THE CREW!
JULY 2006
STS-121 Discovery Launch
THE CREW!
Ths Space Shuttle will launch this afternoon at 3:49 p.m. Eastern Time
Ready to launch...if the weather holds
Morning shot - AP Photo
SHUTTLE LAUNCH CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS! MAYBE TOMORROW WILL BE A GO!
Thunderstorm this evening in Iowa - this is from the new radar program I am using GR AE
You can see into the storm.
Sunday and Monday
Space Shuttle might be launched on Tuesday. That is the new plan! I will likely be on the road by then. I was hoping to see it. :) Hopefully it will be able to take off and have a safe journey ahead!
Heading for the Emerald Coast on Tuesday. Scuba Diving! Will be in Destin for a week and then back home.
Picture sent from David in Honk Kong :) Looks nice!
Asteroid has near-collision with Earth: scientists
An asteroid hurtling through space came within a hair's breadth -- in astronomical terms, at least -- of crashing into the Earth early Monday, US scientists have said.
Apollo Asteroid 2004 XP14 was discovered by Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, a research facility which part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and which claims the title of "the world's principal detector of asteroids" said Roger Sudbury, a spokesman for the lab.
"We were the discoverer" said Sudbury of the Apollo Asteroid 2004 XP14, which passed some 268,873 miles (432,000 kilometers) from the Earth at 0425 GMT.
The distance between the two bodies was slightly greater than that between the Earth and the moon -- a close shave in the vastness of outer space.
Sudbury said the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Minor Planet Center, which is affiliated with the Lincoln Lab, had classified the body as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," because of its proximity to Earth and, if it hit, could have caused "significant impact".
"Most of them that we discover are in the main asteroid belt, which is between Mars and Jupiter," Sudbury said.
"Most would just burn up upon reentry into the atmosphere," he said. "Some of them will have trajectories that will at some point come into the Earth's orbit.
"The question, of course," he continued, "is, where the Earth as the asteroid goes by?"
Sudbury said The Minor Planet Center has established criteria in terms of size and other factors to alert scientists and lay observers "whether an asteroid could actually penetrate the Earth's atmosphere and do significant damage."
In the case of Monday's asteroid, he said, scientists were able to reassure the public that there was never any great risk, but that it would stray off course and crash into the Earth.
The spokesman told AFP that near-Earth asteroids were once believed to be a rarity, but recent scientific and technological advances have allowed researchers to track asteroids that previously escaped detection.
"In a few years we've detected more than have ever been discovered in history," Sudbury said.
Destin Florida - July 4-8th
Went diving today. It was a good day for a dive. Cloudy :) and not too much sun. This was Joeys first real dive - outside of Mermet Springs, Illinois. The Gulf Waters were pretty dirty - at least today they were. Visibility was about 20 feet - give or take. The water temp was VERY warm. Well into the 80s. We did see a lot of fish...some reef but not a lot of color. We dove down to about 82 feet on the first dive and 60+ feet on the second dive. There were about 10 of us out on the boat.
Here are a few photos :) Joey was in charge of taking my photo and I was in charge of taking his. For some reason we got one photo of me :) and a bunch of him. lol
Kristy is doing well and Joel. It is nice to see them - along with everyone else down here! This is the second year we have come down here. The fireworks were nice on Tuesday.
We did see a bunch of Dolphins today when we were diving. I will have to post a few pictures when I have more time.
Some photos from the dive
Joey getting ready to dive into the Gulf of Mexico
Everyone getting ready to dive
I took this photo - this was under the boat :)
This is me in the water :)
Joey in the Gulf of Mexico
Joey taking my picture :)
Joey in the water heading down to 80+ feet
Getting back into the boat
Second dive into the Gulf of Mexico
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