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The Big Bang and Dark Energy
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Date: Monday, 06 October 2008 Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm Room: Ihaca Auditorium Location: Brisbane City Hall Did the Big Bang happen? How can we be sure? What evidence is there at the present time for the Big Bang happening? What is dark energy? How is it connected to the Big Bang? How are astronomers cu...
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Library presentations
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"Through the Eyes of Hubble" will be hosted by the Des Plaines Valley Public Library District in: Lockport: 7 p.m. Wednesday at the library, 121 E. Eighth St. Crest Hill: 7 p.m. Oct. 15 at the library, 1298 Theodore St. No registration is required, and the event is free. [url=http://www.s...
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Brian Binnie
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Brian Binnie, 55, is set to speak at the Orion Congress tourism conference on October 11 at Atlantis The Palm, where he will deliver a 45-minute presentation to highlight the "new frontier of the hospitality industry", according to the Regional Manager of Orion Hotel Schools, Adam Sarg...
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Sun 03.10.08
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Cafe Scientifique
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A science forum that hosts informal debates in cafes, bars and restaurants is to be launched in Inverness. The city's first "Cafe Scientifique", which were started in France in the early 1990s, is to be held in Borders Bookshop on 4 October. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news...
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On August 29 from midnorthern latitudes, Venus will be visible low above the western horizon after sunset. If you're lucky you might catch Mars and Mercury too. If you can't find it, keep looking during the coming weeks; Venus will set later after sunset every night, eventually becoming an unmissab...
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Second Hinode Science Meeting
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29 September- 3 October 2008 Boulder, Colorado USA Source
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Back to the Galaxy II (Conference)
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In addition to revisiting the crucial questions from the 1992 October Astrophysics symposium "Back to the Galaxy" with 15 years of hindsight, this conference will embody our KITP program goals of bringing together multiple sub-fields of current Milky Way research. [url=http://www...
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59th International Astronautical Congress
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The 59th International Astronautical Congress is taking place between 29 September and 3 October in Glasgow, Scotland. IAC 2008 is being organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the British Interplanetary Society (BIS). [url=http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMI16Q4K...
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40th Annual DPS Conference
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Hundreds of astronomers to invade Ithaca The solar system will rock as more than 700 planetary scientists from around the world descend on Ithaca for the 40th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), held on the Cornell University camp...
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Meteorites, Metals and Mankind
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David Burleigh, New Mexico Tech associate professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, will present a public lecture on meteorites from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in Jones Annex 101, on the Tech campus. The lecture is titled Meteorites, Metals and Mankind. Burleigh will discuss the im...
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Professor Sir John Pendry
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Leading physicists gather in London to celebrate the career of Professor Sir John Pendry Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and super high speed computer chips of the future will be among topics under discussion at a special two-day symposium next week in celebration of the career of Imperial Colle...
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Sun 23.09.08
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Dr Robin Catchpole
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Astronomer to talk about sun School pupils are encouraged to attend a fun lecture by a top astronomer about the sun. The free illustrated lecture, open to the public, will take place at Forum 28 on Wednesday October 1 at 7.30pm. It will be the seventh lecture about space and the planets given in Barrow b...
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Great Red Spot collision
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The two biggest storms in the solar system are about to go bump in the night, in plain view of backyard telescopes.
Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around [url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?for...
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