“Cassini” should spark until the end

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Before its final crash into saturn, the nasa space probe "cassini" is to collect some spectacular data. In the remaining two and a half weeks it is to make among other things still recordings of the luminous saturn aurora, announced nasa on tuesday in pasadena.

Researchers also hope to obtain new information about the temperature and the vortices at the poles of the gas planet. The camera of the space probe is already on the 14. September, one day before the controlled crash, shut down. When "cassini" finally descends into the atmosphere, data on the composition of the saturn atmosphere will be transmitted to earth via radio waves – until contact is broken after a maximum of two minutes.

"The cassini mission was packed with scientific premieres. And our unique planetary observations will continue until the end of the mission, when cassini will become our first planetary probe, imaging saturn’s atmosphere until the last second," said linda spilker of the nasa jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena.

The probe began the last round of its spectacular dives through the saturn rings in april. She had made fascinating recordings of it. "Cassini" was launched in 1997 and arrived in the orbit of the planet in 2004. Among other things, they examined the moon enceladus and its ice shell in several flybys. Thousands of employees from 17 countries are involved in the multi-billion dollar mission.

May 31, 2023 by 0Comments
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Vincent held and his bayern goal
Vincent Held and his bayern goal

Twelve goals in five games so far vincent held has scored for FC geesdorf. That’s unusual for a 20-year-old who only recently moved from SSV kitzingen to the state league and had previously not progressed beyond the district league. When asked about his exploits, held, a young striker, says: "things are going quite well." Quite well?

That’s probably a bit too much modesty and a bit of an understatement. Now one of his goals is also in the selection for the "bayerntreffer" of the month of july. On the internet portal of the bayerischer fubballverband you can still vote for the landesliga-freshman until next wednesday, 12 o’clock. There are five competitors.

The accompanying video shows the pictures of this stroke of genius: you can see how held receives the ball on the left side of the penalty area in the fourth minute of the game at FC coburg. He runs to the baseline and seven or eight meters into the penalty area and finally shovels the ball from an extremely acute angle over the baffled goalkeeper into the far corner. The ball bounces off the post and into the net.

"I’ve scored several goals where i later didn’t know exactly how i did it," says held. At that moment, you have an "idea" and try to implement it. A few days later the BFV called: the goal is nominated for goal of the month.

For held, the story is another chapter in a short but intense success story. When he left his home and training club in kitzingen in the summer, not everyone understood the move. SSV had just been promoted to the district league again and could have used the 20-year-old well. But held wanted to try himself out and "develop further.

He talked for a long time with jannik feidel, the not much older new player coach in geesdorf – and loved to convince himself. In the 4-1-4-1 system of his new club, he has since been occupying the front 1. Held is a classic center forward, but not a solo entertainer, as he immediately adds. "I’m well fed," he says of his teammates’ cooperation. You have managed to satisfy the attacker’s hunger for goals in each of the five games so far.

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Fireball sighted over germany

Numerous people watched on saturday evening as a fireball passed over the center of germany. "Within a few hours we had about 90 entries on our registration address", confirmed jurgen oberst from the fireball net on sunday.

The reporting address that oberst addressed is a joint project of the german center for aeronautics and space (DLR) and the technical university (TU) berlin. "The reports all refer to an event at about 18.40 o’clock, and most of the reports come from the area koln-frankfurt-stuttgart."

"It was most likely an asteroid fragment that entered the atmosphere," explained the technical director of the DLR fireball network, dieter heinlein. The rather coarse lump was around 18.41 o’clock flew from east to west over about kassel. The exact gross is still unknown.

Such reports of fireballs are particularly frequent in november and december, heinlein said. Over austria on 19. November already a similar chunk plunged into the atmosphere, from which then individual pieces fell to earth. It is still unclear whether this has now also happened in germany.

"Very bright fireball from dusseldorf-ludenberg towards mettmann. It then disintegrated into several parts. Time 18:40h", wrote a celestial observer to the "rheinische post", as it reported on sunday.

An observer from siegen reported according to oberst of a bright ray moving along the sky, which had changed into a green jade-like color. The coarse part apparently broke up, and two smaller brightly shining spheres came off. The duration of the sighting was at most five to seven seconds.

But also in the north of germany the celestial phenomenon could be observed. "Sighting of a bright object flying from west to east with a green tail. Tail 3-4x as coarse as the object, with detachment of smaller parts", wrote a man from schleswig-holstein on a page of the observatory gahberg (austria).

According to DLR, asteroids are small bodies left over from the time when planets were formed. In our solar system, most of them are to be found in the so-called asteroid belt between the planetary orbits of mars and jupiter. However, collisions in this area produce fragments that can also cross the earth’s orbit and create fireballs as they plunge into the atmosphere.

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