Asteroid coming close to Earth at 42 lakhs km

Asteroid coming close to Earth at 42 lakhs km

You must have heard about asteroids coming close to Earth and about to collide. Looks like a fairy tale. But this is true. February 4, 2018 which is less than a week from now will witness this when asteroid called “2002 AJ129” will zip past Earth at a speed of 1 lakh kmph and is designated potentially hazardous by NASA scientists. This is potentially hazardous because the asteroid which is 1.1 Km wide will fly about 42 lakhs Km away from Earth which is considered very close in space terms….

Team Indus plans Beer on Moon

Team Indus plans Beer on Moon

Bangalore based Team Indus is working on cracking recipe for growing beer on Moon. Earlier this week a question was asked in Parliament if Government has any plans of growing beer on Moon. The government has refused any such plan in parliament. However Team Indus is experimenting on brewing beer on Moon using Yeast. The purpose is to brew a small batch of beer to test the survivability of yeast in space and see how it performs in Moon’s gravity. Team Indus is competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE of…