Agni-II Test Fired Successfully-"09/08/2012"

9 August 2012 Current Affairs

Agni-II Test Fired Successfully
Angi-II soared to a spectacular success on 9 august 2012. Surface to Surface missile Agni-II, produced by the Defence Research and Development Organization(DRDO). It have a height of 20km and weighted as 17 tonnes and have the capacity to carry a nuclear war head of weighing one ton. It climbed 20 km after lifting off to a height of 220km, then flew 2,00km in a flawless mission of 700 seconds towards the target at Bay of Bengal.This mission held at Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast. The missile Ranging Agni-I 700km , Agni-II 2,000 km , Agni-III-3,300km. The future projects are Agni 4 and Agni 5 to launch

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“NASI- Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award 2012″ for Bhadra

Dr. Manik Pal Bandra, Principal scientist of chemical biology division,CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Hyderabad, has been  selected for the ” NASI- Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee award 2012″. Dr.Bhadra was nominated for the award by the National Academy of science for significant contribution in the area of applications of oriented innovations in biological sciences for 2012. He was given this for his involvement in the synthesizing or orally administered next generation nano particles to deliver material like DNA an RNA for effective gene therapy.  This award will be presented on November 29,2012 at New Delhi.

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This still from an animated fly-through of the new universe map created by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III shows the positions of galaxies mapped in 3D space.

Miguel A. Aragón (Johns Hopkins University), Mark SubbaRao (Adler Planetarium), Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins University), Yushu Yao (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NERSC), and the SDSS-III Collaboration

Largest 3D Map of Galaxies

Astronomers have unveiled the largest ever 3 D map of the sky, encompassing massive galaxies and distance black holes, based on sloan digital sky survey III(SDSS- III). These galaxies are captures by a 2.5 meter wide -angle telescope located at the Apache Point observatory in New Mexico.The release Includes of 200 million galaxies and spectra of 1.35 million galaxies, according to a Harvard-smith soniam statement with SDSS-III.

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Usian Bolt Made an Olympic History

Usian Bolt won 200 metres gold medal on  9 August 2012  and made an Olympic history that the only man who swept both 100m and 200m gold in the same Olympic games. Bolt ran 19.32 to finish, Yohan Blake got the silver in 19.44 and Warren Weir took bronze in 19.84.