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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Scientists have proposed to deal with space debris harpoon


British company Astrium UK proposed to deal with space debris in orbit with a special harpoon.

Debris called fragments of old spacecraft left Earth orbit. Currently, the Joint U.S. Strategic Command monitors 19 thousand objects in orbit, the size of which more than 10 centimeters. According to experts objects with a diameter greater than a centimeter in space on the order of magnitude - more than 600,000. Due to the high velocity (and, consequently, the high kinetic energy), even small pieces of apparatus can be hazardous to spacecraft.

Archaeologists have discover the tomb of Queen of the Maya


In Guatemala, archaeologists during the quarry of the ancient Mayan city accidentally discovered the tomb of the Queen. At the interment site found many items of historical value, various vessels, ornaments, plaster images of rulers and the queen herself at a young age.

The tomb containing the remains of the Mayan Queen Kalomte cable discovered by archaeologists on excavations in Guatemala, Latin American broadcast media.

Star cluster for the first time found a pair of black holes

M22 star cluster in our galaxy is located at a distance of 10,000 light-years from Earth. Administer to make a discovery by observing a super-large array radio telescopes located in New Mexico.

U.S. astronomers have detected about two separate black holes in the same star cluster M22, located in the constellation Sagittarius. The paper was published in the journal Nature, a summary of its results ScienceNow.