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OTHER WORLDS OTHER SOUNDS (cover art 1958) ...Asteroid Vesta (July 19, 2011) ...item 2.. Juan García Esquivel: Begin The Beguine ...
Image by marsmet463
Vesta, 330 miles in diameter, is the second-most massive object in the asteroid belt and is believed to be the source of many meteorites that fall to Earth.
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img code photo...This image of the Asteroid Vesta...Tue, Jul 19, 2011
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This image of the Asteroid Vesta, released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, July 18, 2011, was captured by the Dawn spacecraft on July 17, 2011. The image was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the proto planet Vesta. (AP Photo/ NASA/JPL).
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img code photo....This image of the Asteroid Vesta...Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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This image of the Asteroid Vesta, released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, July 18, 2011, was captured by the Dawn spacecraft on July 1, 2011. The image was taken from a distance of about 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 5.8 miles. (AP Photo/ NASA)
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.....item 1).... Yahoo! News ... NASA spacecraft is orbiting massive asteroid ...
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AP – Tue, Jul 19, 2011
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA's Dawn spacecraft was captured into orbit around the massive asteroid Vesta after a 1.7 billion-mile journey and is preparing to begin a study of a surface that may date to the earliest era of the solar system, the space agency said Monday.
The entry into orbit occurred while the spacecraft's antenna was pointed away from Earth, so mission controllers had to wait for Dawn to re-establish contact to confirm its success.
The capture was estimated to have occurred at 10 p.m. PDT Friday, when Dawn was 9,900 miles from Vesta and 117 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"We are beginning the study of arguably the oldest extant primordial surface in the solar system," the mission's principal investigator, Christopher Russell from the University of California, Los Angeles, said in the statement.
NASA said that after the orbital capture, Dawn sent an initial close-up image taken for navigation purposes. Before the Dawn mission, images of Vesta were obtained by ground- and space-based telescopes but did not show much surface detail.
Vesta, 330 miles in diameter, is the second-most massive object in the asteroid belt and is believed to be the source of many meteorites that fall to Earth.
Dawn will continue to approach Vesta over the next three weeks, search for possible moons and make more navigation images. It begins gathering science data in August. Vesta's gravitational pull on Dawn will be measured to more accurately determine the asteroid's mass.
The spacecraft will eventually get as close as 110 miles from the surface.
Dawn was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 2007 and used an ion propulsion system to reach Vesta. Ion engines provide gentle yet constant acceleration to achieve high speeds.
The spacecraft will study Vesta for a year and then continue on to the most massive object in the main asteroid belt, the "dwarf planet" Ceres. That encounter is scheduled to occur in February 2015.
JPL is managing the 6 million mission for NASA. UCLA is responsible for the mission's science. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute also have roles in the mission.
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Online: Dawn mission: dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.asp
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.....item 2).... youtube video ... Juan García Esquivel: Begin The Beguine ... 3:12 minutes..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFd6ZMpri8&feature=related
ALBUM: Esquivel - Other Worlds, Other Sounds (1958)
Esquivel fue llevado a Nueva York en 1958 Donde, intrigado por la nueva tecnología, grabó su primer disco en sonido estéreo: Other Worlds, Other Sounds, Nominado a un grammy (ya sé, eso qué importa, pero había que decirlo) aquí Esquivel Toca el piano y preparó los arreglos para una orqueta de 26 piezas y seis coristas. Coristas voladores haciéndole "zu-zu!," "ooh" y "ah" espolvorean pisadas de piano sobre nosotros, las guitarras cruzan el cielo como azaetas por la izquierda y por la derecha, Todo es parte del encanto en estéreo. El uso dinámico de este sistema de grabación de dos canales es muy inventivo en este disco, este juego con el estéreo es otro sello de esquivel. Pero bueno, no sé porqué me preocupo en describir este disco si sé que muchos de ustedes bajarán (y comprarán, claro) este álbum Tan sólo por la cosmic hottie de la portada. Este disco es fácil de conseguir y aún está a la venta, lo realmente interesante de este álbum es que desde aquí ya empezamos a sentir los rasgos futuristas del estilo "Esquivel!"
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The earth is new
Image by kern.justin
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The Moon over Klamath Point, California
Were I to spent half as much time putting together blog posts as I do running about with my camera or post-processing images - I might actually have a decent blog going here. One image per day projects, I find, leave me with 25 or so outstanding images at year's end and 340, well, other images. I wanted to focus on the 25 images worth sharing.
When I have an image I really like, I tend to delay posting it - often planning to post it as part of a series or alongside thoughts not yet worked into words. The upshot of this strategy is that there are often images that I love which are greatly delayed in making their appearance on the blog. This is one such image.
We ate soup from the tin, heated in a camp stove on Klamath Point. The big intertidal swells were rolling in strong. We waited until long after the sun sank below the marine boundary layer and violet enveloped the Earth so as to catch the moon just above a massive boulder on the beach. Two stones from the same soup, separated by a few billion years and a frame of beautiful, negative space. This frame is a perfect example of the compressive effect of memory. We spent many nights in and around the redwood forests, but this evening stands out above the others. Looking at the image, I can taste the beer we had after dinner and feel the dark, bluster of cold evening rolling in from offshore.
