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What are Geminids Meteor Shower?
The Geminids Meteor Showers are to be the strongest between December 4 and December 20. Soon after the Geminids Meteor Shower, the Ursid Meteor showers are to occur between December 17 and December 26. The Geminids are expected at about 60 meteors per hour and the Ursids at five to ten per hour. Meteor Showers ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Comet • Geminids • Leonids • Meteor showers • Meteorites • NASA
ISRO signs Memorandum of Understanding
The Indian Space Research Organization recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Aryabhata Research Institute of Observational Science (ARIES), Nainital. Highlights The ISRO and ARIES signed the MoU on the cooperation in the filed of Space Situational Awareness and Astrophysics. The space situation awareness includes Space object tracking, space orbit analysis and space weather ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Aries • Asteroids • ISRO • Meteorites • space • Space Debris • Space Situation Awareness
Discovery of DNA components in meteorites
In this update are talking about the carbonaceous chondrites and ureilite. Carbonaceous chondrites or C chondrites are meterorites of 7 known and many unknown groups. Ureilite is a rare type of stony meteorite that has a unique mineralogical composition very different from that of other stony meteorites. Both of them are rich on organic material. ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2011
Topics: Allende meteorite • Astrobiology • Carbonaceous chondrite • Chondrite • Geology • In science • Meteorite • Meteorites • Orgueil • Planetary science • Tagish Lake • Ureilite