Hubble asteroid collision pictures emerge
2011年5月2日 下午 10:48:01
by Aishwarya Bhatt
Translation by Autumnson Blog
New York, May 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists have captured on picture the collision of asteroids. This is the first time that the event has been caught on tape. Scientists say the incident happened last year.
紐約5月2日（THAINDIAN新聞）科學家們已用圖片捕捉到小行星的碰撞，這是第一次事件被捕捉於磁帶上。科學家說事件在去年發生。
Details of the findings are due to be published in the 20th May edition of the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters. Several asteroid collisions take place each year but they have always been elusive to scientists. This is the first time in the history of space science that the event has been photographed. Scientists are mostly not warned before-hand about impending collision. However this case was quite different.
發現的詳情將於5月20日版本的天體物理學雜誌通訊期刊出版。小行星碰撞每年發生幾次，但它們一直對科學家是可望而不可及的，這是歷史上空間科學的首次事件已被拍照。科學家們大都在事前被警告將發生碰撞，但是這個案是頗不同的。
Scientists were able to detect the imminent collision when they realized that one of the asteroid called “Scheila” has brightened unexpectedly. Scientists used data from Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope to deduce that there has been an impact. They ruled out the involvement of comets in the collision after analyzing the images captured by the telescope. Scheila orbits around the sun completing an orbit every five years or so.
科學家能夠探測到即將發生的碰撞，當他們發現其中一顆被稱為“Scheila“的小行星，已意料之外地發光。科學家使用來自斯威夫特衛星的數據和哈勃太空望遠鏡作推斷會有一次撞擊。在分析望遠鏡所捕獲的圖像後，他們排除碰撞時會有彗星的參與。 Scheila圍繞太陽的軌道運行，每隔五年左右完成軌道一次。
There are millions of asteroids that are known to exist at a place in space known as the asteroid belt. Scientists predict that the collision took place between the 11th of November and the 3rd of December.
Scheila Asteroid Crash
Scheila小行星碰撞
2011-04-28
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sci-tech/hubble-asteroid-collision-pictures-emerge_100532774.html
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