: 2 Auckland weight watchers are well on their way to boasting model figures after 3 months of strict dieting and exercise 2 slimmers proved their success when they stepped on to different scales at Auckland zoo Kashin the elephant aged 22 shed 278 kg and her weight dropped from 4430 kg in July to 4152 kg through daily walks and exercise
: Uosat Oscar 11 was launched on board Delta 174 rocket from Vandenburg Air Force Base on 1 March 1984 this spacecraft still performing flawlessly was designed and built within 6 months by the Uosat Spacecraft Research Unit
: The NZ cricket team will look primarily for some batting practice when it resumes its 3 day match against Pakistan International Airlines in Rawalpindi the tourists ended the opening day at the Army Sports Ground on 38 for 1 after PIA declared its innings closed at 234 for 2
: Shoaib and Rizwan put on 143 and the partnership was not brocken until after lunch Shoaib who scored an unbeaten 108 not out during the NZ match against a Presidents 11 here 6 years ago when the venue was called the Pindi Club Ground went on to get 137 not out he hit 13 fours and a 6 lofted over longon off spinner Mark Priest
: His century came up in 225 minutes and 205 balls and was the third recorded against New Zealanders in 3 innings so far on tour Rizwan got to 52 before seamer Chris Pringle caught him leg before and with the very next ball Pringle again won a LBW decision this time against Aamer Malik
: The former test player produced a chanceless 103 before he was caught by Willie Watson at backward point the catch gave the bowler a measure of revenge as he had received some stern punishment from Akhtar including being hit to the boundary 3 times in 1 over Akhtars century took 232 minutes
: Pringle was rewarded for some tidy bowling with his 2 wickets which cost 27 runs from 10 overs Fellow seamer Willie Watson bowled a tighter line than in the tour opener against Karachi and finished with the better figures of none for 21 off 11 overs
: Patel conceded more than 4 runs an over from his 13 overs but Lees said the Aucklander was bowling to try to take wickets while Horne managed only 5 and the wicket fell with the score at 28 At the close of play fellow opener David White was on 24 and Mark Greatbatch on 7
: The US has participated in the Soviet Cosmos Biosatellite program since 1975 and will continue to fly experiments on the next mission in 92 the US will reciprocate for these flight opportunities by flying Soviet experiments on Spacelab Life Sciences 1 to 3 and a Shuttle middeck flight in 1993
: 12 November 1988 Richard Hadlee the Rolls Royce of fast bowlers made cricket history taking his test wicket 374 on a brown pitch in Bangalore India it had been a 16 year long and painful trek to being the best bowler in the world and the Rolls Royce of fast bowlers
: Karachi cricket captain Ijaz Faqih says he will look to set NZ a challenging but realistic target on day 3 and final day of their match at the national stadium Karachi will resume with a lead of 114 and with 9 wickets remaining
: Karachis first innings finished at 242 for 9 while NZ resuming yesterday from its overnight total of 9 for no wicket declared at tea 202 for 6 they came together with NZ at 133 for 6 and looking somewhat shaky when the declaration came 37 minutes later they had added 69 runs
: Horne scored 1209 runs at an average of 81 hitting six centuries for consecutively for his club Lansdown including three matches for the leagues representative team Horne totalled 1900 runs only 200 less than Richards record score set in 1973
: 96 of the New Zealands best male players will feature in a masters bowls tournament at Onehunga in March Selectors from each centre will be invited to name their top 4 players From March 11 to 13 eacg team will play rounds of singles pairs triples and fours in theory we should have 96 of NZs best bowlers
: Maree Lyndon made an immediate impact on the racing scene with 43 wins in the 1980 to 81 and she retires as the most successful NZ woman jockey her tally of 545 wins includes 72 in Singapore and Malaysia 36 in Australia and 9 in Japan she also won 17 group races and 13 listed races
: Possums can carry Giardia the parasite which has forced the closure of Whangareis Kamo Springs water supply and could be present in many more of the mostly untreated water supplies throughout Northland In the past 18 months there have been at least 45 cases of Giardiasis in Northland 85 percent of them in the Whangarei ares
: In an era of 7 day wonders thrust into the limelight by bonuses and big money juvenile races Luxury Liner earned the title of champion pacer the hard way the Purdon trained star raced 118 times and secured 37 wins the majority by simply grinding his opponents into the dust
: Only 3 quarters of a length seperated Sir Alberton and Americas Cup when they were first and second respectively in the Guineas Trial The way Americas Cup ran on suggested that with a little further to go this time 1575 metres as against 1400 he might press the other horse even harder
: Crowes century helped NZ chasing 268 runs in 110 minutes and 20 overs to 178 for 3 stumps He contributed the lions share of an unbeaten 115 run partnership with Otago captain Ken Rutherford who ended on 29 not out NZ lost opener Phil Horne and Tevor Franklin with the total at 16 when Crowe came to the crease
: The last 3 days have been a real test but the side has come through its tour opener with full marks the target of 268 in 110 minutes plus 20 overs was always going to be difficult the bowlers came through extremely well especially considering the temperature soared around 38 degrees
: Otagos Ken Rutherford got in some timely pretest batting practice when he scored 92 as NZ drew its three day match against Pakistan International Airlines chasing 249 to win in 105 minutes and 20 overs the tourists finished on 154 for 4 at Rawalpindis Army Sports Ground
: Rutherford hit 14 boundaries in his 127 minute stay at the crease and faced 113 deliveries he and opener David White put on 63 for the second wicket before White was caught and bowled by spinner Zahid Ahmed for 39 NZ dismissed PIA for 205 in its second innings
: Bradburn who took opener Aamer Maliks wicket was the bowler to score quickly when resuming at 165 for 5 after lunch the last 5  PIA wickets fell in the 35 minutes after lunch there were only 34 deliveries between the fall of the sixth and tenth wickets
: Asif Mohammad was caught in the covers Rashid Khan was stumped  and Tanveer Ali was bowled first ball after missing with a wild swing while iqbal Silkander was caught on the mid on boundary Seamer Chris Pringle took the other wicket to fall after lunch to finish with 3 for 51 off 16 overs 4 of which were maidens
: The tourists claimed 4 wickets to leave PIA at 165 for 5 at lunch 2 of the wickets went to Pringle the second immediately before the interval when he hit top scorer Rizwan Zaman on the head with a bouncer Rizwan on 65 then moved back and trod on his wicket
: NASA officials were forced to scrub the launch of STS 35 on Sept 11  1990 due to the recurrence of a hydrogen leak in the aft engine compartment because this leak appeared to be much worse than leaks previously encountered NASA officials will again roll the Shuttle Columbia back to the hanger to perform needed repairs
: During the time that the repairs are being performed on Columbia the Shuttle Discovery will be made ready for lift off cries a time critical payload known as Ulysses which must be launched within a 13 day period beginning 5 Oct 1990 after the Ulysses mission comes a classified DoD launch on the Shuttle Atlantis
: This mission is planned for 10 November 90 NASA planners are working on a 1 December launch for STS 35 sarex although 4 launch attempts would try the patience of even the most stalwart 
: The craft is easily heard each day at about 0810 hrs in the morning on 137 point 795 MHz From the Dallas Remote Imaging Group Jeff Wallach reports that US Spacecom has changed the NASA catalogue object number for the recently launched Chinese Meteorological satellite Fengyun from 20789 to 20788
: With NZ declaring at 191 for 4 at tea PIA had got 62 for one at stumps on the second day its second innings was built on a 74 run partnership in even time between opener Shoaib Mohammad and Rizan they took the total to 119 before Shoaib fell
: New cap David White took 42 minutes and 23 balls to get his first test run while fellow opener Trevor Franklin was dropped at second slip by Ijaz when on 12 The pair survived together for 56 minutes and negotiated their way to 28 when White on 9 edged a delivery from Akram to wicketkeeper Salim Yousuf
: 4 Air NZ and Quantas jets and 4 truck and trailer units will freight more than 35 motor cycle race teams to the world superbike championship final at Manfeild on 18 November 2 Boeing 767 jets and a pair of the larger 747 jumbos have been booked for November 12 for the teams trip from the penultimate round at Phillip Island
: The Pakistanis got their prized victim 18 minutes after lunch adjournment when Crowe was caught by Ramiz Raja at short leg off Younis he returned the best bowling figures of the day his 16 overs brought him 2 for 31 and he and Akram were able to beat the bat with some regularity Akram finished with 1 for 34 off 24 overs
: Coming from Auckland and heading north Klondyke Rd is 2 km south of the town of ONEWHERO from the TUAKAU bridge over the WAIKATO go left then right 50 metres after the bridge the site gate is almost exactly 11 km up the road its hard to miss the 35 metre tall tower
: Robert Kaio of the Bay of Islands Athletic and Harrier Club was number 60 across the line in the senior mens event at the annual NZ road racing championships at Dunedin on Saturday In a field of close to 100 Kaio completed the 15 km in a time of 52 minutes
: At stumps at Karachis national stadium last night NZ was 192 for 9 in its second innings still 45 runs away from making Pakistan bat again Martin Crowe playing a skippers knock was 67 not out and Willie Watson was on 11 but 3 of the 4 LBW decisions given against the Kiwis looked questionable
: With New Zealand at 56 for 2 Mark Greatbatch was dismissed by a delivery from seamer Aaqib Javed that pitched outside the line of leg stump before nipping back Greatbatch stood his ground briefly incredulous at being given out later with the score at 96 for 4 Dipak Patel was hit on the pad by fast bowler Wasim Akram
: Bradford Northerns 2 signings from NZ rugby Darrell Shlford and Brett Iti scored tries in an unexpected 31 to 30 victory over Wigan today Wigan played the second half with only 12 men after skipper Ellery Hanley was sent off
: His team mates battled back to 19 to 18 before 2 further tries made it safe for Northern Frano Botica kicked 2 goals for Wigan Former Wigan ace Adrian Shelford scored his first try for his new club Wakefield in an 18 to 12 win at Hull
: Resuming from his overnight score of 30 not out the 24 year old Ghulam playing in his 1st international match hit a total of 3 sixes and 13 fours in an innings of 101 he spent 190 minutes at the crease and faced 126 balls putting on 94 runs with Shaukat Mirza for the third wicket
: In the end Faqih waited until 30 minutes after lunch when his side had reached a second innings total of 227 for 5 before he made the matches third declaration Greatbatch who had contributed 23 runs to the 47 run partnership was bowled by one of the many balls that kept low during the day
: England rugby league giant Widnes won the Lancashire Cup for the first time in 11 years at Wigan after being given a scare by Kevin Tamatis The Salford underdogs seeking to become only the second division 2 side to win the trophy led 18 to 12 with 10 minutes to go
: NASA managers today selected 6 Oct 1990 as the launch date for Space Shuttle mission STS 41 to deploy the European Space Agencys Ulysses probe on a 5 year journey to study the sun the launch window for Oct 6 extends from 0735 to 1005 am EDT NASA received Office of Science and Technology Policy nuclear launch safety approval for the Ulysses mission on Monday 24 Sept 1990
: It has been heard here recently with standard 120 line visible mode Automatic Picture Transmission on 137 point 3 MHz Transmissions were monitored on 22 September 1990 during orbit number 7904 after a northbound equator crossing at 1456 UTC at 75 degrees west
: The Magellan spacecraft continues in standard radar mapping operations and have completed 66 orbits of mapping since September 15 when mosaicked together this 66 orbit patch would cover an area on Earth extending from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City and from the North pole to South pole
: BADR 1 was successfully injected into orbit over the Pacific in an area between the Philippines and Taiwan at 0550 on 16 July weighing 50 kg the Uosat type spacecraft has an orbital period of 98 minutes post launch apogee of 992 km and perigee of 210 km and orbit plane inclination of 28 point 5 degrees
: The latest official date advised from Arianespace is 13 January 1990 at 0135 UTC plus or minus a few minutes the 4 Microsats and 2 Uosats will ride on a small satellite shelf designed for missions such as ours under the Spot 2 satellite
: Magnetorquing bagan on 22 November to change the attitude of AO 13 so that its solar panels would stay fully illuminated after the adjustment the new Bahn coordinates were 179 point 4 longitude plus or minus 3 point 6 latitude
: Our river journey soon to begin would take 5 days and cover 145 kms with the river dropping 131 metres it has 198 rapids graded between 1 and 2 ending at Pipiriki with a further 88 kms to Wanganui the river flows mainly through farmland and is slow moving becoming tidal
: Lifting off at 0133 on February 7 from Tanegashima Space Centre of NASDA the National Space Development Agency of Japan HI Number 6 two stage Launch vehicle carried MOS marine Observation Satellite weighing over 600kg a Deployable Boom and Umbrella Test Payload
: The NZ cricket team made a fine start to its tour of Pakistan when it restricted Karachi it 243 for 9 declared on the first day of a 3 day match yesterday the visitors lost the toss and were forced to bowl on a placid almost grassless wicket
: NZ batted out the final 25 minutes with openers Trevor Franklin and Phil Horne taking their side to 9 without loss good figures were returned by spinner Dipak Patel who finished with 4 for 62 after taking 3 of the 4 wickets to fall in the final session
: The Whg under 14 girls basketball side selected and coached by Mata Cameron won the northern zone tournament at Tauranga last week Cameron and Whetu led the team in fine style to 5 wins from 6 games in the first game against Taupo Whg lost by 1 point but it decisively turned the tables in the final beating Taupo 36 to 22
: Franklin compiled a gritty 66 not out during a 265 minute stay at the crease he produced 6 boundaries including a delightful off drive off medium pacer Shahid Mahboob near the end he brought up the NZ 150 that mark was reached after 240 minutes of the innings the next 50 came up in only 25 minutes and 7 overs
: 4 other NZ batsmen reached double figures but Mark Greatbatch batting at no 3 made it beyond 20 he looked in good touch hitting 37 in his 92 minutes at the wicket but in the final over before lunch fell leg before to Shahid Opener Phil Horne got 11 before being adjudged caught behind
: Mark Priest who came in after Patel with the score at 133 for 5 lasted just one ball being bowled by 1 from Haaris that kept low as on the first day the match which is being televised live in Pakistan attracted only about 150 spectators to the National Stadium which has a 33000 capacity
: By 1635 GMT Wall St had rallied further with the Dow up 57 points at 2509 if the Dow can consolidate or extend that gain then London is set to open higher again on Tuesday said a British dealer the FTSE index gained 40 points to close at 2031
: Add another moon to the list of natural satellites orbiting Saturn temporarily designated 1981S13 the tiny moon apparently creates the 320 kilometer wide Enckes gap in the planets A ring the outermost of its clearly visible rings confirmed the moons presence in an analysis of photos taken by Voyager 2 during its 1981 Saturn flyby
: Italian company SIRA claims to have supplied the highest power television broadcast antenna in the world to Kuwait with a UHF omnidirectional antenna rated at 440 kw giving an effective radiated power of 8 megawatt on each of 2 channels
: The Magellan spacecraft on 12 and 13 August received a new command sequence which will take it through the week and includes the command to begin radar tests on 16 Aug the new command sequence also will turn the high gain antenna toward Earth today
: In its orbit around the sun the flight path will take it from a maximum distance from the sun of 5 point 4 astronomical units or about 500 million miles to a closest approach of about 120 million miles the spacecraft will reach 70 degrees south solar latitude in June 1994 beginning its transit of the suns south polar regions
: After release from Discoverys cargo bay the 807 pound spacecraft will deploy an 18 point 2 foot radial boom carrying several experiment sensors as well as a 238 foot dipole wire boom and a 26 point 2 foot axial boom which serve as antennas for a radio wave plasma wave experiment
: A command was sent on 10 September to reset the Command Loss Timer to 264 hours the planned value for this mission phase a total of 2155 real time commands have been transmitted to Galileo of these 1066 have been pre planned in the sequence design and 1089 were not
: The Energetic Particles Detector instrument was turned on and the motor successfully stepped on 13 September as part of its motor maintenance activity During this activity the EPD was stepped through all 7 sectors 10 times then back to its original Sector 4 position
: The Voyager 1 spacecraft continues its collection of routine cruise science data low rate Ultraviolet Spectrometer data was taken on sources BW Vulpeculae and HD 199579 There was a Plasma Wave high rate data recorded on 4 Sept 53 minutes of telemetry was lost with the 34 meter tracking station in Australia on 2 Sept due to rain and 51 minutes on 5 Sept due to a receiver outage
: The Voyager 2 spacecraft also continues to collect routine cruise science data high rate data were also taken on Markarian 509 there was a PWS High rate record frame on 4 Sept there was also a UVS sun monitoring event on 6 Sept which went well
: A newly discovered comet Comet Austin is streaking towards the sun and could become the brightest comet in more than a decade discovered by New Zealand amateur astronomer Rodney Austin last 6 December the comet is so bright at 230 million miles from the sun that astronomers feel it may top Halley and Kohoutek
: Current predictions put Comet Austins brightest magnitude zero at its closest approach to the sun or perihelion on 9 April and around 25 May the comet will make its closest approach to Earth at 23 million miles NASA is expecting to launch 2 orbiting observatories in time to gather data on Comet Austin
: The Hubble Space Telescope now scheduled for launch on 12 April is expected to interrupt its initial testing to take some snapshots of the comet ASTRO 1 to be launched 9 May on the space shuttle will make at least 4 observations best viewing of Comet Austin should be around 25 April just above the east northeast horizon before dawn
: The Galileo spacecraft is 53 POINT 1 million miles from Earth with a little less than 3 months and about 125 million miles to travel in orbit before the first Earth gravity assist on 8 December Speed in orbit is 49 thousand 950 mph with a Round trip communication time of 9 minutes 31 seconds
: Columbia is in the Orbiter Processing Facility being prepared for the STS 35 Astro 1 flight which will make UV and Xray observations of stars and galaxies including a few favorite quasars Atlantis was launched on mission STS 36 on March 4 it deployed the AFP 731 imaging and signals intelligence satellite into a 62 degree orbit
: The LACE and RME satellites launched by Delta 6920 on February 14 are SDIO payloads to study the effects of ground based lasers USAF Block 2 NavStar GPS satellites were launched by Delta 6925 on 11 December and 24 January
: The first commercial Titan 3 launch ocurred 7 minutes into the new year with the launch of the UK Ministry of Defenses Skynet 4 comsat and a commercial Japanese comsat JCSAT 2 belonging to Japan Communications Satellite Corporation
: sarex 2 is a secondary payload on STS 35 currently scheduled for launch 17 May 1990 it will be located in the Aft Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia sarex 2 dash 02 is a secondary payload on STS 37 currently scheduled for launch on 1 November 1990 it will be located in the Aft Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis
: The 12 year mission of Voyager 2 and the planning and design that preceded it have filled the careers of many engineers and scientists the total cost of that effort is a billion dollars It seems an impressive sum until you realize that for every taxpayer in the United States it comes to only 20 cents per person per year since 1972
: When the radio signal from Voyagers 22 Watt transmitter arrives at Earth it has diminished to only 10 E  minus 14 Watt this is billions of times weaker than the flea power used by a digital watch On Earth antennas were electronically linked to effectively become 1 huge antenna
: Canberra had a 12 hour window for the Voyager signals permitting many pictures to be sent by Voyager at the maximum data rate after that a site in Spain took over the task then the signals were caught by the 230 foot dish at Goldstone in California working in tandem with 27 times 80 foot dishes at a radio astronomy facility in New Mexico
: Voyager 1 and 2 are going into the same general direction as Pioneer 11 but they are spreading apart with Pioneer in the middle Voyager 1 is leaving the ecliptic upwards at a 35 degree angle and Voyager 2 will be bent by Neptune downward tomorrow leaving the ecliptic plane at 48 degree southward and Pioneer 11 stays generally in the ecliptic
: Pioneer 10 is on its own lonely cruise  going just the opposite way against the Suns motion it has crossed Plutos orbit earlier this year something which Pioneer 11 will only be doing in late 1990  while Voyager 1 has done so in 1988 and Voyager 2 will do next year
: We will be receiving telemetry from both Voyagers until 2037 in 2034 however Voyager 2 runs out of hydrazine propellant so its high gain antenna can no longer be controlled to point to Earth Voyager 1 will have enough hydrazine until 2040
: Voyager 2 will make its closest approach to Neptune about 9 pm on 24 August 4500 kilometers above the clouds Closest approach to Triton will occur about 5 hours later Neptune is right now the farthest planet from the sun plutos highly elliptical orbit intersects Neptunes orbit and Pluto is currently up to 1999 closer to the Sun than us
: The Galileo spacecraft is currently 59 point 8 million miles from Earth round trip communication time is 10 minutes 43 seconds speed in orbit is 49560 mph increasing slowly as the distance from the Sun gradually shortens the spacecraft health and performance continue to be excellent amid routine relatively quiet operations
: These systems comprise a central earth station broadcasting to remote sites receiving via a small typically 1 point 8 metre diameter antennas Estimates in 1987 just over 3000 earth stations with antennas less than 5 metres in diameter were installed in developing countries
: winfield cup grand final weve scored 30 seats to the league grand final at sydney football stadium on sunday september 23 the cost of our accommodation is 849 dollars for 4 days and 3 nights at the garden studios in woolloomooloo
: marlborough gave one of their less impressive displays yesterday when they lost 32 to 7 at lansdowne park to wellington who led 12 to 3 at halftime it was not an inspiring game only in the last 20 minutes did wellington run away with the game
: by the interval thames valley led 17 to 7 and going into the wind found the visitors had tightened up their play when captain irvine campbell scored try 2 and glen dalgetys conversion was on target valley was out to a 23 to 10 lead after 13 minutes
: nelson bays scored the necessary tries late in the game to beat east coast 28 to 4 in a national third division rugby match at tikitiki on the east coast yesterday east coast scored the only first half try and held nelson to a 9 to 4 score at halftime
: forward power carried waikato to a 37 to 10 victory over hawkes bay in their non championship rugby match on napiers mclean park yesterday waikato ran in seven tries to the bays two and led 27 to 0 at hailtime after playing with a strong wind
: some things never change its sepember and next weekend the all blacks tour party to france will be named on the same weekend 85 years ago the 1905 all blacks played the first game of their tour to britain france and north america they played 35 matches and lost only 1
: steven reinsfield in the 62 kg division was the best of the new zealand wrestlers at the world championships in tokyo recording the countrys only win reinsfield beat hugarian nomith 5 to 3 in his second bout but was eliminated after suffering his second loss in 3 bouts to frenchman berger 4 to 2
: belgium based professional peter jackson took home mere lolly money but winning the singles title at the telethonsponsorships in lower hutt meant a whole lot more than dollars jackson hauled in 280 dollars from winning 3 titles and in the process he won his first singles championship having finished runner up 5 times over the past 6 or 7 years
: new zealand golfer greg turner failed to capitalise on a flying start in the second round of the european open tournament at sunningdale turner well placed after the first round when he recorded one under 69 to be 5 strokes behind leader hugh baiocchi of south africa birdied his first 3 holes yesterday
: australian all rounder tony dodemaide thwarted sri lankas attempt to force victory over sussex with a stubborn 33 not out on the third and final day of their cricket match on friday sri lanka had reduced sussex to 102 for 6 as the county pursuid a victory target of 297 in 48 overs
: needing a further 195 when the final 20 overs started sussex called off the chase and forced a draw at 147 for six after the seventh wicket pair dodemaide and wicketkeeper peter moores had put on 42 in an unbroken stand
: sri lanka had declared just after lunch at 188 for 9 with marvan attapattu hitting 74 not out attapattu who resumed on two with his side 28 for 3 overnight battered for 53 overs stroking 9 fours while facing 158 deliveries
: waugh whose impressive middle order batting has contributed to essexs surge to the top of the table in recent weeks caused a northamptonshire collapse from 117 for 2 to 196 all out on the first day at chelmford the australian who had claimed just 6 first class wickets in previous games this season
: turned in his incisive spell despite a split finger which he suffered earlier in the day when holding a slip catch waugh snapped up 3 wickets in his first 2 overs and returned for a second spell in which he added 2 more victims including dismissing england vice captain allan lamb for 64 with a return catch
: Of these 16 will be used for communications of which just under half will be used by developing countries In Western Europe Frost and Sullivan predicts that the total earth station market will be worth 121 million dollars by the end of this year growing to 626 million by 1993
: essex 185 for 5 at close were anchored by their england captain graham gooch who continued his prolific form by making 92 while waugh hit 44 middlesex were 108 for 3 against nottinghamshire at lords when ramprakash and brown joined forces in a fourth wicket stand of 188
: of 188 which helped to carry the score to 358 for 4 hampshires west indian fast bowler malcolm marshall rocked glamorgan at pontypridd capturing five for 45 as the welsh county were all out for 210 hampshire replied with 92 for 3 by the close
