Title: A Chandra Proper Motion for PSR J1809-2332 Authors: Adam Van Etten, Roger W. Romani, C.-Y. Ng We report on a new Chandra exposure of PSR J1809-2332, the recently discovered pulsar powering the bright EGRET source 3EG J1809-2328. By registration of field X-ray sources in an archival exposur...
Title: The Planeterrella experiment: from individual initiative to networking Authors: Jean Lilensten, Gabrielle Provan, Sandrine Grimald, Asgeir Brekke, Erwin Fluckiger, Petra Vanlommel, Cyril Simon Wedlund, Mathieu Barthélémy, Philippe Garnier Space weather is a relatively new d...
Alternative 3 is a television programme, broadcast once only in the United Kingdom in 1977, and later broadcast in Australia and New Zealand, as a fictional hoax, an heir to Orson Welles' radio production of The War of the Worlds. Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "b...
SCAE - Southern California Astronomy Exposition Come and join the fun all day long at the SCAE Astronomy Expo on Saturday, July 14th, 2012 starting at 10:00AM. Almost forty different astronomy product manufacturers, organizations, and clubs will be at OPTs beautiful showroom location to show of...
Closing date nears for 2012 Prime Ministers Science Prizes www.pmscienceprizes.org.nz New Zealand's current and future science heroes are nearing the deadline to enter the 2012 Prime Minister's Science Prizes. The prizes are this countrys most prestigious science awards, with a total of $1 mi...
Doublet-triplet splitting problem In particle physics, the doublet-triplet (splitting) problem is a problem of some Grand Unified Theories, such as SU(5), SO(10), . Grand unified theories predict Higgs bosons (doublets of SU(2)) arise from representations of the unified group that contain o...
Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title Th...
Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk (born July 10, 1942 in Kamaroka, Brest Voblast, Byelorussian SSR, is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into space. Read more
Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 - February 28, 2006) was an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery, with collaborator Emilio Segrè, of antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle. Read more
Antrix and EADS Astrium enter communications satellite partnership
Antrix and EADS Astrium have agreed to jointly address the commercial market for communications satellites with payload power below 4 Kw and a launch mass in the range of 2 to 3 tons.
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The 490 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 2000 JB6 will make a close pass (69.3 lunar distances, 0.1780 AU), travelling at 6.42 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th July, 2012 @ 05:10 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
5,300-year-old Mongolian statue pieced together Archaeologists of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have finished reconstituting a 5,300-year-old pottery statue from fragments unearthed at the Xinglonggou relics site in Aohan banner of Chifeng city. [url=http://www.chinadaily.co...
Title: Effectively four-dimensional spacetimes emerging from d=5 Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity Authors: Fernando Izaurieta, Eduardo Rodríguez Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in five-dimensional spacetime provides an excellent example of a theory that, while including higher-order c...
Spaceport America Installs Lunar Lander Launch Pads Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, has installed three launch pads for NASA's 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lande Centennial Challenge, which is administered by the X PRIZE Foundation to spur innovatio...
