the plane crashed and exploded

TU-154 said to be running into a tree in a thick fog afternoon (when there) 10 April and causing it to burn andcrash resulted in 97 people in the plane were killed.

President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria was the dignitaries who were killed in the tragedy.

Among the dignitaries and high officials who were killed were Polish General Franciszek Gagor, GabnorCentral Bank, Salwomir Skrzypek, two Deputy Minister - Foreign Affairs and Defence and a few others.

Although the skeletons of the plane were scattered here and there, but all passengers and crew were killed.

When reading the news, my mind quickly brought back to the tragedy of flight MH 653 which exploded and crashed in Tanjung Kupang, ring fracture, Johor on December 4, 1977 where I was directly involved in making the coverage.

At that time I had just arrived to the house in Main Road, Malay Village Malay Majidee Star Office which is located at Jalan Dato 'In, Johor Bahru. As soon as the last evening prayers, phone berderiiiiiiiiiing.

"Hey Din, I can inform any plane fell near Tanjung Kupang there," said the friend reporters from Shin Min algae as soon as I lifted the phone. As soon as I mentioned earlier, I thank you.

I contacted The Star headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. Working the night (I forget who) has also received information but details have not been able to yet. They also find the source of her watch the news to get confirmation.

I shall telephone the Malay Straits Times Office in Jalan Dato 'In search for Osman Haron photographer. She is usually back a little later. Once able to contact Haron, I telephone a co-worker, Abdul Salam.

The darker the night. Local and foreign journalists also have begun flooding the Tanjung Kupang with their respective photographers. We report to headquarters every step of the way from time to time through public telephone booths.

In view of the area is so dark, we were not allowed to enter the crime scene. The military has also commenced operations reaching locate the crashed aircraft.

That night we only get the story from the villagers who heard explosions in the air and saw the fire ball drops and the speed dropped to the ground.

When relating to the headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, I was instructed to find a woman in the Larkin berbintikan Shain. On the information given, I and the photographer managed to trace the house in question. Women who ask to review is the wife of Dato 'Haji Ali Ahmad, one of the crash victims.

The next morning - December 5, 1977 ... ... we are early in the morning would be at Tanjung Kupang. Thus for the new morning I know women that I find today is the second wife of the late Dato 'Ali when I was told at a location that both my late wife was come into the police station and was also the first meeting between the two co-wife's wife.
When entering kekawasan tragedy, I saw that stuck taliperut twigs of trees and pieces of flesh scattered. Mangrove areas due to the incidence of burnt area is estimated at two miles. Mangrove leaves once green burnt burnt black.
Late Dato 'Ali at that time was Minister of Agriculture and he was among 93 passengers Boieng 737 MH 653 which exploded in the air before crashing to the area. Besides MAS seven crew were killed.
In addition, Dato 'Ali, were killed was Political Secretary, Fadzil Hood, a former teacher who had taught me as a "substitute teacher" for a time substitute teacher is not coming subjects.
MH 653 aircraft that crashed took off from Georgetown Airport Penang at about 7:21 pm heading to Kuala Lumpur. I do not know what's going on on the plane, when it declined to land were ordered to fly back to Singapore.
On arrival at Tanjung Kupang space, the villagers heard an explosion in the air and when to see drops of fire fell to the ground speed and the nose has gone into the swamp of mud there.

It was a heartbreaking view of the situation. Cooking, over two miles across the area which can be seen only find-find clothing that's stuck in the branches, there is no spouse shoes, bags and other goods carried by the victims of the crash.

Finally, the consent of all parties involved and responsible parties, a decision was reached so that all pieces of meat, hands, feet, and in connection with organ found buried in a tomb in Tea Plantation Street, Kuala Lumpur.

Now the mass burial monument is a visit not only the tourists who want to see it, but the families of the victims who came in his honor.

Although many stories to be heard between Tea Gardens Road to Tanjung Kupang bandied about a lot of people, but still going to go and at the end of December, 1977 I was in the direction switch to its headquarters in Jalan Chan Sow Lin, Kuala Lumpur.

Agenda Yahudi di Malaysia (Penutup)

Gog and Magog (Yakjuj dan Makjuj)

NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star 12.05.11

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This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

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This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first "habitable zone" planet discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. Candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets.

The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. The planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth. Scientists don't yet know if Kepler-22b has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, but its discovery is a step closer to finding Earth-like planets.

Previous research hinted at the existence of near-Earth-size planets in habitable zones, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Two other small planets orbiting stars smaller and cooler than our sun recently were confirmed on the very edges of the habitable zone, with orbits more closely resembling those of Venus and Mars.

"This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth's twin," said Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Kepler's results continue to demonstrate the importance of NASA's science missions, which aim to answer some of the biggest questions about our place in the universe."

Kepler discovers planets and planet candidates by measuring dips in the brightness of more than 150,000 stars to search for planets that cross in front, or "transit," the stars. Kepler requires at least three transits to verify a signal as a planet.

"Fortune smiled upon us with the detection of this planet," said William Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., who led the team that discovered Kepler-22b. "The first transit was captured just three days after we declared the spacecraft operationally ready. We witnessed the defining third transit over the 2010 holiday season."

The Kepler science team uses ground-based telescopes and the Spitzer Space Telescope to review observations on planet candidates the spacecraft finds. The star field that Kepler observes in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra can only be seen from ground-based observatories in spring through early fall. The data from these other observations help determine which candidates can be validated as planets.

Kepler-22b is located 600 light-years away. While the planet is larger than Earth, its orbit of 290 days around a sun-like star resembles that of our world. The planet's host star belongs to the same class as our sun, called G-type, although it is slightly smaller and cooler.

Of the 54 habitable zone planet candidates reported in February 2011, Kepler-22b is the first to be confirmed. This milestone will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.

The Kepler team is hosting its inaugural science conference at Ames Dec. 5-9, announcing 1,094 new planet candidate discoveries. Since the last catalog was released in February, the number of planet candidates identified by Kepler has increased by 89 percent and now totals 2,326. Of these, 207 are approximately Earth-size, 680 are super Earth-size, 1,181 are Neptune-size, 203 are Jupiter-size and 55 are larger than Jupiter.

The findings, based on observations conducted May 2009 to September 2010, show a dramatic increase in the numbers of smaller-size planet candidates.

Kepler observed many large planets in small orbits early in its mission, which were reflected in the February data release. Having had more time to observe three transits of planets with longer orbital periods, the new data suggest that planets one to four times the size of Earth may be abundant in the galaxy.

The number of Earth-size and super Earth-size candidates has increased by more than 200 and 140 percent since February, respectively.

There are 48 planet candidates in their star's habitable zone. While this is a decrease from the 54 reported in February, the Kepler team has applied a stricter definition of what constitutes a habitable zone in the new catalog, to account for the warming effect of atmospheres, which would move the zone away from the star, out to longer orbital periods.

"The tremendous growth in the number of Earth-size candidates tells us that we're honing in on the planets Kepler was designed to detect: those that are not only Earth-size, but also are potentially habitable," said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. "The more data we collect, the keener our eye for finding the smallest planets out at longer orbital periods."

NASA's Ames Research Center manages Kepler's ground system development, mission operations and science data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., managed Kepler mission development.

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., developed the Kepler flight system and supports mission operations with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore archives, hosts and distributes the Kepler science data. Kepler is NASA's 10th Discovery Mission and is funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters.

Related links:
- NASA’s Kepler Mission
- Kepler-22b and Kepler Science Conference News Briefing Press Kit
- NASA’s Ames Research Center

 

 

Michele Johnson, 650-604-4789
NASA Ames Research Center
michele.johnson@nasa.gov

Earth Had Two Moons That Crashed to Form One, Study Suggests

By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com – 8 hrs ago

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A tiny second moon may once have orbited Earth before catastrophically slamming into the other one, a titanic clash that could explain why the two sides of the surviving lunar satellite are so different from each other, a new study suggests.
The second moon around Earth would have been about 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) wide and could have formed from the same collision between the planet and a Mars-sized object that scientists suspect helped create the moon we see in the sky today, astronomers said.
The gravitational tug of war between the Earth and moon slowed the rate at which it whirls, such that it now always shows just one side to Earth. The far side of the moon remained a mystery for centuries until 1959, when the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft first snapped photos of it. (The far side is sometimes erroneously called the dark side, even though it has days and nights just like the near side.) [Video: How the Moon Was Made]
The moon has two faces
The moon's far side is very different than its near side.
For instance, widespread plains of volcanic rock called "maria" (Latin for seas) cover much of the near hemisphere, but only a few maria are seen on the far one. In addition, while the surface of the near side is mostly low and flat, the far side is often high and mountainous, with the lunar surface elevated 1.2 miles (1.9 km) higher on average on the far side.
Now computer simulations hint a second moon essentially pancaked itself against its larger companion, broadly explaining the differences seen between the near and far sides. [10 Coolest Moon Discoveries]
Their calculations suggest this second moon would have formed at the same time as our moon. Scientists have suggested that our moon was born from massive amounts of debris left over from a giant impact Earth suffered from a Mars-size body early on in the history of the solar system. Spare rubble might also have coalesced into another companion moon, one just 4 percent its mass and about 750 miles wide, or one-third of our moon's diameter.
Earth's second moon
To imagine where this other moon once was, picture the Earth and the moon as being two points in a triangle whose sides are equal in length.
The other point of such a triangle is known as a Trojan point, or a Lagrangian point, named after the mathematician who discovered them. At such a point, the gravitational attraction of the Earth and moon essentially balances out, meaning objects there can stay relatively stably. The Earth and moon have two Trojan points, one leading ahead of the moon, known as the L-4 point of the system, and one trailing behind, its L-5 point.
The researchers computed that this second moon could have stayed at a Trojan point for tens of millions of years. Eventually, however, this Trojan moon's orbit would have destabilized once our moon's orbit expanded far enough away from Earth.
The resulting collision would have been relatively slow at 4,500 to 6,700 miles per hour (7,200 to 10,800 kph), leading its matter to splatter itself across our moon as a thick extra layer of solid crust tens of miles thick instead of forming a crater.
"It is entirely plausible for a Trojan moon to have formed in the giant impact, and for it to go unstable after 10 million to 100 million years and leave its imprint on the moon," study coauthor Erik Asphaug, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told SPACE.com. Imagine "a ball of Gruyere colliding into a ball of cheddar."
Moon crash post mortem
The remains of this Trojan moon would make up the highlands now seen on our moon's far side. At the same time, the impact would have squished an underground ocean of magma toward the near side, explaining why phosphorus, rare-earth metals and radioactive potassium, uranium and thorium are concentrated in the crust there.
A number of explanations have been proposed for the far side's highlands, including one suggesting that gravitational forces were the culprits rather than an impact from Francis Nimmo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his colleagues. Nimmo said that for now there is not enough data to say which of the proposals offers the best explanation for this lunar contrast. "As further spacecraft data and, hopefully, lunar samples are obtained, which of these two hypotheses is more nearly correct will become clear," Nimmo said in a statement.
Asphaug and his colleague Martin Jutzi at the University of Bern in Switzerland detailed their findings in the August 4 issue of the journal Nature.
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Update from NBC News, May 2, 11:04 a.m. ET:

From NBC's Courtney Kube:

Seorang pegawai senior Amerika Syarikat mengatakan bahawa mereka masih memutuskan apakah akan menerbitkan masih foto bin Laden mati.

     "Ini benar-benar grafik," kata pegawai itu, menambah bahawa para pegawai AS berusaha untuk memutuskan apakah itu terlalu grafik untuk memadamkan.

New link, May 2, 10:50 a.m. ET:

From The Guardian: (Linked page contains graphic image):

Gambar berlumuran darah seorang laki-laki dengan rambut kusut dan mata kosong, setengah terbuka telah beredar di internet selama dua tahun terakhir. Ini digunakan di halaman depan Mail, Times, Telegraph, Sun dan website Mirror, meskipun cepat dihapuskan selepas palsu itu terkena di Twitter.

     Nampaknya gambar palsu awalnya diterbitkan oleh surat khabar Timur Tengah talian themedialine.org pada tarikh 29 April 2009, dengan amaran dari editor bahawa itu "tidak dapat memastikan apakah foto tersebut asli atau tidak".

Editor's note + update, May 2, 10:11 a.m. ET: 

Berdasarkan beberapa komen di bawah ini (saya juga menjawab inline sana), saya telah mengemas kini judul untuk memperjelas bahwa tulisan ini hanyalah sebagai usaha untuk menjelaskan bahawa satu gambar yang mengaku menjadi sesuatu adalah palsu fakta, bukan komen yang lebih besar pada berita penting bahawa Osama bin Laden tewas oleh pasukan AS. Untuk mengikuti laporan kami pada serangan yang membunuhnya, membaca cerita Bill Dedman di sini.

Sementara itu, kerajaan AS mengatakan mereka mempunyai imej tubuh bin Laden dan sedang mempertimbangkan apakah dan kapan untuk membebaskan mereka. Menurut The Los Angeles Times:

     Selama operasi, foto wajahnya dihantar ke penganalisis, yang disahkan pengenalan.

     Menurut pegawai Pentagon, foto wajah mati Bin Laden memang ada tetapi mereka secara luas diedarkan di internet adalah palsu. Pada titik tertentu, jika hanya untuk meyakinkan mati-keras Bin Laden pengikut, para pegawai diharapkan untuk menerbitkan foto mayat, seperti yang telah dilakukan di masa lalu ketika penjahat terkenal seperti Che Guevara dan Presiden Iraq Saddam Hussein dibunuh atau ditangkap. Selain itu, ops khas seperti biasanya dirakam oleh Cams mini-helm untuk mendokumentasikan sebuah misi yang sensitif dan membantu dalam pembekalan dan latihan masa depan.

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Grafik gambar dibawah ini: Perlu diperingatkan bahawa sebuah gambar yang lebih rendah di atas posting ini kelihatan seperti wajah berdarah mayat. Beberapa penonton mungkin akan mengganggu. Kami tidak berfikir luka-luka adalah nyata, tapi anda masih mungkin tidak mahu melihatnya.

Gambar yang beredar di Internet dan dipaparkan pada beberapa program berita televisyen luar negeri bertujuan untuk menunjukkan mayat berdarah Osama bin Laden. Tidak ada AS atau pegawai Pakistan telah menegaskan ketulenannya, dan dua pejabat AS telah memberi amaran kepada NBC News bahawa gambar adalah tipuan.

Berdasarkan paparan awal ke fail imej, kami setuju, dan berfikir itu palsu. Pada pandangan pertama, pixelation sekitar kawasan "luka" dan kurangnya aneh peralihan antara kain berwarna berbeza dan daging menunjukkan bahawa gambar telah dimanipulasi.

Selain itu, ekspresi wajah dan janggut sangat mengingatkan pada gambar 1998 bin Laden, gambar pertama di bawah ini. Di samping itu, kami menunjukkan resolusi asli dari gambar "mayat" seperti yang kita telah melihatnya (197 by 263 pixel), "menjatuhkan diri" 180 darjah pada paksi melintang agar sesuai dengan orientasi janggut gambar 1998 asli. Gambar ketiga adalah gambar campuran dari dua, dengan gambar "mayat" di 100 opacity peratus di bawah gambar asli di opacity 43 peratus. Cara gambar "kunci" di tempat di janggut, mulut dan hidung menunjukkan kepada kita bahawa gambar yang beredar di web dan beberapa outlet televisyen asing tidak lain adalah palsu:

Gambar di sebelah kiri adalah fail imej dari Reuters. Pusat Gambar dihantar dalam oleh sejumlah pembaca sebagai lampiran e-mel - itu asalnya awal tidak diketahui. Gambar di sebelah kanan adalah campuran dari dua orang lain yang kita buat di sini di msnbc.com.