1) Chinese used an old weather satellite of theirs for target practice. It's been suggested that, like the Russian and U.S. military twenty years ago, the Chinese want to be able to take out their adversaries' spy satellites in the event of some future war.

They pulled it off, after years of trying. They've tried to assure the U.S. that there's no threat.

But there's one nagging detail.... .........WHAT IS THIS THING ...?????

2) In his retirement -- he's hardly retired -- he founded the Association of Space Explorers, and lately he's taken up another cause: trying to save the earth from catastrophe.

WHO IS THIS GUY IN THE PIC ....??????





3) Another one from the basket of GOOGLE mysteries

Tell me the name of this Facility provided by google
















4) Google has a very nice little tradition of modifying its logo for special occasions.

WHAT IS THIS SPECIAL OCCASION



ANSWERS

1) Center for Space Standards & Innovation, a Colorado group that provides space-tracking information for aerospace firms, reports that the debris from the pulverized satellite is now spreading out in a ring around the Earth. Our piece on the subject is HERE.

The ring is not dense -- there are some 500 pieces large enough to be tracked on radar -- but it's vast, and the path is an orbit that goes over the north and south poles. So its a debris from the satellite .......of China

2) Rusty Schweikart

3) The Google provided this facility to remove the Urls frm ur computer ... just enter the url name and google will remove it for u

4) This special occasion was Valentines day ....

Only my dear Saurabh was able to answer the 4th question ... and he said he forgot the name of the astronaut ..... but no marks for it.