possible that this could trigger climate change, especially if instability was already present," they wrote in the new study, which appears in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. (You can read it for free at the online preprint site arXiv.org here.)
The Pliocene-Pleistocene extinction was quite a minor one as far as these events go. Previous studies have suggested that a supernova would have to be quite close to Earth — within 25 light-years or so — to trigger a major mass extinction such as the one 65 million years ago that marked the end of the age of dinosaurs.
New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit
New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Pluto isn't quite as lonely as scientists had thought.
Astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy objects beyond Neptune. But this newfound world, dubbed 2015 RR245, is much more distant than Pluto, orbiting the sun once every 700 Earth years, scientists said. (Pluto completes one lap around the sun every 248 Earth years.) You can see an animation of the new dwarf planet's orbit here.
"The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then moved out from the sun," discovery team member Michele Bannister, of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, said in a statement. "They let us piece together the history of our solar system." [Meet the Solar System's Dwarf Planets]
"But almost all of these icy worlds are painfully small and faint; it's really exciting to find one that's large and bright enough that we can study it in detail," Bannister added.
Rendering of the orbit of the newfound dwarf planet RR245 (orange line), which scientists say is the 18th largest object in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.
Credit: Alex Parker/OSSOS team
The exact size of 2015 RR245 is not yet known, but the researchers think it's about 435 miles (700 kilometers) wide. Pluto is the largest resident of the Kuiper Belt, with a diameter of 1,474 miles (2,371 km).
The research team first spotted 2015 RR245 in February of this year, while poring over images that the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii took in September 2015 as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
"There it was on the screen — this dot of light moving so slowly that it had to be at least twice as far as Neptune from the sun," Bannister said.
OSSOS has discovered more than 500 objects beyond Neptune's orbit, but 2015 RR245 is the first dwarf planet that the survey has found, the scientists said.
Discovery images of the dwarf planet RR245, showing the object’s slow motion across the sky over three hours.
Credit: OSSOS team
Dwarf planets are massive enough to be crushed into spheres by their own gravity, but they have not "cleared their neighborhood" of other objects, which differentiates them from "normal" planets such as Earth and Saturn. This definition, which was devised by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, led to Pluto's controversial reclassification as a dwarf planet.
Astronomers are still working out the details of 2015 RR245's highly elliptical orbit, but the object appears to come as close to the sun as 34 astronomical units (AU), and farther away than 120 AU. (One AU is the average Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million km.)
2015 RR245 — which will get a catchier, official name at some point — will make its closest approach to the sun in 2096, the researchers said.
Other confirmed dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt region include Pluto, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. Several other objects in this distant realm, including Sedna, Quaoar and 2007 OR10, probably meet the dwarf-planet criteria as well, scientists have said.
NASA's Juno spacecraft flies above Jupiter's north pole in this artist's illustration.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
For spacecraft that zoom through the cosmos at thousands of miles per hour, calculating which one is traveling the fastest is more complicated than simply clocking the first to cross a finish line.
When space agencies calculate and establish speed records, these numbers need to be defined and qualified, because there can be more than one frame of reference. In other words, the speed of a spacecraft can be calculated relative to the Earth, the sun or some other body.
And as these spacecraft move further away from Earth, it gets trickier to use traditional methods of measurement. This is especially true for metrics such as time; for example, a day on Mars is a different length than a day on Earth. As humans' framework for time breaks down, speed (which is a measurement of distance over time) also becomes relative. [Supersonic! The 11 Fastest Military Airplanes]
When trying to suss out which of the many objects hurtling through space is moving the fastest, there are a few things to consider. To start, it's important to determine which celestial body you'll use as a reference point when calculating velocity. If you're trying to simply measure the speed of a car, Earth works perfectly fine as a reference point, but as you venture out into the cosmos, it makes more sense to use a larger frame of reference. Calculating an object's heliocentric, or sun-relative, velocity then becomes more common.
What's more, once a spacecraft makes it out of Earth's atmosphere, the vessel doesn't always maintain a constant speed. Launch velocities are different from cruise velocities (just like on an airplane), and according to NASA, planetary interactions can cause an object to change speed as well.
For example, a spacecraft can increase its velocity in space by performing a flyby of a planet (or other celestial body, such as a moon), using that planet's gravitational force to speed up or propel the spacecraft out further into the cosmos, NASA said. Essentially, the planet or moon provides a gravitational slingshot. Imagine throwing a tennis ball at an oncoming train: The momentum from the train transfers to the ball, and the ball's velocity increases.
After a five-year jaunt through space, NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, and the gas giant's impressive gravity accelerated the probe to approximately 165,000 mph (265,000 km/h) relative to Earth. This made Juno the fastest-moving human-made object in history.
In terms of pure heliocentric velocity, NASA's Helios I and Helios II probes previously held the record at 157,000 mph (253,000 km/h) as they passed by the sun. These probes were launched in 1974 and 1976, to study solar processes.
The record for fastest launch velocity belongs to the New Horizons probe, which lifted off in 2006 on a mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. This 1,054-lb. (478 kilograms), piano-size spacecraft sped away from the Earth at a blistering pace of 36,000 mph (almost 58,000 km/h).
New Horizons' escape speed from Earth beat the previous record of 32,400 mph (about 52,000 km/h), set when Pioneer 10 set out for Jupiter, in 1972.
And though Juno is currently the fastest human-made object, it remains to be seen how long the space probe can hold onto the impressive title.Solar Probe Plus, a NASA mission scheduled to launch in 2018, is designed to fly into the sun's atmosphere, making it the first probe to do so. Due to the enormity of Earth's nearest star, the probe is expected to reach orbital velocities as high as 450,000 mph (724,000 km/h). For perspective, at this speed, you could travel from the Earth to the moon in about 30 minutes.
For spacecraft that have re-entered Earth's atmosphere, the highest speed was set by the comet-catching Stardust spacecraft, which plunged back toward Earth at a speed of 29,000 mph (more than 46,600 km/h).
Editor's Note: This story was first published in 2010 and has been updated with the most recent data.
NASA's Juno spacecraft flies above Jupiter's north pole in this artist's illustration.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
For spacecraft that zoom through the cosmos at thousands of miles per hour, calculating which one is traveling the fastest is more complicated than simply clocking the first to cross a finish line.
When space agencies calculate and establish speed records, these numbers need to be defined and qualified, because there can be more than one frame of reference. In other words, the speed of a spacecraft can be calculated relative to the Earth, the sun or some other body.
And as these spacecraft move further away from Earth, it gets trickier to use traditional methods of measurement. This is especially true for metrics such as time; for example, a day on Mars is a different length than a day on Earth. As humans' framework for time breaks down, speed (which is a measurement of distance over time) also becomes relative. [Supersonic! The 11 Fastest Military Airplanes]
When trying to suss out which of the many objects hurtling through space is moving the fastest, there are a few things to consider. To start, it's important to determine which celestial body you'll use as a reference point when calculating velocity. If you're trying to simply measure the speed of a car, Earth works perfectly fine as a reference point, but as you venture out into the cosmos, it makes more sense to use a larger frame of reference. Calculating an object's heliocentric, or sun-relative, velocity then becomes more common.
What's more, once a spacecraft makes it out of Earth's atmosphere, the vessel doesn't always maintain a constant speed. Launch velocities are different from cruise velocities (just like on an airplane), and according to NASA, planetary interactions can cause an object to change speed as well.
For example, a spacecraft can increase its velocity in space by performing a flyby of a planet (or other celestial body, such as a moon), using that planet's gravitational force to speed up or propel the spacecraft out further into the cosmos, NASA said. Essentially, the planet or moon provides a gravitational slingshot. Imagine throwing a tennis ball at an oncoming train: The momentum from the train transfers to the ball, and the ball's velocity increases.
After a five-year jaunt through space, NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, and the gas giant's impressive gravity accelerated the probe to approximately 165,000 mph (265,000 km/h) relative to Earth. This made Juno the fastest-moving human-made object in history.
In terms of pure heliocentric velocity, NASA's Helios I and Helios II probes previously held the record at 157,000 mph (253,000 km/h) as they passed by the sun. These probes were launched in 1974 and 1976, to study solar processes.
The record for fastest launch velocity belongs to the New Horizons probe, which lifted off in 2006 on a mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. This 1,054-lb. (478 kilograms), piano-size spacecraft sped away from the Earth at a blistering pace of 36,000 mph (almost 58,000 km/h).
New Horizons' escape speed from Earth beat the previous record of 32,400 mph (about 52,000 km/h), set when Pioneer 10 set out for Jupiter, in 1972.
And though Juno is currently the fastest human-made object, it remains to be seen how long the space probe can hold onto the impressive title.Solar Probe Plus, a NASA mission scheduled to launch in 2018, is designed to fly into the sun's atmosphere, making it the first probe to do so. Due to the enormity of Earth's nearest star, the probe is expected to reach orbital velocities as high as 450,000 mph (724,000 km/h). For perspective, at this speed, you could travel from the Earth to the moon in about 30 minutes.
For spacecraft that have re-entered Earth's atmosphere, the highest speed was set by the comet-catching Stardust spacecraft, which plunged back toward Earth at a speed of 29,000 mph (more than 46,600 km/h).
Editor's Note: This story was first published in 2010 and has been updated with the most recent data.
A pilot who disappeared nearly 40 years ago after reporting a UFO is one of the inspirations for the plot of the new television drama series The Kettering Incident.
While the show revolves around fictional mysterious disappearances in the Tasmanian bush, the disappearance of Frederick Valentich was very real.
Valentich was a 20-year-old pilot who went missing over Bass Strait in 1978, leaving nothing behind except a mysterious radio transmission.
Historian Reg Watson has been researching the disappearance for many years.
"I've looked at it for gosh, three decades," he told Leon Compton on 936 ABC Hobart.
"I have to say, in my opinion, he had an encounter with a UFO — and I don't say that lightly."
'It's not an aircraft'
Valentich went missing on the night of October 21, 1978.
Mr Watson said Valentich wanted to increase his flying hours and planned to fly from Moorabbin in Victoria to King Island.
He left Moorabbin at 6:19pm and made radio contact with air traffic control in Melbourne at 7:06pm.
"He asked if there was any sort of aircraft in the area," Mr Watson said.
Valentich was told there was "no known traffic".
He went on to report a large unknown aircraft had flown over the top of him and added: "It seems to be playing some sort of game. He's flying over me."
Valentich then said:
"It's not an aircraft."
The pilot continued to speak with air traffic control in Melbourne about the craft until 7:12pm and that was the last anyone heard from him.
Mr Watson said authorities searched for Valentich for four days but nothing was ever found.
Theories around disappearance
There are some theories that Valentich staged his disappearance due to some discrepancies in his plans that night.
"There is some mystery about Frederick going to King Island," Mr Watson said.
"His father told me he was 40 minutes late [setting off] to King Island.
"He put his flight plan into Moorabbin but he never told King Island flight service that he was coming, therefore they never had the lights on at the airport.
"This has given rise to two assumptions: one, that he planned his own mysterious departure; or two, that he was a suicide."
Mr Watson said he had spoken to Valentich's family and friends and he did not believe the young man intended to disappear that night.
"Frederick was a well-adjusted young man," he said.
"He had a girlfriend, there was no problem there, he wasn't suffering from depression and he got on well with the family."
1978 UFO sightings — 'The biggest flap in Australia'
The documents around Valentich's disappearance were released to the public in 2012 and Mr Watson said these backed up his belief it was a UFO that caused the disappearance.
"All I know, in the broad terms of a UFO, an unidentified flying object ... that caused his demise," he said.
"For two months prior [to October 21] lights in the sky, cigar-shaped objects, were seen from King Island.
"And I've spoken to witnesses on the north-west coast [of Tasmania] who actually saw a craft on the day 15 minutes before he went missing."
Mr Watson said there were numerous reports of UFO sightings in 1978.
"It's been called the biggest flap in Australia's history," he said.
"Sightings were seen, not only from Tasmania, they were seen as far away as South Australia, right through the coast of Western Australia, even up to the coast of NSW."
A coronial inquiry into the disappearance in 1982 returned an open verdict with Valentich listed as missing, presumed dead.
His family erected a memorial plaque on Cape Otway in 1998 which was unveiled by Steve Roby, the air traffic controller that night in 1978 and the last person to speak with Valentich.
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Astronomers Discover a New Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System
Astronomers Discover a New Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System
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Researchers discovered a new dwarf planet outside the Solar System. Around 700 km in diameter, it is considered the 18th largest object in the Kuiper Belt.
NEW DWARF PLANET
Another Pluto-like dwarf planet was discovered by astronomers. The dwarf planet, located about 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune, has a diameter of around 700 kilometers (435 miles), revolves in an elliptical orbit around the sun for 700 Earth-years and is called 2015 RR245.
On the year 2096, it will be closest to the sun at about 5 billion km (3.1 billion mi) and its farthest distance from the sun is at about 12 billion km (7.5 mi).
The dwarf planet was discovered by a team of astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Maunakea, Hawaii. They took images last September 2015 which were analyzed this February. The discovery was announced on Monday in the Minor Planet Electronic Circular.
RR245 is described as the 18th largest object in the Kuiper Belt. Discovered in 1992, the Kuiper Belt is located 30 AU from the sun. Some objects included in this belt are Pluto, Makemake and Varuna. It contains icy bodies with sizes ranging from small chunks to more than a hundred kilometers across.
Kuiper Belt Illustration Credit: Laurine Moreau
According to CFHT, “RR245 is one of the few dwarf planets that has survived to the present day — along with Pluto and Eris, the largest known dwarf planets.” Majority of the dwarf planets were destroyed or were forced to move away from the sun as the giant planets settled into their current positions.
The Outer Solar System Origins Survey team will get the naming rights to the planet for their discovery. As soon as the precise orbit of the planet is identified, the planet will get its official name. Meanwhile, observations on the dwarf planet will continue.
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Watch: ISS Feed Censors UFO Coming to Earth?
Watch: ISS Feed Censors UFO Coming to Earth?
A tantalizing new piece of footage from the ISS live feed sees an anomalous glowing object seemingly about to enter Earth's atmosphere before the broadcast abruptly stops.
The object itself is not particularly noteworthy and appears as simply a glowing dot slowly descending towards the planet.
What raised eyebrows among UFO enthusiasts was the incredible but all-too-familiar ending to the footage.
After an almost agonizingly long wait for the object to reach the Earth's atmosphere, the feed suddenly stops and a technical difficulties message appears just as it is about to unfold.
The 'coincidental' timing, coupled with the increasing number of times such a turn of events has occurred inrecent years, adds fuel to the conspiracy theory that the 'powers that be' cut the ISS feed to censor UFOs.
Skeptics, of course, will note that the object in question is still just a glowing dot and could be anything from space debris to a meteor.
Some may recall that NASA denied any ISS UFO censorship conspiracy back in April, but, as we predicted, their statement has not put a stop to the continual barrage of videos allegedly showing the cover-up in action.
Coast Insiders looking for more insight into UFO captured on space footage can revisit the 9/17/2015 edition of the program when researcher Mark Peters discussed perhaps the most famous clip of all: the STS-48 video from Space Shuttle Discovery.
De Amerikaanse sonde Juno heeft sinds zijn aankomst in een baan rond de planeet Jupiter zijn eerste foto naar aarde verzonden. Dat maakte de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA dinsdag bekend.
Op het beeldmateriaal is een deel van Jupiter te zien en drie van zijn vier grootste manen: Io, Europa en Ganymedes. In augustus komt de sonde dichterbij de gasreus om betere foto's te kunnen nemen.
Polen Een hoofdonderzoeker van NASA is in ieder geval tevreden dat de apparatuur aan boord van de sonde de reis heeft overleefd. Hij zegt vooral nieuwsgierig te zijn naar beeldmateriaal van de polen van Jupiter.
Atmosfeer De Juno werd in 2011 gelanceerd en kwam vorige week in een baan rond Jupiter, na een reis van 3 miljard kilometer. De sonde moet onder meer de atmosfeer van de planeet in kaart brengen. Wetenschappers willen bijvoorbeeld weten hoeveel water Jupiter heeft.
Een internationaal team van astronomen heeft bewijzen gevonden voor het bestaan van een zogeheten zwaartekrachtskolk rond een zwart gat in de ruimte. De ontdekking maakt het mogelijk theorieën over de zwaartekracht te testen, meldt de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
In de jaren tachtig ontdekten astronomen dat röntgenstraling van zwarte gaten kunnen flikkeren. Eerst gebeurt dat flikkeren ongeveer om de tien seconden. In de dagen, weken en maanden daarna gaat het flikkeren steeds sneller tot zo'n tien keer per seconde. Vervolgens stopt het flikkeren.
Een draaiend object zou een soort zwaartekrachtskolk kunnen creëren, te vergelijken met het ronddraaien van een lepel in een honingpot. De honing is dan de ruimte, de lepel het zwarte gat. Alles in de omgeving wordt meegesleurd door de kolk, zeggen de onderzoekers.
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