Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Mine In The Americas Archaeologists have discovered a 12,000-year-old iron oxide mine in Chile that marks the oldest evidence of organised mining ever found in the Americas, according to a report in the June issue of Current Anthropology. A team of researchers led b...
Chuva de meteoros no Acre Cinegrafista amador flagra chuva de meteoros no Acre na noite de sábado (23/04/2011) Ed ~ This may have been the re-entry of Proton Breeze M Debris (Tank)
Try out the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) browse interface - Quickmap. Start at reduced WAC resolution and end up on the surface at full NAC resolution. Quickmap is brand new - and not 100% refined. But it is ready for testing! [url=http://target.lroc.asu.edu/da/qmap.html]See more[/...
ISRO has successfully launched the RH 200 rocket, which had a part of its payload developed by students from Vellore Institute of Technology University (VITU) in Tamil Nadu. The RH 200 rocket, a technology demonstrator flight, was launched on July 7 from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Statio...
The Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) is an Indian spaceport, operated by the Indian Space Research Organization. It is located in Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram which is near the southern tip of India, very close to earth's magnetic equator. It currently used by ISRO for launchin...
Cardiff researchers are helping to design a revolutionary Einstein Telescope that aims to see right back in time as far back as the Big Bang. They believe the telescope would make it possible to measure distance and time between cosmic forces such as black holes, far more accurately than ever before...
A SL-6 rocket body that was launched by a Molniya-M carrier rocket on the 1st July, 1998, from the Plesetsk launch site for the MOLNIYA 3-49 mission (Decayed 2011-02-02) is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 18th May, 2011 @ 20:48 GMT ± 48 hours. SL6 RB 1 25382U 98040D 11135.34251799 .2...
Title: The Ara OB 1a Association Authors: Scott J. Wolk, Fernando Comeron, Tyler Bourke The Ara OB1a association is one of the closest sites where triggered star formation is visible for multiple generations of massive stars. At about 1.3 kpc distance, it contains complex environments including...
Senatobia-1 Balloon launchMission Status: Go for Launch! Mission Control Centre: NASA (ARC) Launch Location: Near Gainsville, Florida Launch Coordinates: Announced at Launch Time Launch Time: 0730hrs (7:30am EST) Predicted Touchdown location: Flagler County Launch and Countdown Team Mem...
The Hartslock Nature Reserve in Oxfordshire, England, has successfully interbred a monkey orchid (Orchis simia) and a lady orchid (Orchis purpurea) to produce a new hybrid variety.
The botanical feat is the first of its kind in Britain and its success could help determine the pa...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, host for the 27th annual Science Olympiad National Tournament, which runs May 18-21, will offer a live web videocast of the Friday, May 20 tournament opening ceremony and Saturday, May 21 closing ceremony. More than 6,000 middle- and high-school participan...
Title: A new Planetary Nebula in the outer reaches of the Galaxy Authors: K. Viironen, A. Mampaso, R. L. M. Corradi, J. E. Drew, D. J. Frew, C. Giammanco, R. Greimel, T. Liimets, J. E. Lindberg, M. Rodríguez, L. Sabin, S. E. Sale, P. A. Wilson, A. Zijlstra A proper determination of the abundance gradien...
Earth vs. Space Match 2011 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on Monday morning, May 16, at 8:56 AM EDT. The launch of Endeavour marks the second-to-last launch of the Space Shuttle program - and the start of the second Earth vs. Space Chess Match, sponsored by NASA in conjunction with the U.S. Chess F...
