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by NowIsForever
Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:43 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Falcon 9 Launches to Orbit (2010 Jun 08)
Replies: 70
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Re: APOD: Falcon 9 Launches to Orbit (2010 Jun 08)

the guy wrote:it was a wasp, like a black one...
Yeah, at T - 3 seconds, and it was traveling backwards...

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by NowIsForever
Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:40 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Iridium, Cosmos collision (APOD 2009 Feb 18)
Replies: 38
Views: 7830

Re: Iridium, Cosmos collision (APOD 2009 Feb 18)

In the upper left of this APOD a caption states: Time (UTCG): 10 Feb 2009 16:55:38. I searched the net for the meaning of UTCG and found nothing but a few references like the one above that referred to satellite navagation. Unfortunately, none of these sites indicated a definition of UTCG time. I pr...