Tag Archives: Orbit

We’re less than a week away from the scheduled launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, and today the company will fire the engines at the Kennedy Space Center with the rocket firmly anchored to the ground. The static test is somewhat unusual for a rocket seven days before launch, but the test is part of a full dress rehearsal for ... Read More »

Trojan Asteroid : Trojan Asteroid, is a general name given to a Asteroid that circulates the Sun in the same Orbit as a Planet. Such type of Asteroid were earlier detected only in  Mars, Jupiter and Neptune orbit. This discovery made the Scientist scratch their head because of their failure to learn such asteriod orbits. As a result, they  increased ... Read More »

European astronomers say they have discovered a star system containing at least five Neptune-like planets. They suspect there are two more, including one that could be the smallest found outside our solar system. Christophe Lovis of Geneva University says the discovery was made by Swiss, French and German scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile. Lovis said Tuesday ... Read More »