On August 6, 1996 Martian meteorite ALH 84001 became newsworthy when it was announced that the meteorite may contain evidence for traces of life from Mars, as published in an article in Science by David McKay of NASA Read more
Title: IRAS 20050+2720: Anatomy of a young stellar cluster Authors: H. M. Guenther, S. J. Wolk, B. Spitzbart, R. A. Gutermuth, J. Forbrich, N. J. Wright, L. Allen, T. L. Bourke, S. T. Megeath, J. L. Pipher IRAS 20050+2720 is young star forming region at a distance of 700 pc without apparent high mass st...
Title: A UV Ultra-luminous Lyman Break Galaxy at Z=2.78 in NDWFS Bootes Field Authors: Fuyan Bian (1), Xiaohui Fan (1), Linhua Jiang (1), Arjun Dey (2), Richard F. Green (3), Roberto Maiolino (4), Fabian Walter (5), Ian McGreer (1), Ran Wang (1), Yen-Ting Lin (6) ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) NOAO,...
Zond 2 was an automatic interplanetary station launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (64-078A) in Earth parking orbit towards Mars to test space-borne systems and to carry out scientific investigations. Read more...
Title: Spitzer/MIPS Observations of Stars in the Beta Pictoris Moving Group Authors: L. M. Rebull (SSC), K. R. Stapelfeldt (JPL), M. W. Werner (JPL), V. G. Mannings (SSC), C. Chen (NOAO), J. R. Stauffer (SSC), P. S. Smith (U.Arizona), I. Song (SSC), D. Hines (SSI), F. J. Low (U. Arizona) We present Mu...
All in the blue unclouded weather, Thick jewelled shone the saddle-leather. The helmet, and the helmet-feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down from Camelot. As often thro' the purple night, Below the starry cluster...
Cecil Howard Green (August 6, 1900 - April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 - November 30, 2003) was an American competitive swimmer. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel on the morning of August 6, 1926.
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"Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay Read more Hiroshima Nagasaki Memories in the Americas: Takashi Tanemori (USA)
The War Game is a 1965 television documentary-style drama depicting the effects of nuclear war on Britain. Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology series, it caused dismay within the BBC and in government and was withdrawn from television trans...
Prometheus (aka WPN-114) was the nickname given to the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, USA. The tree, which was at least 4862 years old and likely approaching or over 5000 years, was...
The 13 - 28 metre wide asteroid 2006 EC will make a close pass (36.3 lunar distances, 0.0932 AU), travelling at 6.13 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th August, 2012 @ 03:59 UT ±00:32. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
Conference: 100 Years Cosmic Rays - Anniversary of Their Discovery by V. F. Hess Dates: from 05 August 2012 19:00 to 08 August 2012 18:45 Timezone: Europe/Berlin Location: Die Bühne, Bad Saarow/Pieskow "Die Bühne" im Bahnhofshotel Bahnhofsplatz 3 15526 Bad Saarow Germany [url=https...
Delhi schoolboys discover asteroids In what is being considered a rare feat by experts, four schoolboys from Delhi have discovered two asteroids. Shubham Sharma and Mayank Sharma of DAV Centenary School, Paschim Vihar and young Astronomicans (amateur astronomer's wing of SPACE) Sahil Wadhwa a...
