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Scientists are studying how to knock an asteroid that’sheading for Earth out of its orbit. Spanish companyDeimos-Space, in its Don Quixote mission, plans to launch apair of probes called Hidalgo and Sancho towards a far offasteroid. One would hit the asteroid at extremely highspeed, deflecting it slightly from its orbit. The otherwould observe the asteroid and measure what happened to itafter the impact. This would tell scientists how hard theywould have to hit a real the asteroid heading for Earth inorder to deflect it safely.
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The Diario La Arena newspaper of Argentina reports that aman was hospitalized in a state of shock after a UFO stolehis cellphone. Police officer Marcelo Alarcon says that RaulDorado, 64, was walking in one of his fields when “he heardloud sounds on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drewhis attention. The third time, he saw something he describesas a green circle with three legs hovering over him.”

He had a shotgun, binoculars and a cellphone with him. As hefell on the ground, the cellphone was “taken from his hand,and he could clearly see it being sucked into the object,which was apparently at low altitude.?
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Go outside on Sunday, August 11th just after 9 p.m. andyou’ll see streaming meteors that will skim the atmospherehorizontally and leave colorful, long-lasting trails.

Space contains lots of small asteroids and comet dust. Whenthey hit the Earth’s atmosphere, they appear as fierystreaks of light. From August 11 through 13, the beautifulannual meteor shower called the Perseids will again appearin our skies. This space dust is small and moves fast?theparticles be moving at about 132,000 mph when they hit ouratmosphere.

“These meteors are extremely long,” says Robert Lunsford, ofthe International Meteor Organization. “I’ve never been ableto capture [one] on film. Being shy, they tend to hug thehorizon rather than shooting overhead where most cameras areaimed.”read more

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New research shows that house sparrows may be an majorsource of the West Nile virus, and the virus can multiplyinside the birds without killing them. This means thedisease could be as close as your bird feeder, and you’dhave no way of knowing it.

Most infected sparrows become immune to West Nile within 5days, meaning the virus dies inside their bodies. When thishappens, mosquitoes that bite the birds can no longer spreadthe virus to other animals and humans, but until then, thebirds are dangerous.
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