Your baby should be improving their ability to spot and
track small objects.
Not exact matches
5 months Your baby is getting better at spotting very
small items and
tracking moving
objects.
NASA
tracks some 16,000
objects larger than 10 cm, but there are many more fragments
smaller than this.
NASA seems unlikely to meet the goal, but the agency is stepping up its detection and
tracking of
smaller objects.
Researchers are currently
tracking an estimated 22,000 artificial
objects that are orbiting Earth, from
small bits of debris to large satellites.
A gifted border collie, Rico, mastered the names of more than 200
objects using a technique called fast -
tracking that
small children also employ, Juliane Kaminski, also of M.P.I. Evolutionary Anthropology and colleagues reported in 2004 in Science.
The explanation might lie in
small airborne birds» need to detect and
track objects whose image moves very swiftly across the retina — for blue tits, for example, to be able to see and avoid all branches when they take cover from predators by flying straight into bushes.
«You can divide the orbital population into those
objects big enough to
track,
small enough not to pose a catastrophic hazard, and too
small to
track but large enough to kill your satellite,» Crowther says.
The VLA data were used to
track the orbit of the
smaller Southern star around the larger Southern
object, presumed to be a pair of stars orbiting each other closely.
A fact sheet says the system can
track objects as
small as a basketball more than 20,000 miles away and is a «vital part of the AFSPC's space surveillance network.»
The
track includes a number of turns and a number of
small, man - made
objects left by this person on the
track itself.
That is distressing, disaster experts say, because near - earth
objects this size are presumed to be much more common than larger space rocks, and they are too
small to be easily spotted long in advance with the telescopes used to
track such debris.
The big near - Earth
objects, or NEO's, are being
tracked fairly well, but quite a few experts on space, risk, and resilience say we'd better start sifting for the
small ones, too.
But Welch and others from
small - and medium - sized MLSs
object to that characterization, saying that while larger MLSs can more easily
track who's using their services, implementing this new rule and assessing fees on those who violate it will be too costly and difficult where staffing and budgets are lower.