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Mobile operators get fixed price spectrum renewal in $3b Government windfall

The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.

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Update to Comet Lulin (and transit of Saturn's moons)

Science - Space



Check-out sky charts of Comet Lulin and its position with respect to the planets and the constellations at LunarPlanner.com’s website “Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3) Approaches Earth.”

Its orbital elements are found on the Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics, website “C/2007 N3 (Lulin) Orbital Elements.”

For additional information on the chance encounter between Comet Lulin and the quadruple-transiting moons of Saturn (at least from our perspective here on Earth) read the iTWire article "Four times the fun: See quadruple transit of Saturn's moons"

The NinePlanets.org website (or is it eight planets?) provides additional information on the planet Saturn, along with its moons Titan, Mimas, Dione, and Enceladus--the ones transiting its mother planet on February 24, 2009.

More information on Saturn is found at: http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html.

In all, Saturn has 34 named moons (natural satellites) orbiting about it, but another 26 or so have been discovered but not yet named.

Titan is the largest of the moons (even larger than the planet Mercury), and it is the Solar System's second largest moon, next to Jupiter's Gamymede.

The planet also has a very distinctive system of rings, which consist of ice, dust, and other debris particles. For more information, see The Planetary Society's website "The Alphabet Soup of Saturn's Rings."

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