The Jyotish Digest Contents Volume I Issue 1. 2 Competition for Moon exploration Quarter Jan- Mar, 2005 Released Jan1, 2005 4 Jyotish to the rescue of farmers 4 Marriage prescriptions can be bothersome Editor Pt. Sanjay Rath 5 Politics and the Saëkaräcarya Editorial Editorial office 10 Your Letters SJC Puri, 212 Gopal Ballav Road, Puri 752001, India E-mail: 17 Kälacakra Daçä Narasimha Rao [email protected] 26 Kalachakra Dasa System Raman Suprajarama Consulting editors Brendan Feeley, Chandrasekhar 29 Timing in Relationships Phyllis Chubb Sharma, Narayan Iyer, P.V.R.Narasimha Rao, Pearl Finn, 38 War developments S. 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Area, New SJC Russia: Parshikov Youri [email protected] Delhi 110058 (Phones: 51411507, 8) by SJC Serbia: Zoran Radosevljevic, [email protected] Mihir Guha Roy for and on behalf of Sri SJC UK: Umesh K (Jaan) [email protected] Jagannath Center SJC Belgium: Dhira Krsna Das [email protected] Editor: Sanjay Rath SJC New Zealand: Rosemary Innes-Jones [email protected] miscellany... Competition for Moon exploration At the five-day International Conference on Exploration and Utilisation of the Moon held in the north Indian city of Udaipur in November 2004, the scientists attending feel that the next decade will see nations scrambling to build outposts on the Moon with each adapting different strategies to use it as a base to explore space. The United States welcomes competition while the Europeans and other national space programmes prefer a co-operative robotic village lunar base, a settlement where each nation has its own place on the Moon. The Indians and whose group co-ordinates the plans scrambling for just prestige and first- Japanese alike are aiming for a lunar among international agencies including occupancy.” The 1979 Moon Treaty, to mission to galvanise their scientific the US, Russia, Japan, China and India prevent the Moon from becoming an community while China’s plans were and Europe. He is also the chief scientist area of international conflict, has only not spelt out. of the European Space Agency. The been ratified by nine nations. It has been European Space Agency plans to launch rejected by both the United States and America an orbiter to the Moon by 2008 and a Russia. second mission, a lander, in 2009 or 2010 Paul Spudis, planetary scientist at the Going back in history, the Outer Space to be followed by a human flight in 2020. Johns Hopkins University and adviser to Treaty containing an undertaking not to Nasa said “If they want to compete then place in orbit around the Earth, install on let them compete. It spurs innovation.” Japan the moon or any other celestial body, or Spudis added that the United States is Japan will be the first to send an orbiter otherwise station in outer space, nuclear planning a lunar orbiter by 2008 to be to the Moon in 2006. China could follow, or any other weapons of mass followed the next year by a landing ahead of India’s unmanned lunar destruction was opened for signature in mission. By 2015 it plans to put another mission in 2007 or 2008. the United States, the United Kingdom, man on the Moon. The goal of the vision and the Soviet Union on January 27, is to cut the chord from the earth and China 1967. On April 25 the United States Senate create the ability to go elsewhere in the gave unanimous consent to its Wu Ji, a scientist at China’s Centre for solar system with any kind of capability ratification, and the Treaty entered into Space and Applied Research, said the we want, not just people but with robots force on October 10, 1967. or radars. The last man on the Moon was lunar programme would be the third Nasa astronaut Eugene Cernan on milestone after China sent satellites and The moment of opening of a treaty is its December 11, 1972, three years after Neil a manned Earth orbiter in 2003. Wu said birth time and although the Outer Space Armstrong became the first person to “The lunar mission will be the starting Treaty was opened simultaneously at touch lunar soil on July 21, 1969. point to go to deep space. We are not New York, London and Moscow, the talking about a manned mission. It is out time for New York has been taken as it Europe of the question now. I cannot talk too is the UN headquarters. Readers are much about our space programme right welcome to send their comments on this chart Other space powers, such as Europe, now.” or on any of the related charts to the editor have plans to set up a robotic village on Sanjay Rath at the editorial address or e- the Moon by 2014 for a permanent lunar India mail: [email protected] for future base to exploit resources and plan a trip publications on this topic. to Mars. Bernard Foing, director of the Madhavan Nair, chief of the Indian Space International Lunar Exploration Working Research Organisation, said an Soon after the treaty was ratified, a vital Group said “I think it can be an Olympic unmanned lunar mission would upgrade omission was noticed in that it does not race where everyone gets the best from the country’s technological capabilities say whether commercial enterprises or themselves. But it should not be a race and provide opportunities to planetary private individuals can claim, exploit or where some others are prevented from scientists. Meanwhile, former director of appropriate the celestial bodies for profit. the benefits of the Olympic exercise.” the Tata Institute of Fundamental The Moon Treaty (Moon Agreement) of Research in Bombay, MGK Menon, 1984 attempted to correct this oversight, “At some stage the Moon is a great place warned scientists not to colonise the but only six member states supported it. to do things together. That is a concept Moon. Menon said “One should not treat The space faring nations (USA, UK, we propose for the future,” said Foing, the Moon as an object where we are all Russia, China, etc.) refused to sign it. The 2@ JYOTISH DIGEST @ JAN-MAR,2004 @ miscellany... including viability is being examined, 3.http://www.tdf.it/english/ homeen.html where the technology necessary for making space tourism is updated, 4. X prize: In 1996 the X Prize Foundation was launched. It offers a $10 million Prize to the first team which could, without government subsidy, build a craft which could take three passengers to 100 kilometers altitude, return them safely, and repeat the feat after two weeks without more than aircraft scale re-fuelling and maintenance. It is evident that the basic approach of the space club (nations who have the resources to exploit outer space) is to USA explicitly refused to sign it as it there is no mention about civic and reap the benefits of their investment would inhibit the exploitation of Lunar sanitary amenities! Hope has filed his instead of having to share this with the and other celestial resources for profit claims with the United Nations for rest of the world. Their internal by corporations and individuals. ownership of the moon (and other differences of ‘winner takes all’ celestial bodies) under the 1967 Outer Various entrepreneurs like Dennis Hope, (America) versus ‘cooperation’ Space Treaty and the 1979 Moon a former shoe salesman laid claim of (European) will get ironed out in due Agreement. U.N. legal experts state that ownership of the surface of the moon course but it is evident that the the moon falls under the legal concept of (and the rest of the solar system). Hope enthusiasm of the private sector is high res communis, which means everyone offers a one-acre lunar plot for only ten and investment is being made in this owns it (the concept is also applied to the dollars and has set up a Web site called direction. One look at the chart for the high seas). Private enterprise enthusiasm the Lunar Embassy (http:// Outer Space Treaty (1967) shows that can be seen at websites like www.lunarembassy.com) for the purpose.