Asian stocks bullish

Asian stocks jumped Wednesday after the Dow closed at a two-and-a-half-year high on the back of data indicating the US economy is gaining strength while easing tensions in Egypt added to sentiment.Tokyo’s Nikkei surged 1.78 percent, or 182.86 points, to end at 10,457.36 and Sydney closed 0.93 percent, or 44.4 points, higher at 4,796.5.Hong Kong ended 1.81 percent, or 426.01 points, higher at 23,908.96.The Hong Kong market was open for just half a day due to the Lunar New Year holidays while Shanghai, Seoul and Taipei were closed.The broader S&P 500 index jumped 1.67 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 1.89 percent. Fears about unrest in Egypt eased late Tuesday after President Hosni Mubarak said he would step down after elections.

Chandra Grahan On Saturday 26 June 2010 | Lunar Eclipse 2010

Chandra Grahan | Grahan In 2010 | Universal Time | Lunar Eclipse | Lunar Eclipse 2010

You know that today is Chandra grahan and what will happen during this time at moon rise. Chandra grahan is known as Lunar Eclipse. Lunar Eclipse in 2010 on Saturday 26th June will be seen in different area of the United States of America.

In Chandra grahan, when Sun, Earth and Moon are comes aligned exactly and very closely so then you can see some black spots on the moon so you can see the full moon. There are light is decreases of moon so has spread darkness on the earth that is called “Chandra graham” or “lunar eclipse”.

It also visible in Australia and eastern parts of Asia pacific countries. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth such that the earth blocks the sun’s rays from striking the moon.

Effect of Chandra Grahan June 2010 on various Rashis:

• Mesha Rasi – bad results (negative impact)
• Vrishabha Rasi – mixed results (neutral impact)
• Mithun Rashi – Bad results (negative effects)
• Karka Rasi – Good results (positive impact)
• Simha Rasi – Average results (neutral impact)
• Kanya Rasi – Bad results (negative effect)
• Tula Rasi – Good or beneficial results (positive effect)
• Vrischika Rasi – Average results (medium effects)
• Dhanu Rasi – Bad results (negative impact)
• Makar Rashi – Average effects (medium results)
• Kumbh Rasi – Good results (beneficial effects)
• Meena Rashi – Good results (fortunate or beneficial)

The full lunar eclipse has phyysically powerful result on the water in our oceans and many create gigantic tidal waves which can formed in the water as a effect of gravitational power heave of the moon.

Ice Deposits Discovered At Moon’s Pole

The US space agency’s (Nasa) Mini-Sar experiment found more than 40 small craters containing water ice. But other compounds – such as hydrocarbons – are mixed up in lunar ice, according to new results from another lunar mission called LCROSS.
The findings were presented at a major planetary science conference in Texas.
The craters with ice range from 2km to 15km (one to nine miles) in diameter; how much there is depends on its thickness in each crater. But Nasa says the ice must be at least a couple of metres thick to give the signature seen by Chandrayaan-1.
Dr Paul Spudis, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, estimated there was at least 600 million metric tonnes of water ice held within these impact craters.
The equivalent amount, expressed as rocket fuel, would be enough to launch one space shuttle per day for 2,200 years, he told journalists at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
What all these craters have in common are large areas of their interiors that never see sunlight. Temperatures in some of these permanently darkened craters can drop as low as 25 Kelvin (-248C; -415F) – colder than the surface of Pluto – allowing water ice to remain stable.
“It is mostly pure water ice,” said Dr Spudis, “it could be under a few tens of centimetres of dry regolith (lunar soil).” This protective layer of soil could prevent blocks of pure ice from vaporising even in some areas which are exposed to sunlight, he explained.
In February, President Barack Obama cancelled the programme designed to return Americans to the Moon by 2020.
However, Dr Spudis said: “Now we can say with a fair degree of confidence that a sustainable human presence on the Moon is possible. It’s possible using the resources we find there.”
“The results from these missions, that we have seen in the last few months, are totally revolutionising our view of the Moon.”

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Ice Deposits Discovered At Moon’s Pole was first posted on March 2, 2010 at 4:54 pm.

Oil Prices above $74

SINGAPORE: Oil prices hovered above $74 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as investors looked for signs of improving global crude demand amid light holiday trading.

Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 9 cents at $74.22 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. With markets closed Monday in the U.S. for the Presidents Day holiday, the contract last settled on Friday, falling $1.15 to $74.13.

Trading volume was light in Asia as markets in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.

Oil has traded between $69 a barrel and $84 for the last few months as investors struggle to gauge global crude demand.

On Monday, Japan said its economy grew an annualized 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter while China raised reserve requirements for banks last week in a bid to slow economic growth
and avoid asset bubbles.

“There are some signs of improvement in OECD countries as a whole with strong Japanese growth data,” Barclays Capital said in a report. “Worries about softening in China’s commodity demand are overblown.”

In other Nymex trading in March contracts, heating oil was steady at $1.9203 a gallon, and gasoline fell 0.47 cent to $1.9248 a gallon.

Natural gas rose 4.6 cents to $5.51 per 1,000 cubic feet.

In London, Brent crude was up 35 cents at $72.86 on the ICE futures exchange.

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Oil Prices above $74 was first posted on February 16, 2010 at 2:34 pm.

Andhra MP Rajagopal Arrested At Hyderabad Airport

TrendPK.com Oil Under Pressure From Strengthening Dollar:Congress MP from Vijayawada L. Rajagopal was arrested Monday at the airport here soon after he landed to launch an indefinite fast to oppose the proposed division of Andhra Pradesh, police said.
Tension prevailed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad on the city outskirts as [...]

Shahrukh Khan Birthday

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khans birthday, a fan of Australia each year buys a piece of the moon for him!

Shahrukh confirmed: “Yes, an Australian woman buys a little earth to the moon for me every year on my birthday. She has been shopping for a while and now I have these certificates from the Lunar Republic Society.”

SRK said that he had done his fan and will be in touch with him through emails “She writes me emails of colors (in the sense of a line is red, one blue and so on) . I feel blessed to have the love of many people worldwide. ”

One can buy a maximum of 40 hectares of land for each transaction.

The proceeds from the purchase of the land on the moon will be used to program the Lunar Society of the Republic to privatize human-based exploration, settlement and development of the Moon.

1 hectare, approximately 43,560 square feet costs U.S. $ 37.50 and the actor reportedly owns several acres there.

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Shahrukh Khan Birthday was first posted on November 2, 2009 at 6:54 pm.

Nasa Moon Rocket

Nasa Moon Rocket, The LCROSS mission is going to do this by sending a rocket crashing into the moon causing a big impact and creating a crater, throwing tons of debris and potentially water ice and vapor above the lunar surface. This impact will release materials from the lunar surface that will be analyzed for the presence of hydrated minerals which would tell researchers if water is there or not.

The two main components of the LCROSS mission are the Shepherding Spacecraft (S-S/C) and the Centaur upper stage rocket. The Shepherding Spacecraft guides the rocket to a site selected on the moon that has a high probability of containing water. Because they have only one chance with this mission in finding water, the researchers have to be very precise where they program the Shepherding Spacecraft to guide the rocket.

The Shepherding Spacecraft and Centaur rocket are launched together with another spacecraft called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). All three are connected to each other for launch, but then the LRO separates one hour after launch. The Shepherding Spacecraft guides the Centaur rocket through multiple Earth orbits, each taking about 38 days. The rocket then separates from the Shepherding Spacecraft and impacts the Moon at more than twice the speed of a bullet, causing an impact that results in a big plume or cloud of lunar debris, and possibly water. While this is happening the Shepherding Spacecraft, which has scientific instruments on-board including cameras, is taking pictures of the rocket’s descent and impact into the moon.

The LCROSS mission is going to do this by sending a rocket crashing into the moon causing a big impact and creating a crater, throwing tons of debris and potentially water ice and vapor above the lunar surface. This impact will release materials from the lunar surface that will be analyzed for the presence of hydrated minerals which would tell researchers if water is there or not.

The two main components of the LCROSS mission are the Shepherding Spacecraft (S-S/C) and the Centaur upper stage rocket. The Shepherding Spacecraft guides the rocket to a site selected on the moon that has a high probability of containing water. Because they have only one chance with this mission in finding water, the researchers have to be very precise where they program the Shepherding Spacecraft to guide the rocket.

The Shepherding Spacecraft and Centaur rocket are launched together with another spacecraft called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). All three are connected to each other for launch, but then the LRO separates one hour after launch. The Shepherding Spacecraft guides the Centaur rocket through multiple Earth orbits, each taking about 38 days. The rocket then separates from the Shepherding Spacecraft and impacts the Moon at more than twice the speed of a bullet, causing an impact that results in a big plume or cloud of lunar debris, and possibly water. While this is happening the Shepherding Spacecraft, which has scientific instruments on-board including cameras, is taking pictures of the rocket’s descent and impact into the moon.

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Nasa Moon Rocket was first posted on October 9, 2009 at 6:37 pm.

Nasa Moon Bombing 2009

NASA is bombing the Moon Friday, and you can watch the unprecedented event via live stream online.

The LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission launched in June with its main goal to look for frozen water reserves on the moon by literally blowing up an area at the Moon’s south pole.

A source of water on the Moon could provide hydrogen for fuel, and assist in the establishment of a permanent moon base.

If bombing the Moon once wasn’t enough, NASA will actually do it twice. The mission has two stages: the shepherding spacecraft and Centaur heavy impactor will separate, with the Centaur creating a debris plume that will rise above the lunar surface. The shepherding spacecraft will fly through the debris plume, collecting and relaying data back to Earth before impacting the lunar surface and creating a second debris plume.

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Nasa Moon Bombing 2009 was first posted on October 9, 2009 at 12:21 pm.

NASA Lunar Mission Successfully Enters Moon Orbit

CAPE CARNIVAL: The U.S. space agency says its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter entered a lunar orbit at 6:27 a.m. EDT Tuesday.

“Lunar orbit insertion is a crucial milestone for the mission,” said Cathy Peddie, LRO deputy project manager at Goddard. “The LRO mission cannot begin until the moon captures us. Once we enter the moon’s orbit, we can begin to (build) the dataset needed to understand in greater detail the lunar topography, features and resources.”

A series of four engine burns this week will put the satellite into its commissioning phase orbit. During that commissioning phase each of the LRO’s seven instruments is checked and brought online. The commissioning phase will end approximately 60 days after launch, when LRO will use its engines to transition to its primary mission orbit, NASA said.

The LRO will orbit the moon at about 31 miles for one year, compiling high resolution, three-dimensional maps of the lunar surface and also surveying it at many spectral wavelengths. The space agency said the satellite is expected to return more data about the moon than any previous mission.

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NASA Lunar Mission Successfully Enters Moon Orbit