Asteroid 4768 Hartley (1988 PH1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 11, 1988 by Noymer, A. J. at Siding Spring. It was named in honour of Malcolm Hartley, deputy astronomer of the U.K. Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring, with which this minor planet was discovered. [url=http://en.wikip...
Title: X-rays from Colliding Stellar Winds: the case of close WR+O binary systems Authors: Svetozar A. Zhekov We have analysed the X-ray emission from a sample of close WR+O binaries using data from the public Chandra and XMM-Newton archives. Global spectral fits show that two-temperature plasm...
Space Systems/Loral, a provider of commercial satellites, and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), an Asian satellite operator, today announced the signing of two construction agreements for two communications satellites, AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8. The contracts in...
Teck Cominco Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) unveils the Teck Cominco Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures on December 20, 2008, on Level 2 of the Weston Family Wing on December 20, 2008. Divided into the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals, the Gallery of Ge...
First Earth-sized planets spotted Astronomers have detected the first Earth-sized planets, which are orbiting a star similar to our own Sun. In the distant past they may have been able to support life and one of them may have had conditions similar to our own planet - a so-called Earth-twin - accordi...
Engineers in Germany unveil a portable battery-powered laser marking instrument.
Compact Laser Solutions (CLS) of Germany has developed an A4-sized, battery powered laser marking device that weighs just 6 kg and can be used to permanently tag and verify parts already in service.
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Existing during the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic -- some 250 million years ago -- Pangaea is the supercontinent that comprised of all of our modern day continents, all rolled up in to one big one. Eurasia was up the top, swinging down through North and South America, cross to the east for Africa, then south...
Title: ICE CORE AND PALAEOCLIMATIC EVIDENCE FOR THE TIMING AND NATURE OF THE GREAT MID-13TH CENTURY VOLCANIC ERUPTION Authors: CLIVE OPPENHEIMER Ice cores from both the Arctic and Antarctic record a massive volcanic eruption in around AD 1258. The inter-hemispheric transport of ash and sulphat...
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Title: Cosmic Strings and Weak Gravitational Lensing Authors: Sergei Dyda, Robert H. Brandenberger (McGill University) We study the deflection of light in the background of a "wiggly" cosmic string, and investigate whether it is possible to detect cosmic strings by means of weak gra...
Title: AstroFit: An Interface Program for Exploring Complementarity in Dark Matter Research Authors: Nelly Nguyen, Dieter Horns, Torsten Bringmann AstroFit is an interface adding astrophysical components to programs for fitting physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) to experimental data...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide two high throughput communications satellites that will be used to deliver high speed broadband service to rural and remote areas of Australia . The satellites will be...
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