The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in central Italy. The main shock occurred at 3:32 local time (1:32 UTC) on 6 April 2009, and was rated 5.8 on the Richter scale. Read more
Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971-72 which discovered it) is a system that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region. At more than 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up to 7 km deep, the Valles Marineris rift system is the largest know...
Title: 225 GHz Atmospheric Opacity Measurements from Two Arctic Sites Authors: S. Matsushîta (1), M.-T. Chen (1), P. Martin-Cocher (1), K. Asada (1), C.-P. Chen (1), M. Inoue (1), S. Paine (2), D. Turner (3), E. Steinbring (4) ((1) ASIAA, (2) SAO, (3) National Severe Storms Laboratory, (4) HIA) We r...
Title: The Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 2005hk
Authors: V. Stanishev, S. Taubenberger, G. Blanc, G.C. Anupama, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, N. Elias-Rosa, C. Feron, A. Goobar, K. Krisciunas, A. Pastorello, D.K. Sahu, M.E. Salvo, B.P. Schmidt, J. Sollerman, C.C. Thone, M. Turatto...
Title: HST observations of the quasar PKS 0637-752: equipartition electron-proton jet from the most complete spectral coverage to date Authors: Kushal T. Mehta, Markos Georganopoulos, Eric S. Perlman, Charles A. Padgett, George Chartas We present new NICMOS and ACS observations of the quasar...
August 12th, 2007 8:47 GMT: An earthquake which registered a 4.7 magnitude in Ciudad Real, has been felt all over Spain with more intensity in the centre of the country. Residents in the surroundings of Madrid reported at least 5 seconds of shaking. Read more
Title: Circumstellar Habitable Zones of Binary Star Systems in the Solar Neighbourhood Authors: Siegfried Eggl, Elke Pilat-Lohinger, Barbara Funk, Nikolaos Georgakarakos, Nader Haghighipour Binary and multiple systems constitute more than half of the total stellar population in the Solar...
Title: Kinematics and chemical abundances of the B star HD 28248 Authors: Ronaldo S. Levenhagen, Roseli Künzel, Nelson V. Leister We perform a detailed elemental abundance study of the early-type B star HD 28248 and estimate its orbital path in the Galaxy. From the comparison of spectroscopic obs...
The 8 - 18 metre wide asteroid 2008 CT1 will make a close pass (26.2 lunar distances, 0.0674 au), travelling at 15.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd October, 2012 @ 20:31 UT ą15:38. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The Blantyre mining disaster, which happened on the morning of 22 October 1877, in Blantyre, Scotland, was and remains Scotlands worst mining accident. Pits No. 2 and No. 3 of William Dixon's Blantyre Colliery were the site of an explosion which killed 207 miners, the youngest being a boy of 11. It wa...
Erasmus Reinhold (October 22, 1511 - February 19, 1553) was a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation. He was born and died in Saalfeld, Saxony. Read more
Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] - September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was th...
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies' 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. Read more [video=http://www.youtub...
