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Moon rocks stolen
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Someone has stolen a silver briefcase containing "meteorite samples" and "lunar samples" from a vehicle, a projector was also taken. They belong to NASA contracted instructors, who use them for educational purposes.
The rocks are sealed inside two clear plastic disks labelled with identific...
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"7+2" program
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A 7-member non-official Chinese expedition team will participate in the South Pole expedition program this December as part of China's "7+2" program.
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Tropical Storm Zeta
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Tropical Storm Zeta has formed in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on December 30th. This storm extends the record-breaking 2005 season to 27 storms, and it's the 6th storm named using the Greek alphabet.
The Atlantic hurricane season official ended on November 30th; however, more storms can form a...
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Micronesia Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 05:51:14 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 20, 2005, in the State of Yap, Federal States of Micronesia, about 430 km North east of Yap.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 35 km
Location 12.194°N, 140.988°E
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GlobalFlyer
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NASA announced on Friday that the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida would be the takeoff site for an attempt to set the record for the longest flight of an aircraft or balloon.
NASA and Virgin Atlantic Airways’ agreement to use Kennedy's Space Shuttle Landing Facility is the result of a pil...
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Milagro Observatory
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Physicists at nearly a dozen research institutions, including New York University, have discovered evidence for very high-energy gamma rays emitting from the Milky Way, marking the highest energies ever detected from the galactic equator. Their findings, published in the December 16th issue...
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Narwhals Tusk
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Martin Nweeia, DMD, DDS, has answered a marine science question that has eluded the scientific community for hundreds of years: why does the narwhal, or "unicorn," whale have an 8-foot-long tooth emerging from its head, and what is its function?
He has discovered that the narwhal's tooth has h...
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Hemel Hempstead
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Firefighters are mounting a massive operation to smother the ferocious fire still raging at a Hertfordshire oil depot after more than 24 hours.
The crews have been working through the night to contain the blaze, maintaining a curtain of water between the flames and seven unexploded fuel tanks, e...
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Tropical Storm Epsilon
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The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season continues to set new records.
By November 29, the record for the number of named storms in a season hit 26 with the formation of Tropical Storm Epsilon.
This record shattered the previous mark of 21 set in 1933. Although hurricane season officially end...
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Linfen observatory
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Archaeologists in northern China have reportedly found one of the world's oldest observatories.
The remains, discovered near the city of Linfen in Shanxi province, are thought to be about 4,100 years old.
Wang Shouguan, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that the...
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Typhoon Bolaven
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Typhoon Bolaven has taken a week to build to typhoon strength as it slowly crossed the Philippine Sea between November 13 and November 18, 2005. The storm had been a Category 1 typhoon for just over 24 hours when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captur...
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Tropical Storm Gamma
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Tropical Storm Gamma weakened Sunday into a tropical depression after it deluged the Central American coast. The storm struck Honduras at about 03:00 GMT on 20 November. Landfall was near 16.4 N, 85.8 W.
Forecasters said the slow-moving Gamma, the 24th named storm of an already record-breaking...
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Siberian Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 19:29:54 (UTC) on Thursday, November 10, 2005 in South Eastern Siberia, Russia, 315 km West-Northwest of Nagornyy.
Location 57.445°N, 120.498°E
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Bismarck Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 10:48:21 (UTC) on Saturday, November 5, 2005, in the Bismarck Sea, 160 km SE of Lorengau, Manus Island.
Location 3.163°S, 148.133°E
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Keck Podcasts
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Podcasts about the science and technology taking place at the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
October 2005
"Violence in the Young Universe"
Dr. Charles Steidel of the California Institute of Technology talks about an exciting time in our Universe, marked w...
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