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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David Heath
Monday, 15 March 2010 00:40
It's interesting what you can see when you have somewhere new to stand and look. The SOHO probe launched by NASA and ESA recently observed a train of comets crashing into the sun.
From this perspective, an uninterrupted view of the sun is achieved - any Earth-orbit device will be 'eclipsed' at some point in its orbit.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Australian time, SOHO observed an amazing event – a comet performing a "sun dive," as Douglas Adams might describe it.
Closer inspection of the available images showed that in fact there was a train of at least 5 comet fragments – a vision very similar to that seen in July 1994 when Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided in 21 pieces with Jupiter.
Images clearly show a major solar flare or prominence erupting from the Sun soon after each impact.
Other sites discuss a number of aspects of the impact which may be of interest to readers.
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