Year of Biodiversity and Tiger Updates

UN's International Year of Biodiversity is really taking off. Besides educating about biodiversity, there is a PUMA ad campaign, constant press releases, inspiring stories of people and groups doing what they can to promote a healthy world, and so much more! They are even partnering with WWF to promote Earth Hour, which is coming soon.

The website is loaded with all kinds of informative videos, podcasts, photos, and other goodies designs to inspire and educate. There is even a calendar with all the events that are going on for this year. Truly, UNEP has done a fabulous job with trying to get the message out there.

On the other end, the WWF year of the tiger isn't doing so bad either! They are constantly releasing articles on the fight for the tiger like this one about Chinese medicine societies rejecting tiger bones. This is a very big step to conserving these amazing creatures.

So between learning about awesome animals here on Potspoon!, reading up on biodiversity, learning about tigers and how you can help, and the upcoming Earth Hour, how have you been impacting your world?

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Kicking up moon dust.

Hi everyone! An exciting event is scheduled for October 8th and/or 9th. LCROSS or Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, will be sending its upper stage booster rocket flying toward the south pole of the moon. The impacts ejecta will be studied and analyzed for evidence of water in the moons crust. But enough of that science jargon the question you are probably asking is, "Can we see it?" The answer is "yes"; unfortunately if you do not own a fairly large telescope it may be tough if not impossible. But fear not the live video will be shown on NASA TV or you can contact your local Astronomical Society and see if they have arranged a viewing. The crater that is calculated to be the resting place for this upper tage rocket is Cabeus-A, it is near the southern pole of the moon. There is also tons of information if you click on the title of this post. I will be trying to upload a video of the impact here on Potspoon! for those of you that may have cloudy skies, no tv or telescope. So for now go study a moon chart, look up your local Astronomy club or find out where you can watch NASA TV. I will continue to update you later. :-)

-AstroTodd

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