INSAT-2E completes 13 years of successful operation After 13 years of operation, INSAT-2E, the last of the five satellites in the INSAT-2 series, has successfully completed its mission life. INSAT-2E was built with a planned mission life of 12 years and continued to function beyond that, the Indi...
Title: Presolar Grains from Novae: Evidence from Neon and Helium Isotopes in Comet Dust Collections Authors: Robert O. Pepin, Russell L. Palma, Robert D. Gehrz, Sumner Starrfield Presolar grains in meteorites and interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) carry non-solar isotopic signatures poin...
Title: CCD Photometric Investigation of A W UMa-Type Binary GSC 0763-0572 Authors: W. Kriwattanawong, P. Pooseekheaw A photometric solution of an A-type W UMa binary, GSC 0763-0572 is examined with a revised orbital period. The overcontect degree is found as f = 40.66 %, with low mass ratio of q = 0....
Title: Non-detection of the Tooth Fairy at Optical Wavelengths Authors: Eve Armstrong We report a non-detection, to a limiting magnitude of V = 18.4 (9), of the elusive entity commonly described as the Tooth Fairy. We review various physical models and conclude that follow-up observations must p...
Fireball most likely space garbage or meteorite Meteor People who reported seeing a fiery ball of light in the cloudless noon sky today really did see an unidentified flying object. The flying object has not been identified. But no one has conjectured that it held little green men with giant eyes. Re...
Witnesses report 'fireball' meteor There have been numerous reports of what appears to be a meteor shooting across the sky in the South Island and lower North Island. Sightings of a "ball of coloured flame" or "silver fireball" have been witnessed in Christchurch, Whanga...
Leadbeater's Possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) is an endangered possum restricted to small pockets of remaining old growth mountain ash forests in the central highlands of V...
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Read more Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes?Gerald the g...
Virgil Ivan Grissom (April 3, 1926 - January 27, 1967), (Lt Col, USAF), better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot. He was the second American to fly in space, and th...
The Super Outbreak is the largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period. From April 3 to April 4, 1974, there were 148 tornadoes confirmed in 13 US states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virgini...
Luna 10 (E-6S series) was a Luna program, robotic spacecraft mission, also called Lunik 10. The Luna 10 spacecraft was launched towards the Moon from an Earth orbiting platform on March 31, 1966. Read more
The dwarf nova CZ Orionis is in outburst Date of Outburst: 4th October 2008 Magnitude: 11.2 - 15.6 V Outburst Period: 25.73 days Satellite rotation: 0.2189 days Type: Dwarf Nova Position(2000): RA=06 16 43.23, Dec= +15 24 11.7
First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million years ago at temperatures 3...
