Korabl-Sputnik 4 (Russian: Ship-Satellite 4) or Vostok-3KA No.1, also known as Sputnik 9 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched on the 9th Match, 1961. It was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, carrying the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Chernushka, some mice and a guine...
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminised Latin version of his first name. Read more
The 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake was a magnitude 8.6 MW (8.3 Ms) megathrust earthquake that took place on March 9, 1957. It was centered at 51.5°N 175.7°W in the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust, south of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. Read more
Acadia University researchers are studying a meteorite crater south of Bridgetown, with the possibility of proving other meteors came down here thousands, if not millions, of years ago. The group led by Ian Spooner, an environmental geo-scientist in the earth and environmental science departm...
Meteorite Crater Found in Nova Scotia A blast much like that of an atomic bomb shattered the frozen subarctic quiet during the wane of New Englands glacier age. Read more
On Friday, Esa Alanen and family visited the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, as guests of ESA, to say thanks for relinquishing the Twitter name www.twitter.com/esa. When ESA went to open its Twitter account last year, the name was already taken. The ESA web team was stuck - 'European Space Age...
Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy A team of astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. Hubble's view of the distant background galaxy, which lies nearly 10 billion light-year...
Spitzer Spies a 'Flying Dragon' Smouldering with Secret Star Birth NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a cosmic cloud shaped like a flying dragon that has a secret burning behind its dark scales. Though appearances deceive, stars are forming in this cloud about as fast as in a neighbouring...
"Sometime between January 27 and March 3, a person or persons entered my office at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy at 640 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawaii and removed meteorites from within it. The items were important research specimens and teaching tools I use in educatio...
Title: Strong interactions between g- and p-modes in the hybrid gamma Doradus-delta Scuti CoRoT star ID105733033 Authors: E. Chapellier, P. Mathias, W. W. Weiss, D. Le Contel, J. Debosscher CoRoT ID 105733033 is an excellent example of hybrid pulsators as it shows g- and p-modes with almost simil...
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich FRS (8 March 1914 - 2 December 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist born in Belarus. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, n...
Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 - August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver (ca.1830s-1850s), and at the age of 40 became involved in telescop...
A Chang Zheng-4B rocket body that was launched on the 9th January 2012, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch site, for the Ziyuan III satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 1st March, 2012 @ --GMT ± -- hours.CZ-4B RB
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