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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Planet of diamonds


U.S. scientists have found a diamond weigh several quadrillion carat. 

True, it is located far away from the Earth, and exceeds it in size by half.

The astronomers studied the planet that orbits a star that is visible to the naked eye, is twice the size of Earth and is essentially a giant diamond.

Asteroid 2012 TC4 pass by Earth at a distance of 95,000 km


An asteroid the size of a house will pass very close to Earth today, as scientists have caution. However, in spite of the fact that the space is very close, the scientists insist that there is no risk of collision with our planet.

Asteroid 2012 TC4 held at a distance of only 95,000 km from the Earth, which is about a quarter of the distance to the Moon at its maximum proximity to the Earth. This asteroid was discovered by astronomers October 4. NASA scientists will be watching it from the lab Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Russia to land on the moon in 2015


Russian scientists are going to launch a mission to the moon routine. The project, scheduled for 2015, is planned to confirm that Russian science is still able to create devices and send them to other cosmic bodies.

In 2015, Russian scientists plan to make the descent module landed on the moon.