NO SPACESTATION SIGHTINGS OVER uk for a few weeks and thanks to Stokemaverick

[wendilla]

for posting times at the weekend .My computer developed a fault and I could not post or do anything but all ok now. Atlantis is on it's last trip on the 8th July so will post to remind you but you can go to Nasa tv and find info there.

[Bobbisox]

Wendi we saw the most awesome Lunar Eclipse when we were on holiday

[wendilla]

Bet that was sight worth seeing . Glad you had a nice holiday.

[Bobbisox]

it was very weird, not the holiday..ha-ha, it was about 9-30 pm and the Moon was misshapen?

[sidkid]

This is a good satellite tracking site. I use it for tracking the ISS

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=26536

[wendilla]

Thanks for that Sidkid will have a look through that . this is the one I use
http://spaceflight.na...a/tracking/index.html

[SIRandyraven]

Fly tipping is getting worse ...

http://www.telegraph....rced-to-evacuate.html

[wendilla]

ASTEROID FLYBY: Asteroid 2011 MD flew past Earth on Monday, June 27th. At closest approach the ~10-meter space rock was only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above the planet's surface. NASA analysts said there was no chance it would strike Earth, and indeed it didn't.

Astronomers around the world monitored the flyby. Using a remotely-controled telescope in Cerro Tololo, Chile, Joe Pollock of Appalachian State University obtained this light curve: