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This site is intended for anyone interested in astronomy, and particularly anyone who would like to be a member of the Bootham School Astronomy Society. This membership is available to all members of the Bootham community, and students from other York schools who have attended the ISSP course on astronomy at Bootham. If you choose to subscribe by email, you will receive an email of any new post within about twenty four hours. There will also be twitter updates before an observatory session, and you are recommended to follow me on twitter using the button on the right of this screen.

Friday 23 September 2011

UARS falling tonight

If you get the chance, go and have a look to the south east just before 9pm tonight. The Nasa satellite UARS is reentering the Earth's atmosphere, and with any luck we should get a view as it plummets to Earth!