Jonathan hails launch of NigComSat in China President Goodluck Jonathan has hailed the successful launch of the new Nigerian communications satellite on Monday in Xichang, China, as another great step forward for the country towards the development of a modern, knowledge- driven society. [url...
Laacher See or Laach Lake (in English) is a caldera lake in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated close to the cities of Koblenz, Mayen (11 km), and Andernach (14 km). It fills a volcanic caldera in the Eifel mountain range, the only caldera in Central Europe. It is part of the area of the "eas...
Hexdex Takes Gaming to New Dimensions Imagine you're immersed - virtually - in the rings of Saturn. The ship moves with your body, reacting subtly yet swiftly. Armed with a remote control and your talent for dodging flying objects without l...
Russia is planning to mine a rare fuel on the Moon by 2020 with a permanent base and a heavy-cargo transport link.
"We are planning to build a permanent base on the Moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery ... of the rare isotope Helium-3" - Nikolai Sevastyanov, he...
Many meteorites fall throughout the year, and despite the fact that many are incinerated by the atmosphere, I would daresay the quantity of meteoric fragments arriving annually from above, exceeds the quantity of diamonds annually arriving from below, dug up from diamond mines. Of the number of &...
Jessops TAC 360 70 Refractor Objective 70mm Focal length 360 (f5) 20 and 9mm 0.965" Huygen eyepieces 90 degree diagonal 3X Barlow and 1.5X erecting lenses. Finder * Table top tripod These small richfield refractors can be purchased secondhand for less than £25. For the price this achromatic ...
Luna 1 (E-1 series), first known as First Cosmic Ship, then known as Mechta (Russian: , lit.: Dream) was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and the first of the Luna program of Soviet automatic interplanetary stations successfully launched in the direction of the Moon. Luna 1 was l...
Maxima of long period variable S Pyxidis on the 2nd January, 2012. Magnitude: 9.0-13.9 Period: 206.1 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 09 05 04.60 | Dec. -25° 05' 19.8''
Maxima of long period variable Y Librae on the 2nd January, 2012. Magnitude: 8.6-14.1 Period: 275.7 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 15 11 41.30861 | Dec. -06° 00' 41.3727''
The Blizzard of 1999 was a strong winter snowstorm which struck the Midwest United States and portions of eastern Canada, hitting hardest in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Ontario and Quebec dumping as much as 60 cm of snow in many areas. Chicago received a recorded 55 cm. The s...
Berchtoldstag (also Bechtelstag, Bechtle, Bechtelistag, Berchtelistag, Bächtelistag, Bärzelistag) is an Alemannic holiday, known in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace. Read more
Dr. Donald B. Keck (b. January 2, 1941) is an American research physicist and engineer most noted for his involvement in developing low-loss optical fibre. Read more
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (Born Rudolf Gottlieb, 2 January 1822 - 24 August 1888), was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics. Read more
