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This eclipse starts at 0529 and ends at 1104 UT,w with the greatest extent occurring aroun 0817 UT. Australians will see only the latter part of this eclipse as the earlier portion occurs during Australian daylight. Eastern Australia and New Zealand are best placed to observe this event. For more details see Eclipses@NASA. |
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The 10th Australian Space Science Conference will be held in Brisbane. Jointly sponsored by the National Committee for Space Science and the National Space Society of Australia, it will cover the areas of space science, space engineering, space industry, government space and space education and outreach. More details can be found at ASSC-10. Details of previous conferences can be found at Australian Space Science Conference |
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The 10th Australian Mars Exploration Conference will be held in Melbourne at the Victoria Space Science Education Centre. The theme this year will be "Living and Working at the Martian Frontier". More details can be found at AMEC 2010. |
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The 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting and General Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia will be held in Hobart, Tasmania. For more details see ASA2010. |
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The 11th Australian Space Development Conference will be
held at the Hilton Hotel in Adelaide. The conference is organised by
the National Space Society of Australia. This year there will be extensive discussions of the Australian
Space Research Program. Also this year the ADSC will co-host Engineers Australia's Space Engineering Symposium. For more details see ASDC. |
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A partial lunar eclipse will be visible from all of Australia and New Zealand. The greatest extent of the eclipse will occur around 1138 UT. For more details see Eclipses@NASA. |
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It is expected that the Japanese Hayabusa (peregrine falcon) asteroid mission will reenter the Earth's atmosphere after releasing a small reentry capsule that it is hoped contains a sample of the asteroid Itokawa. It is planned for this capsule to survive reentry and land near Woomera, South Australia, around 1400 UT. The reentry burnup of the main vehicle should be visible over a large area of South Australia. For more information on the Hayabusa mission see ISAS/JAXA. |