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The Lewes avalanche occurred on 27 December 1836 in Lewes, Sussex, when a huge build-up of snow on a chalk cliff overlooking the town collapsed into the settlement 100 metres below, destroying a row of cottages and killing eight people. It remains the deadliest avalanche on record in the United King...

Title: A new Milky Way halo star cluster in the Southern Galactic Sky Authors: Eduardo Balbinot, B. X. Santiago, L. da Costa, M. A. G. Maia, S. R. Majewski, D. Nidever, H. J. Rocha-Pinto, D. Thomas, R. H. Wechsler, B. Yanny We report on the discovery of a new Milky Way companion stellar system located at...

Title: BK Lyncis: The Oldest Old Nova?... And a Bellwether for Cataclysmic-Variable Evolution Authors: Joseph Patterson (1), Helena Uthas (1), Jonathan Kemp (1), Enrique de Miguel (2), Thomas Krajci (3), Jerry Foote (3), Franz-Josef Hambsch (3), Tut Campbell (3), George Roberts (3), David Cej...

Orbital elements: 2012 YM3 Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 353.22638 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21072226 Peri. 340.16714 +0.63887651 -0.76709586 a 2.7968066 Node 70.07901 +0.71393437 +0.56294539 e 0.5308947 Incl. 3.55619 +0.28659120 +0.30766284 P 4.68 H 20.2 G 0.15 U 6 MPEC 2012 - Y21...

Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet of Brompton (27 December 1773 - 15 December 1857) was a prolific English engineer and one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics. Many consider him the first true scientific aerial investigator and the first person to understand the underlying pri...

The Cave of Swallows, also called Cave of the Swallows (Spanish: Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open air pit cave in the Municipality of Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The elliptical mouth, on a slope of karst, is 49 by 62 m wide and is undercut around all its perimeter, further widening to a room...

A muddy river bank in the flat, watery landscape of southern Essex may seem an unlikely place to find one of the most important ships in scientific history. But a combination of painstaking detective work and archaeology have convinced maritime historian Dr Robert Prescott that the banks of the Riv...

Mega ice meteor lands in Morocco[url=http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/26/mega-ice-meteor-lands-in-morocco/]Read...

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Imaging Polarimetry of Circumstellar Environments with ExPo A team of Dutch astronomers designed and built the innovative imaging polarimeter ExPo (the Extreme Polarimeter), which is a regular visitor instrument at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). ExPo was designed and built at Utrecht...

Hypergiant star amazes for 30 years A European research team has published the results of a 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant star. They have found that the surface temperature of the super-luminous star HR 8752 increased by about 3000 degrees in less than three decades, while it went th...

Orbital elements: 2012 YR3 Earth MOID = 0.0108 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 347.44736 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20889056 Peri. 329.73545 +0.47298845 -0.86855051 a 2.8131324 Node 91.67442 +0.83514224 +0.38844095 e 0.6633943 Incl. 8.51430 +0.28074786 +0.30778831 P 4.72 H 26.3 G...

Orbital elements: 2012 YO3 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0477 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 349.83945 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25720761 Peri. 351.40088 +0.92440933 -0.38000854 a 2.4487635 Node 30.99649 +0.35358350 +0.82183792 e 0.6771511 Incl. 3.62624 +0.14298989 +0.42447138 P 3.83 H 2...

Orbital elements: 2012 YN3 Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 348.58641 (2000.0) P Q n 0.15204710 Peri. 4.04658 +0.02746311 -0.96259287 a 3.4765672 Node 84.53013 +0.90936732 -0.08791578 e 0.6156814 Incl. 15.71126 +0.41508657 +0.25629239 P 6.48 H 20.1 G 0.15 U 7 MPEC 2012 - Y22

Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson dies Gerry Anderson, creator of the Thunderbirds and Joe 90 puppet superhero TV shows, has died at the age of 83, his son has announced. Anderson had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease since early 2010, and his condition had worsened in the past six months,...