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Group Scenarios

dmullernet — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:52:11 +0000

The scenarios for the last group games at the 2010 soccer world-cup are as follows:

Group B:

Argentina beats Greece & Korea beats / draws Nigeria: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea
Argentina beats Greece & Nigeria beats Korea: 1. Argentina, 2. Nigeria
Argentina draws Greece & Korea beats Nigeria: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea
Argentina draws Greece & Korea draws Nigeria: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea (unless Greece scored 2 or more goals more than Korea, then Greece is 2nd)
Argentina draws Greece & Nigeria beats Korea: 1. Argentina, 2. Greece
Greece beats Argentina by 1 & Korea beats Nigeria by 4: 1. Korea, 2. Argentina
Greece beats Argentina by 1 & Korea beats Nigeria by 2 or 3: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea
Greece beats Argentina by 1 & Korea beats Nigeria by 1: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea (unless Greece scores 2 or more goals more than Korea, then Greece is 2nd)
Greece beats Argentina by 1 & Nigeria draws/beats Korea: 1. Argentina, 2. Greece
Greece beats Argentina by 2 & Korea beats Nigeria by 3 or 4: 1. Korea, 2. Argentina
Greece beats Argentina by 2 & Korea beats Nigeria by 2: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea (unless Greece scores 2 or more goals more than Korea, then Greece is 2nd)
Greece beats Argentina by 2 & Korea beats by 1 / draw / lose to Nigeria: 1. Argentina, 2. Greece

Spaceoutreach will be back

dmullernet — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:36:20 +0000

Spaceoutreach.com has been temporally suspended. To be back in the future …

Books by Colin Burgess

dmullernet — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:46:52 +0000

Colin Burgess has written a series of interesting books on manned spaceflight and aviation. Some of them can be found at the University of Nebraska Press website. His books include:

Australia’s Astronauts: Countdown to a Spaceflight Dream, 2009
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies, with Rex Hall, 2009
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969, with Francis French, 2007
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965, with Francis French, 2007
Animals In Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle, with Chris Dubbs, 2007
NASA’s Scientist-Astronauts, with David Shayler, 2006
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes who Died Reaching for the Moon, with Kate Doolan, 2003
Teacher In Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy, 2000
Australia’s Astronauts: Three Men and a Spaceflight Dream, 1999
Oceans to Orbit: The Story of Australia’s First Man in Space, Paul Scully-Power, 1995
Space, the New Frontier, 1987

Mars Express orbital data is now available

dmullernet — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:55:07 +0000

The Mars Express realtime simulation at http://www.dmuller.net/mex now includes trajectory information on the spacecrafts orbit around Mars on a trial basis. Unfortunately I have problems uploading data for Phobos so at present information regarding distance etc. to Phobos cannot be displayed. Working on it.

Voyager 2 Data Adjustment

dmullernet — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:46:13 +0000

Voyager 2 trajectory data has been adjusted to match output by the Voyager 2 team tweets. Data provided in JPL’s Horizons system was about 2 light seconds (~600,000km) off.

Ready for Rhea and Helene

dmullernet — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:54:48 +0000

The realtime simulation of the Cassini mission has been updated to show the upcoming close encounters with Rhea and Helene (March 2 & 3). Unfortunately, the solar system simulator does not have Helene in it so I cannot link in the usual simulated views.

Mission Tweets

dmullernet — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:04:54 +0000

The Voyager 2 realtime simulation now shows the mission tweets. Hope to expand that to more mission and other pages on the site.

EDIT: This feature is now also available for Herschel, Planck, Kepler, MSL (Curiosity), MESSENGER, Spirit, Opportunity, New Horizons and Cassini

Display Errors Fixed

dmullernet — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:57:40 +0000

Whilst upgrading the background processes to allow for the upcoming Cassini multiple flybys, I have also fixed some errors that occurred in missions where there is no distance flown information available.

Soccer: Euro 2012 Qualifiers Draw

dmullernet — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:55:23 +0000

Qualifying Status as at 10 Feb 2010:

Co-hosts (2): Poland, Ukraine
Group winners (9): Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E, Group F, Group G, Group H, Group I
Best runner-up (1): best runner-up
Winners of play-offs (4): Play-off 1, Play-off 2, Play-off 3, Play-off 4

Groups:

A: Germany, Turkey, Austria, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan
B: Russia, Slovakia, Ireland, Macedonia, Armenia, Andorra
C: Italy, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands
D: France, Romania, Bosnia, Belarus, Albania, Luxembourg
E: Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Moldova, San Marino
F: Croatia, Greece, Israel, Latvia, Georgia, Malta
G: England, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Wales, Montenegro
H: Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Cyprus, Iceland
I: Spain, Czech Republic, Scotland, Lithuania, Liechtenstein

Saturn Extended Extended Mission Approved

dmullernet — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:17:08 +0000

The Cassini mission had its extended-extended mission approved and will run until 15 Sep 2017 when it will be deliberately crashed into Saturn (to protect Titan from Earthlings contamination). I have uploaded the new timeline as well as the general trajectory (the data that the system will fall back on when the segment trajectory data runs out). The latest segment trajectory is up as well and runs to early March 2010. Go Cassini!