Yes, I know it's been a while, but here we are gathered, once again, for a fine meal of space junk and drink. Our monthly gathering at
It also brings some background on the killer comet movies, some new comets just discovered, and how to add your own name to a comet mission, plus a whole lot more on Space Exploration and a lot of fun spacely things the internet has to offer so once again, let's all strap ourselves into our chairs at The B~Hive Caテ 'cause, HOUSTON, WE ARE GO FOR LAUNCH...
It's been a couple of months since the last issue and all sorts of things have changed and happened since then... but before we get too much into it I'm asking all fellow space fans to sign this FORM petitioning more funding for NASA to continue along with the excellent program of Space Exploration
Meanwhile,
the Cosmonauts on MIR released a miniature version of
SPUTNIK on the 40th anniversary of the original mission
(which of course launched the world into the space age)
listen to the sounds of SPUTNIK
(in WAV format) as it orbits the Earth at over 17,000
MPH.
Do you want to send your name to a COMET??, and then have
it come back to Earth?? then T
HIS HERE is your link.
And then there's always sending your name to MARS, to it's South Pole on a CDROM aboard the Mars Polar Lander... Sign up Now.
...And speaking of making an impact, There's been a lot of talk about COMETS and Asteroids possibly impacting the Earth lately and I'd like to add my two cents worth.....so let's start with the movies DEEP IMPACT and Armageddon. It's kinda funny how both of these movies are deep into filming and production and A steroid XF11 is dicovered to come very close to Earth in 2028...the timing is a little funny, and that's all I'm saying about it right now.
Wanna know Sky and Telescope's take on the IMPACT
FACTOR??....here's their link...www.skypub.com
And how about a sweepstakes that you can enter online to win a trip to see a launch!! ENTER HERE(note that S&T is a little funny about links to pages deep inside their site so if the link doesn't work and you really want to enter the contest, go to the S&T link above this one and hunt it down)
However, this is the ultimate Comet Page
...and here's a link to blow your mind!!!
..an online
calculator that calculates the damage of any gven Asteroid
or Comet IMPACT to any given planet or moon, including the Earth and Mars..You can build
your own 'End World' scenario HERE
And now for something really cool, I think it's time we all viewed some very fascinating MPEG movie clips...they're less than 400K and quite exciting....How often do you get to watch TWO comets falling into the SUN and a couple of Solar Belches immeadiately afterwords?? See the Mpeg movies here now...~~MOVIE#1~~MOVIE#2~~MOVIE#3~~
and one last link to NASA's tracking system of things that MIGHT hit the Earth~~Click Here~~
Maybe you've heard about the contest to name
NASA's next Great Observatory...the acronym is AXAF...if
you can think of something better, then maybe you'll win an
all expense paid trip to see the Advanced Xray Astrophysics
Facility get launched into space....it would cetainly mean
something every time you logged on to the AXAF website to
see the latest images knowing you were the one who named
it!!! (I wrote in for The Carl Sagan
Facility)[TCSF] I ...Submit your contest entry name HERE
Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm into Amateur Astronomy
and that I prefer to use binoculars for terrestrial
viewing...10x50's actually...well, I've recently come
across a website that is thee place to see up to the minute
reports of the latest dicoveries of comets and
asteroids and anything newly discovered in Space....if it's
out there and we're admitting
it...then it's right HERE
a> And continuing in the name of
fun....How old do you think you would be on another
planet??...older??, younger??..uglier for sure...Find out
HERE for sure
and of course before we get deeply into Mission out of
Control, a link to the one place where all the current
missions are accessed is All Missions ..and if you own a printer
and like to print out the often astounding Planetary images
from all of this century's spacecraft then this site= PICK A
PLANET..has got it all.!!...Venus, Mars/MGS, Saturn/Cassini,
Jupiter/Galileo..and so
much more!!...But while we're talking about Mars and Saturn
and Jupiter, let's sneak in a couple more MPEG MOVIE
LINKS...Movie #1 is just a good old fashioned Mars clip and
Movie #2 is the trajectory of Cassini as it heads to
Saturn
I've been reading about how the Chinese have started their
own space program and Brazil also and these things have got
me wondering about the future of space exploration. While
nobody would deny that the USA is at the forefront, are we
alone in this field??...the answer is a resounding
NO!!!!....Folks, we are not alone!!!...the accessability of
the web has made communication and orginization amongst
groups of dedicated researchers (and plain old folk like me, too) very easy....and evidence
is showing up all over the place in unprecedented levels
(thanx mostly to the web..everybody clap your hands)...and
you can find out more about these things here
in Come on over to the Conspiracy Corner and look at some
of the stranger and unexplained things going on in our
world....as the saying goes....'Truth is stranger than
fiction' What better place to start talking about hidden
agendas and conspiracies than Mars?..as I've stated many
times before KKSAMURAI's Martian Theory
Page and also his extremely busy Red
Planet Round Table Discussion Board are the places to
start....from there you can follow along the MARS
WEBRING to find out why it is that Mars has been at the
forefront of NASA conspiracy theories for so long Oh and
there's so many more places to go...so let me give you a
few starting points and you're on your own from there
How's about trying to figure out what the object captured
in this image is all about?..It does look like a UFO but
what's it doing so close to the sun? Take a look HERE...a
lso note how well the images are enhanced
And yes folks, contrary to what the media and NASA would
have you believe, There is STILL a case for the face!! THESE are
the facts.
Here's a link to one of the best if not THEE best
UFO/Alien/Space Research site on the web. It's the UASR site
And if you're looking for UFO info?, then maybe UFOSEEK is the
place to start
And here's a great link for those who really want to keep
an
...and finally, for those of you who are still not
convinced that MIR really has been orbiting the Earth for
the past 12 years, this link HERE gives
you a time and date where MIR will fly over your house at
night and you can look right up and see it go by.
This months winner is none other
than MYSELF!!...OK so I know it's a little pathetic and
selfish but I knew as soon as I saw this image that this
was it!!..This pic really brought back good memories of
Hale-Bopp last summer and it made me wish I was down in the
southern hemisphere so i could look up once again (with my
trusty 10x50's of course) and see a beautiful comet tail
once again.....It's only a matter of time before another
comes along but for now I present
Once again, the food has been eaten, the drinks all drank
and the check is on the table here at THE ゚~Hive
Caテ...
Well people, as yet another month passes in our ever busy lives, i'd like to thank all of you for taking the time to visit The ゚~Hive Caテ/Eyes on Space and hopefully you, like I, learned something today. On a final closing note, As I wrote about in an earlier issue about how the SCI-FI BuZZ was gone....it's now back online and the link to it's site is up above....so if you're a fan of SCI-FI then this site is a must see..
Any comments on this months Issue or any Spacely issue shoud be sent to BUCKYZ@WEBTV.NET
And remember that we're always in the market for Images for next months PIC of the MONTH.(any space related pic).
ゥ 1997 Email Easy Bucky
..as MGS
zips around Mars at an incredible speed...Here's a page
that every Mars fan should have bookmarked MarsMapMaker
Enjoy Clip#
1 and Cl
ip#2 on NASA....I bring you NASA-WATCH
Well. there is one final note. As many of you
know, John Glenn (the 1st man in space) is going up once
again on October 29th/98 at 2:00pm, aboard the shuttle
Discovery. I plan on being there to see the launch and here
is an open offer to all readers of The ゚~Hive Cafe/Eyes on
Space.....If any of you plan on being in the Kennedy Space
Center area that day, then let's all meet up and have
one hell of a PARTY!!...more specific details will follow
in future Issues but folks, start thinking about it now and
if any of you can be off work around that time and can
actually make it down to the SPACECOAST area of
Florida, then let's hook up, spacestyle!!..I'm hoping to
meet a few of you and have a real good time at the launch
and afterward we'll have a great party at my hotel.
remember folks, this is an historic launch and the weather
in Florida this time of year is quite nice, so let's all
start planning for a good time at KSC and we'll go from
there.
If you're interested, then please do email me at
BUCKYZ@WEBTV.NET and we'll make plans...
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