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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Miss Universe 2015 - Will MJ Lastimosa be crowned by Gabriela Isler Tonight?


Beauty and brains unfolds tonight as the 63rd edition of the Miss Universe 2015 pageant happens to be held on January 25, 2015 in Doral in Florida, USA and witness MJ Lastimosa of the Philippines vie to win the much coveted crown. Tonight's presenters will be Tim Vincent, Megan Young and Frankie Cena and the Miss World Organisation has revealed the top five contestants of the challenge events including: Top Model, Beach Fashion, Multimedia, Talent and Sports & Fitness and also included to watch for is the Beauty With a Purpose and The People's Choice were in Valerie Weigmann of the Philippines was among the top 3 with Australia and India. The 2014 Miss World grand coronation night is going to be exciting and just like Miss Universe there's a lot of beautiful woman to see and in the end the one that truly stands out wins.



The Miss World beauty contest is one of the oldest international beauty pageants in the world and was first created in the UK in 1951 by Eric Morley. The original contest was introduced as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations. Therefore, it is traditional for the winner to spend the winning year in London and travel to represent the Miss World Organisation (MWO) and it's causes which is why Megan Young spent some of her time in the UK last year. So who ever will bring home the crown tonight truly deserves it but in the end everybody who joins the contest is already a winner by representing their country with pride and honor which is truly the celebration of a nation's success. I thank you!:-)

Observing Geminids Meteor Shower 2014 - The Last Spectacular Meteor Shower For 2014


It's December and it's time for the spectacular Geminids Meteor Shower 2014 the last meteor shower for 2014 and is expected to peak this weekend, reaching it's maximum on December 14th when it intensifies during the late evening and with last quarter moon to rise around midnight, no worries because Geminids meteor showers are bright even though this shower favors observing in the Northern Hemisphere, it's also visible from the Southern Hemisphere. The Geminids are forecasted to be at their best on the night of December 13th and the early morning of the 14th having it's peak at around 2AM and since the Geminids tends to be bright it would be even much better if lunar glare is minimized as many as 60 meteors per hour can be seen during that time so it's a must to avoid the the city lights as much as possible. Watch closely for the “radiant” it is the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to originate or emanate which is almost overhead, next to the constellation Gemini.



Unlike the Leonids, the origins of Geminids Meteor Shower is far unique because when Earth passes through a path of debris stream left about by a comet, the source of the Geminids is quite different, a 3-mile-wide asteroid-like object called 3200 Phaeton. When Phaeton was discovered in 1983, it resembled like another asteroid, but further observations using NASA’s STEREO spacecraft over the last few years have revealed that 3200 Phaeton has a tail like a comet, so it's considered to be a coemt and it’s now called a rock comet but another in between object that seems to be part asteroid, part comet, you know like half-half:-) So get out and see the Geminids tonight and be dazzled by the beauty of the night skies while geminids streaks across the sky leaving some persistent trails and watch out for some fireballs and bolides which is a striking feature of the Geminids.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Orion Spacecraft Launch - The next generation of space travel into deep space


The Human Space Exploration is about to change forever as the Orion Launch is about to happen were the limits in space exploration sets no boundaries to the far reaches of the universe when NASA's Orion Launch on December o4, 2014 in Cape Canaveral, FL USA rolled out to do a series of testings once in outer space to ready the humans in a much longer space flight just like in the movie Interstellar were the Endurance travel across the universe via wormhole located near Saturn, although in a much real situation the Orion is equipped with the latest technologies including the chutes, the onboard computer, and many others to the the recordings of every detail so that when it's time for humans to travel in space like going to Mars and beyond, every thing is all set. But things happen for the reason as the much anticipated Orion Launch day for NASA's Orion spacecraft will be delayed and will resume it's launching on Friday instead because of some problems encountered such as weather problems, including wind gusts, a stray boat in the launch zone and technical issues that causes the delay. But on Friday it will be mankind's another historic moment when the Orion Launch commence, hopefully, and will be carried by a powerful Delta IV-Heavy rocket launch vehicle and the launch is tentatively scheduled for 7:05AM ET Friday. The Orion spacecraft will be the newest space vehicle by NASA retiring it space shuttle and was built by the famous Lockheed Martin. The Delta IV-Heavy rocket launcher is the newest member of the Delta launch system family and is now considered to be the highest capacity rocket in the world which can launch 50,000 pounds of payload into orbit which has the Common Booster Core or CBC first stage which uses cryogenic propellants, Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Hydrogen, and two additional CBCs augment the first stage as strap-on liquid boosters to form a trip-body rocket. So going into deep space is now become more a reality as we send the uncrewed Orion spacecraft 3,600 miles from Earth on a two-orbit flight to test critical systems for the challenges of deep space missions and as humans look for Mars as it's target for the manned mission after the Lunar landing, it is safe to say that after the Orion spacecraft successful launch and series of test, we can now say that we are no go for launch across the red planet and beyond.