Saturday, August 27, 2005

Weekly Blog

About Symbiosis Exams:
Study material which they provided is upto Symbiosis level, however exams are more practical oriented. Even if you fully through the book will not be sufficient to attend the exams. Then how to prepare for exams? Go through the book, do some case study on each and every chapter after then have to have practicle knowledge and lot of general knowledge.

An intersting incident happend last week. I parked my vehicle in front of my examination center(Arena, CMH Road, Indra nagar) and went for my exam, is about 1 hr. When I came back from after my exams, I found my vehicle was missing. What to do? it's a new vehicle brought 2 months back only. I was tensed, started sweating and I dont have idea to do further. Then mentally recovered to search for it. I went to nearest Traffic Police station in CMH Road and have been diverted to Indra Nagar Police station as it was a missing case. There, Inspector was really helpful questioned me what was happend. After getting my answers he cleared to me that and told me a fact. Fact was that, I parked my vehicle in NO PARKING area. So sincere traffic department has taken vehicle to their custody. Where? there is no GOOGLE to search for it. Got a news that toed vehicles will be found in Biappanahalli police station. I went to the police station and found my was there and tied with big iron chain(like manohara Sivaji). Again I found that police station is for Criminal Cases(hahhha), at the same time they told traffic police will come there to release the vehicle after getting the penalty(?!). I found few guys are also waiting to realse their vehicles, started chatting with those guys(kashtathilum comedythan). TrafficInspector came after 20 mins with some more vehicles(pity owners). And he asked to come in queue to collect the vehicles. As a first person I went to collect the vehicle, he asked for Rs.300/- and given a reciept for Rs.100/-. I shocked and started starring, but he given one more reciept for another Rs.200/-. Sincere Sigamani. Moral of this story is DONT PARK THE VEHICLE IN NO PARKING AREA.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Asphalt Godowns to an IT Company

Since Indian IT Company's architecture are started competing with best world architects, an pretty old Asphalt tobacco godown has been renovated to Beautiful IT Software Company in Bangalore.

Driving from the airport into this city that has become India's technology hub, visitors are struck by the gleam of steel-and-glass high-rise office and apartment buildings with names like Golden Enclave and Diamond District. Farther along, dozens of box-shaped, glass-encased buildings carry signboards of the biggest Western high-tech companies.

In contrast to these unabashed clones of buildings in Palo Alto or San Jose is a 37-acre campus in the heart of the city whose granite- and terra cotta-adorned buildings are set among decades-old trees and painted in vibrant Indian shades of brick red and deep green. The buildings have names from the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit, while the rooms within are named after the ancient books of learning, the Vedas. Every morning the Indian flag is ceremonially hoisted on a central flagpole, an unusual practice for businesses here. At lunchtime, the chirping of birds mixes with the chatter of workers in the open spaces . Young men in jeans and polo shirts and women in colorful salwar kameez (an Indian tunic and trouser suit) linger along the stone-paved avenues.

The campus, with its distinctive architecture, is the headquarters of a four-year-old outsourcing company called ITC Infotech. With 4,000 employees and $55 million in revenues, the company's professed philosophy is not to let its workplace be an imitation of countless modern buildings. Flouting the local fashion for buildings with names like Hi-Tech Tower or Software Techcity, the company calls its campus simply the ITC Infotech Park. As its managing director, Sanjay Verma said, "This campus reflects our Indian-ness."

The tranquil expanse that blends the old and the new provides relief amid the concrete and glass structures in Bangalore, a city that the World Bank lists as among the fastest growing in the world. The country's biggest domestic outsourcing companies like Infosys Technologies and Wipro are headquartered here, as are the Indian branches of multinationals like Intel and Texas Instruments.

In the last decade, the boom in the outsourcing of services from Western countries has brought about a construction explosion in the once quiet and orderly Bangalore. Call center and software services companies have grabbed whatever high-rise buildings that have sprouted up, as if overnight, with scant regard to urban planning or design.

"Companies say, 'We need a million square feet of space,' then go to their laptops and slap aluminum and glass over the million square feet," said Bob Hoekstra, head of the software division at Philips Electronics India.

Mr. Hoekstra, who is campaigning for the local government to improve facilities like roads, traffic systems and public transport, said multinationals like Intel and SAP AG had given little thought to aesthetics. "Intel's campus looks like a parking lot with a building in the middle; SAP's resembles the Frankfurt airport," he said.

In the new buildings of Bangalore, and other outsourcing centers like nearby Chennai or Gurgaon in the suburbs of New Delhi, academics see an eagerness to conform to what is perceived here as the Western taste.

"Companies psychologically feel that their Western clients want to come here and see something that looks familiar and efficient," said Aparna Narasimhan, an architect at the Bangalore-based firm Venkataramanan Associates, which has designed buildings for Infosys and General Electric.

When ITC Infotech set out three years ago to plan its campus, it bucked such trends. Opportunely, its parent, ITC Ltd., a 100-year-old cigarette maker with interests in hotels, apparel and food products, offered its defunct tobacco manufacturing complex in central Bangalore. But one architect after another suggested the same plan: bulldoze the 36 tobacco warehouses and replace them with glass-and-steel high-rises. Mr. Verma, ITC Infotech's top executive, who first joined the parent company as a young shift engineer at this tobacco complex in 1981, found this idea repugnant. Finally, the company came to the Bangalore-based architect Krishnarao Jaisim, who agreed with Mr. Verma that the old structures and environment were worth preserving.

Mr. Jaisim, whose firm is named Jaisim Fountainhead, in reference to the Ayn Rand novel, said his work had always been defined by the book's central character, the architect Howard Roark.

"I read the book in the 1960's; it has been my moral guideline ever since," he said. The book influenced him to work on his own terms and abhor commercialism, he said.

For ITC Infotech, Mr. Jaisim said he wanted to come up with a plan that would retain the character of the old warehouses while upgrading them.

"When I started, the warehouses stank of tobacco and every road was covered with asphalt," he said.

Three years later, two dozen of the warehouses have been modified to seat hundreds of workers each, and most of the streets have been paved with local stone. The architect retained the shell of the old high-ceilinged warehouses. Besides the strikingly minimal use of glass and steel, these buildings have unusual new touches: walls made of hollow terra-cotta blocks, flat stone tables and acoustic-friendly ceilings that are fashioned out of earthen pots. The giant century-old chimney, ancient trees and even an old fire station have been left standing.

One jarring note is the unusual number of smokers on the campus. Unlike other outsourcing firms, where smoking is frowned upon, at this subsidiary of India's biggest cigarette maker the practice is not discouraged.

The distinctive marks of the company's ideas have paid off for ITC Infotech in unexpected ways.

"Many employees feel a strong sense of pride in their unique campus," said Anirvan Mukherjee, a systems analyst who joined ITC Infotech nearly three years ago.

"One of the high points of working here is the campus," said Mr. Mukherjee, adding that his workplace was the envy of all his friends.

Mr. Verma said that in Bangalore, where competition for skilled talent is intense, "Our campus is a great differentiator."

It is a refreshing change from the "clipped, almost Californian, presentation of the typical campus" said Simon P. Bentley, vice president for application development at DHL, one of ITC Infotech's customers. Mr. Bentley said it is a "beautiful oasis in the midst of the daily noise and difficulty" of life in Bangalore. It was as comfortable and efficient as his own offices in Scottsdale, Ariz., he said, but with a "more enviable" natural environment.

Aesthetic examples such as ITC Infotech are rare, said Kamal Sagar, a Bangalore architect whose firm, Total Environment, prides itself on creating structures that incorporate greenery and local building materials.

"Every company wants to outdo the other," said Mr. Sagar, citing the spaceship- and Sydney Opera House-inspired food courts at Infosys's headquarters and its plans to build origami-shaped buildings in nearby Mysore. "Companies like Infosys and Wipro have the power to shape Bangalore's skyline," he said, "and so they should."

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Exam Time

Since I have PGDBA-Exam (Symbiosis) I am taking a small break for this week and will comtinue my blogging from next week onwards(Tam & Eng).

Friday, August 19, 2005

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Kannada Films

I have taken a review of Kannada Films and gathered few interesting news about this industry. I will post it in phase by phase as it has long story behind. This R&D started all beacuse of Prasad,Anil(AR) & Siddappa. Sorry to Prasad where We( Tamil CSC) used to crack jokes on Kannada Movies.

Let we start from 60's

In the 60’s and 70’s, of course the films were different and indeed look refreshing even if watched now. This is because they contain evergreen stories, thoroughly prepared screenplays, extraordinary lyrics to songs, excellent & committed performances by the artistes & technicians. Hence, one can detect very few flaws in those films.

In the 80’s, it started showing the monotony. Most of the films contained one famous formula: A hero, who initially is easy-going with few romances with his girl, continues enjoying his life. Suddenly there is a flashback which enlightens him about the story of maybe his parents attacked and tortured by the villains. In the meantime hero himself experiences bitter moments with these villains. Few songs, a rape scene, few ugly comedy scenes etc. to complete the masala. And towards the end, the villains create the ultimate trouble by kidnapping someone that hero is fondly attached with. And then, there is that lengthy climax which enhances the glory of hero over villains. Usually the film would end with a happy-note, maybe a bit of sentiment with somebody sacrificing their life.
In 90s, another trend emerged. An easy-going hero falls in love with the heroine through mere eye-contact. He conveys it to her; she hesitates initially and finally succumbs. Few hiccups due to either families, economic-communal differences or some other villains. So hero does all the heroics to come out of this. Heroine is just a glam-doll through out the film. And finally the film ends with the superlative message like, “namma preethige jaya” or sometimes, “premigalu sattharoo preethige saavilla”.

So people can’t find stories for films, can’t even make considerable alterations in screenplays or at least change the narration-style.

In the late 90s and 20th century, they got a so-called fresh concept. It was indeed fresh when it was all started by Sunil Kumar Desai in “Beladhingala Bale”. This is the concept where, the hero and heroine love unknowing each other. A telephone, letter, email or even a piano or violin would be the mediator for them. And some times they even know each other, but mistake some body else as their lover who comes in their way—maybe one among the three would be playing the game.

OK, at least here there is a fair share for both hero and heroine to perform. But how long can we tolerate this concept. To name few of the films which followed this trend are: Yaare Neenu Cheluve, Kushalave Kshemave, Heart beats, Jodi, Chora chittha chora, Ninagaagi, Kanasugaara, Excuse me, Romeo matthu Juliet, etc. etc. (Know there are far too many films other than these and most of them are remakes too).

There is something called creativity in any ART and one needs to enjoy the work of film-making. Of course, few of would argue that this is the story of any other Indian language films too. But there are other reasons too for which Kannadiga's are struggling this way.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

7 ideas to Make Positive

Listed below are seven ideas that really work to help you think more positive. Life is difficult, but there are things you can do to lighten your load. See if some of these don't help.

Teach Yourself A Lesson

In counseling this technique is called reframing. You take a bad experience and try to define what it is that you can learn from this experience that will make your life better. It is a way of turning pain to gain.


Interrupt Your Negative Thoughts

Research shows that if you continue to think negatively, you will feel more negative. Interrupting those thoughts and replacing them with positive memories can be extremely helpful in creating more positive energy.


Set Realistic Goals

Positive thinkers have learned how to meet their objectives. They set standards that are neither too high nor too low. They feel a sense of accomplishments when they complete tasks on their daily "to do" list. Realistic goals must be specific and they must be achievable.


Be Good To Yourself

You need to define those things that make you feel good and as often as you can incorporate them into your life. We know that positive reinforcement works. You need to reinforce yourself with the things that you value and enjoy.


Look For The Silver Lining

While it is true that negative things do happen and that there are times, when we seem to be overwhelmed by them, it is important that positive things do, in fact happen. Take time each day to write down or think about positive things that occurred in your day. It could be as simple as looking at a beautiful cloud, or hearing a song that you really enjoy.


Be Glad It's Not Worse

This technique simply put says, while my situation may be bad, it indeed could be worse. An example would be that you break your wrist, but that's better than being paralyzed for the rest of your life from the waist down. While sometimes our situation is as bad as it gets, usually, in most of our situations, we can find things that are worse.


Fake It

Charlie Chaplin once said, "Smile though your heart is breaking." While it is important to get in touch with our feelings, being able to tell a joke, put a smile on our face, or do something that is absurdly pleasurable can help the discomfort of our lives go away.
Consider whether any of these techniques help you think more positively.

Friday, August 05, 2005

Yahoo-Audio Search

As Yahoo started competing with Google yesterday they introduced the test version of a service that lets people search more than 50 million music and other audio files on the Internet. I remember, Altavista started this feature a few years back and most of us dont know about this feature with Altavista. Google and Yahoo are in the competetion and not able to find Altavista is in this competetion. Why?

For search Audio through Yahoo http://audio.search.yahoo.com

Some chotta motta company will be loosing their product even though having good feature when some big company is using the same technology.

Was Altavista has been acquired by big companies?

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

My New Web Site

My Dear Bloggers,

I would like to inform you all the I moving all my blogs to my new web site www.ilamurugu.com by phase. I request you all who are all having my blog link as www.binarywaves.blogspot.com change it to www.ilamurugu.com. Sorry for the inconveinience.

Monday, August 01, 2005

(s)Log(o)an

Bloggers,

I would like to have an web logo for my new web(will be announced later). Please suggest me a new logo which is visible on top-->left corner on your web page.
Also a slogan (Just Build a Better You-existing one)

Shoot your comments.

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Anniyan Vs Ganguly

Just for FUN,
For: Who knows about Anniyan, else continue with your valuable work
Ambi: Mr ganguly y r u shouting at the umpire, after you have been declared out ??? athu sattapadi thapu Sir.
Ganguly: Dey kudumi, naa yaar theriyuma Bengal tiger appidithan kathuvein.
Ambi: Kenya,bangaldesh kooda century adikirelae australia, Pakistan na 1 bathroom poralae yein sir?
Ganguly: naan dhaadhaa da, thevayana apo matum than aaduvein.
Ambi: Mr ganguly captains like ponting, inzy, smith ellarum century adichu team jeyika vaikara, aana neengo aadave matiringale?
Ganguly:dey kudumi,athan sachin, dravid, sehwag ellam century adikiraanungala apuram naan yethuku adikanum
Ambi: Alatchiyama pesathingo Mr ganguly, aduthava talentla fame gain pandrathu thapu!!
Ganguly:Poda kudumi, yenake advice pandriya @#%@^#$%^@$%^$%^$%^

Anniyan:DEY BAADU..........
Ganguly: yaaruga neenga gillespi maathiri hair style vachurikeenga???
Anniyan : naan avan ila da yema , yenda run adika ve maatingara,
Ganguly: Batting form appo appo vanthutu pogum, cricketla ithellam sagajam thanga.....
Anniyan : ippidi soli thapichidalaamnu paakiriya.....
Anniyan: oru matchla 5 run mattum edutha thapa?????????
Ganguly:onum thapu ilinga......
Anniyan: 5 matchla 5 run edutha thapa?????????
Ganguly:thapu maathiri thanga theriyuthu..........
Anniyan: 5 varushama 5,5 matcha 5 run edutha thapa?????????
Ganguly: periya thapu thaanga...........
Anniyan: kamunati athathanda oruoru matchalayum nee panikitu iruka
Anniyan: unakellam karuda puranampadi ballbojanam thanda, @#(&@(^#@%#$^@)^@^$#)@^$#.

Thanks to Hari for Sharing this.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Beware: Pirated Windows


India is the 2nd largest in Pirating softwares and movies in the world. 90% of home users (assembled) are having pirated softwares, not only OS all of the remianing packages available. Now, Microsoft want to apply a brake for this. For updates previously what we will do, just click on windows update and get download all the patches, Service Packs to our systems. It cannot be done from next monday.

How? What was previously a voluntary program to ensure the legitimacy of Windows installs is now mandatory. Microsoft has flipped the switch on Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0, requiring that users of Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center validate their operating systems.
Security updates will remain widely available, however, muffling criticism that a crackdown will lead to untold numbers of hacked and zombified systems.

The program works by downloading an ActiveX control for validation. Once deemed genuine, a download key is produced for future downloads. One benefit is that Windows users will no longer have to enter their 25-digit product keys for validation.

Microsoft's aim is to put a dent into the software counterfeit market, which according to the Business Software Alliance is costing vendors billions of dollars a year.

The program also rewards unwitting users of pirated Windows by offering free legit copies if they take the time to fill out a report, mail their counterfeit install CDs and provide a receipt. Those that only fill out a piracy report can score real versions of XP Home and Pro at discounted prices ($99 Home, $149 Pro).

So Bloggers make sure that you are working with Original OS.....

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Job Search

Job Search

Not for me

One of my cousin who is in my house started searching job in Indian Silicon Valley. First of all he just cleared his final semester (BE-IT) and came to the market to sell himself for a better price. He usually tells about the day-day activities to me. First he tried for some call center jobs. I was in thought that Call centers are welcoming the freshers with red carpet, which is absolutely wrong. Call center are looking for science & arts graduates not engineering freshers. Reason: Engineering freshers will jump to Software companies if they get a chance.

Next Software companies, Last week I heard that 27000 people written the exam for TCS(most of them are freshers). So assume the competition among freshers. The guys who got selected campus are very lucky. Are the campus recuited are all from IT? Certainly not. They are from Elec, Elec Comm, IT, Comp Sci., Civil, Mech, Mettalrgy majors. What a guy will do if done his graduation in Civil and writing code in C++. The efforts which he put for his civil are all goes Vain. However we cannot underestimate students now. They are very sharp now, grasping the market level in final year and tuning themselves to sell to the market. Back to the point, my cousin's worry is that he cannot compete with the other major students who is having strong funda in Computers with some certifications.

So the ultimate point is that, graduation never matters to enter or stick to IT field. Get some certifications, good in communication gets the jobs for freshers ASAP.

Dont wait for the job to hit you, hit the jobs with your skills.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Advt.

Nowadays, advertising is intersting than the programmes which are all broadcasted in TV. Some advertisements are really good, some realy sucks..

The Liril Advertisement is the one which affected me directly. When I was staying in a PG those guys started calling me how Advt does, pity thing is that Advt shows how a man seducting a woman @ last vice versa also. Advt goes like this La ILA ILA ILa ....

Kwalitywalls advertisement. it crossed all the limits, it is almost like a blue film if you think @ that way, tooooooooooo much.

HDFC- Really touching the heart. Train arrives to the station and dad will try to get down from it. Son gives his hand for support. Dad (60yrs) avoids his support and he will get down. Now Dad gives the hand to his wife she also avoids that. Finally the grandson will fell and trying to standup everybody waits there to get up himself. Great idea.

Horlicks- Once upon a time Advertisements were copied from Film songs. nowadays it become vice versa. In such movies like Jithan songs are copied from Advt.

Anyway the worth of effort for Advt. are improved very much. Rajiv Menon, called as the Guru for Advt.. Also AR Rahman from Jingles only. Hatsoff to those people who improved this Industry like any thing.

Friday, July 15, 2005

Fido



My Fav. cartoon characters are Tom & Jerry and Fido Dido. First time when I have seen the advt of 7up Lehar, i got inspired Fido. Then I used to draw Fidos like cooking, driving (ithu thana time to disclose I do sketch). I got some few interesting new about Fido, I like to share with you all

Fido Dido is a cartoon character licensed to Pepsico for their 7UP brand (in the United States, 7up's country of origin, it is not a Pepsico brand, however it is, in foreign markets). The character was created by Joanna Ferrone in 1985 on a Napkin in a restaurant. He was licensed to Pepsico in the 1980s but the character was never used until the early 1990s on numerous products, particularly stationery. He was first licensed by Pepsico in the early 1980s and, after a short break, reappeared in the 2000s.

Monday, July 11, 2005

Trip

Myself, Cogito and 2 of our friends gone for Religiuos trip this sunday, anyway Cogito will be updating the trip details have a glimps of few pictures

Lord Gomateeshwara:

In Kannada shravana indicates the Jain Tirthankars and belgola means a white lake. Shravanabelgola, a Jain shrine that is a must if you are on a temple safari, is 84 km from Halebid via Hassan, 52 km from Hassan, 86 from Belur, 115 Mysore and Bangalore 155 km. This town at an altitude of 3056 ft is about l'/2 hr journey by bus from Hassan. Famed as a Jain shrine in the past, it still has people remembering its ancient heritage. In 3 BC the Indian emperor Chandragupta Maurya came from his realm to Shravanabelgola accompanied by his. Guru Bhadrabahuswami and was converted to Jainism.. In the course of time, under the patronage of the Ganga kings, Jainism spread between 4 to 10th centuries. Accord­ing to legend, the first Tirthankar or Guru of the Jains, Rishava Nath, abdicated the throne and entered a forest to do penance. His two sons, Vahuvali and Bharat clashed over power. Though Vahuvali won, he left the throne to his vanquished brother and went on banprastha or renounced the world for 1000 years. The 17.5 m high unadorned statue of Vahuvali seems to preach the tenets of renunciation and self-control. This mono­lithic stone statue built in 983 at the initiative of Chamundraya, a minister of the Ganga kings and executed by Aristonemi the sculp­tor, is the highest in the world. However, the figure of Baon Gajaji curved amidst the mountains in the Narmada valley of Madhya Pradesh, though not monolithic, is 87 ft high

Mylapore Theppa Kulam?




No, it is not. It is a tank which is in SharavaBelagola, photo was taken from the top of the hill.


Halabeedu:





Looking for a Bright Future?

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Terror will not win




My Dream is to settle down in London,UK as the people and the culture inspired me to stay there for a long time.



A series of explosions has ripped across central London, killing at least 37 people and injuring many hundreds more. Again a Marid, 9/11, why????? G8 or collapse UK's Pound value, revenge as they joint with USA for War? No answers.

G8, save yourself and then try to helpout other countires.
India is shouting against Terrorism asking for help from UN to overcome Kashmir issue, I believe they will feel the pain of India atleast now and help us to kill the terror creatures in India.

Bombers! down down. Dont spoil lives and hopes.

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Personal Tag

Personal Tag

It’s the personal Tag now. Cogito & Cernar have tagged me.


THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF

I look much younger than my age
Pazham
Thiruttu Muzhi(TY:Genisis)


THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU

Spam Filters in office where I am working, blocking messengers ..

Hangover after heavy bo....

After completing techinical exams, exam retires and new version comes in.



THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS

Internet connection

Music Player

Food

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW

T-Shirt

Lungi

Under....


THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW

Visit UK

Watch Wimbledon

century by Sachin

FEW THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE

Open an orphan/homeage

Travel to all seven continents

Want to settle down in my Agriculture field

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION

Scotland

Italy

Panama

THREE KIDS NAMES YOU LIKE

Soorya

Akash

Arya

LAST BOOK I READ

You Can If You Can

NUMBER OF BOOKS I OWN

Around 200


4 PEOPLE I WISH TO TAG


Genesis

Kongu Raasaa

Raja

Anne

Monday, June 27, 2005

Is Married Man Earning More?

Who is earning more?

Married men earn more than bachelors so long as their wives stay at home doing the housework, according to a report Wednesday from Britain's Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER).

Academics Elena Bardasi and Mark Taylor found that a married man whose wife does not go out to work but is primarily responsible for the cooking and cleaning earns about 3 percent more than comparably employed single men.

But that wage premium disappears if wives go out to work themselves or don't do most of the housework.

"It has been fairly well documented that married men earn more than single men," Taylor, a labor economist, told Reuters.

"However, our research established the wage premium is related to the wife doing the chores," said the academic who teaches at the University of Essex in eastern England.

He said analysis suggests there could be two explanations for the results:

A marriage might allow a husband and wife to focus their activities on tasks to which they are most suited. Traditionally, this would result in the man concentrating on paid work enabling him to increase productivity and in consequence his wages.

Taylor said another explanation could be that marriage may increase the amount of time a man has to hone work-related skills which could trigger higher wages.

Taylor and Bardasi analyzed the hourly wages of 3,500 men who have been interviewed annually since 1991 as part of the British Household Panel Survey.

"We looked at all types of jobs from unskilled up to managers and professionals," Taylor said.
Detailed Report

Friday, June 24, 2005

Another Moon for Us.

Believe it or not? Today i got a mail, which made me surprise, sharing the mail to you.

The Red Planet (MARS) is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history.
The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.
The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. By August 27, Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easy to spot.
At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. by the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month.

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