Posts

Germany wins 2017 Confederation Cup Football title

Image
hello friends,             Germany wins 2017 Confederation Cup Football title                                                                                     Four-time FIFA World Cup winner Germany won maiden FIFA Confederation Cup Football title by defeating Copa America Champion Chile by 1-0 goals in the final match held at St Petersburg, Russia. Lars Stindl of Germany score the goal in the first half against the run of play. Chile was not able to score goal.  Earlier, in the third-place play-off match, Portugal defeated Mexico by 2-1. About FIFA Confederations Cup  The FIFA Confederations Cup is an international association football tournament for national teams. It is currently held every four years by FIFA....
Post a Comment
Read more

NASA developing first asteroid deflection mission

Image
NASA is developing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first-ever mission that will deflect a near-Earth asteroid. The mission will help to test the systems that will allow mankind to protect the planet from potential cosmic body impacts in the future. key facts ......... The DART will be built and managed by the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). It will be NASA’s first mission to demonstrate kinetic impactor technique.  The target for DART is an asteroid called Didymos that will have a distant approach to Earth in October 2022 and then again in 2024. The asteroid Didymos (Greek word for twin) is an asteroid binary system that consists of two bodies: Didymos A (about 780 metres in size), and Didymos B (about 160 metres in size), smaller asteroid orbiting Didymos A. DART will impact only the smaller of the two bodies, Didymos B. After launch, DART will fly to Didymos and use an APL- developed onboard autonomous targeting system to aim itself at Di...
Post a Comment
Read more