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Calamus Observatory
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A freshly built observatory dome houses a high-powered 40-centimetre, mirrored telescope. One day soon, wine sippers will be able to gaze at the stars. The automated telescope -- lent to Saunders by a friend -- will eventually allow users to control it through the Internet. Saunders said Calamus i...
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STERN rocket motor
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A team of engineers from Bristol University finished the test programme last week [Friday 19 September] with 12 hot firings successfully completed. In each experiment the engine was held down on a heavily instrumented test stand providing data on pressures, temperature, flow rates and thrust....
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Tropical Storm Kyle
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Tropical storm Kyle has developed in the North Atlantic and is currently positioned at 25.6N, 68.3W, about 1 400 km east of Miami, Florida, USA.
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Tropical cyclone Jangmi
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The 15th tropical cyclone of the year in the western North Pacific, Severe Tropical Storm Jangmi, has developed.
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Daisuke Enomoto
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A Japanese businessman who trained for a 10-day flight aboard the international space station has sued to get his money back, claiming he was defrauded of $21 million by the U.S. firm that arranged the venture. Daisuke Enomoto, 37, had completed training in Russia and planned to fly to the station ab...
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Dr Rodney David Marks
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A New Zealand coroner has concluded that the reasons surrounding the death from methanol poisoning of an Australian scientist working at the South Pole eight years ago, remain a mystery. Dr Rodney David Marks, 32, died in May 2000 while working with 49 other scientists at a research base operated by...
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Chickamauga planetarium
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The Walker County school system is constructing a new planetarium, after 10 years of planning. The $750,000 facility will be built at the Science and Technology Centre on Pond Springs School Road in Chickamauga. It will replace the original planetarium in Rock Spring that was built in 1966 and clos...
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Tropical Storm Hagupit
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Tropical Storm Hagupit is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines in about 43 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% probability for TS is 75%
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Dudley Observatory
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Wanted: Site for gazing up at the stars Dudley Observatory wants to put telescope up for public viewing Read more
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Bay of Firth Structures
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Stories about mysterious underwater structures in the Bay of Firth have been circulating for a number of years. But now, a sonar survey of the area hopes to answer, once and for all,what lies on the sea bed. The week-long project came to an end last Friday. At the helm is local archaeologist Caroline Wi...
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Davis Hall observatory
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Davis Halls observatory offers much to students interested in celestial objects beyond campus. The observatorys staff assists visitors in finding all types of outer space interests from nebulas and galaxies to constellations and planets. The dome-like area includes a 14-inch reflector teles...
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Reef
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A 650-million-year-old underwater reef found in southern Australia could solve the mysteries of planet's climate change history, according to scientists. The researchers of University of Melbourne researchers have discovered the reef, located in South Australias Flinders Ranges. [url=ht...
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Astrophysicist Elihu Boldt
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South African space and aeronautical technologies school
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South Africa's first space and aeronautical technologies school could be built in the Western Cape. News of the project emerged at last week's second SA International Aerospace Symposium held at Spier in Stellenbosch. This year's theme was Advancing Africa through Partnerships in Aerospace. [...
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Leroy Chiao
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Leroy Chiao - 1st Chinese-American astronaut Leroy Chiao is the first Chinese-American astronaut to walk in space. He's been paying a lot of attention to China's space program. Read more
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