Save the Mountain - A Poem by Venkatesh M.R.

Feeling the habitation of earth

It bestowed grace to its growth

Never looking away or making delay

It helped the beings all the way.

 

In sunshine and rain

It driven the being in azure lane

But people are stepping into it for gain

Still it is laughing although suffering from pain.

 

Make its image in your heart stay

And join in its fight to save the day

Since happy and prospers you will be               

If abode of Almighty always shines with glee.

 

The Earth Has a Second Moon, And No One Noticed All This While

Researchers have discovered that an object, now dubbed 2020 CD3, has been gravitationally bound to earth for about three years now. And it is only now that we have discovered it. It was on February 19 that astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spotted a dim object moving quickly across the sky somewhere close to earth. The same object was then observed by researchers at six more observatories around the world who confirmed the presence of what can now be considered a minimoon. The researchers say the new and perhaps temporary minimoon is probably between 1.9 meters and 3.5 metres across, which is around the same size as a mid-size car.

Astronomers say that the new minimoon orbit isn’t stable, and the 2020 CD3 could eventually catapult itself away from Earth. “It is heading away from the Earth-moon system as we speak,” says Grigori Fedorets at Queen’s University Belfast in the UK, told the New Scientist. Incidentally, this isn’t the first-time earth has had an additional moon, albeit temporarily. In 2006, the 2006 RH120 remained within the earth’s gravitational pull between September 2006 and June 2007 before it managed to wriggle free. Chances are, this minimoon will too.

Scientists Finally Know How Long A Day Is On Saturn.

Using new data from the now extinct Cassini mission, scientists led by the University of California-Santa Cruz found that a year on Saturn is 29 Earth years.

Scientists Are Slowly Unlocking The Secrets Of The Earth's Mysterious Hum.

It's comforting to think of Earth as solid and immovable, but that's false. The world is vibrating, stretching and compressing. We're shaking right along with it.

Solar Eclipse Could Wipe Out Enough Power To Supply 7 Million Homes In US

A solar eclipse on August 21 will cast a shadow along a 113-kilometer corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina in the US and could wipe wipe out power equivalent of about nine nuclear reactors.

Planet Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Named after the Roman god of agriculture, its astronomical symbol (♄) represents the god's sickle. Saturn is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. While only one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times more massive

Rain Forest of Republic of Congo

Canoes are vital for transportation on the rain forest rivers of the Republic of the Congo. The Congo Basin’s 500 million acres of tropical forest, second-largest in the world after the Amazon, are known for an incredible array of wildlife including great apes, forest elephants, and some 700 species of river fish. But people have also lived here for over 50,000 years. The Congo Basin currently provides water and food to about 75 million Africans.

Meteor Shower

Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, the source of the Draconid meteor shower, is seen in a 1998 picture.

The possibility of a meteor storm has NASA and other spacecraft operators keeping keen eyes on how the Draconids might affect the International Space Station (ISS) and other satellites currently in Earth's orbit.