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Unknown ancient kingdom found in China An unknown kingdom dating back to 1046 B.C. has been unearthed in north China, archaeologists said. The kingdom is probably from the Xizhou dynasty (1046 to 771 B.C.), Xinhua reported. Engraving on bronze wares found in tombs in Shanxi provinces Linfen city i...

Title: A New Etymology for Hamlet? the Names Amlethus, Amlodi and Admlithi Authors: L. A. Collinson The Hamlet-name may have been associated with players several centuries earlier than has hitherto been thought. It is well-known that Hamlet is related to Amlethus, found in Gesta Danorum, by Saxo...

Orbital elements: 2011 HG Earth MOID = 0.1643 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 318.82349 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23071015 Peri. 254.40202 +0.44840926 +0.87642723 a 2.6328427 Node 43.64921 -0.69126605 +0.46451963 e 0.6252460 Incl. 14.73070 -0.56663955 +0.12687331 P 4.27 H 21.0 G 0....

Orbital elements: 2011 DV PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0071 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 123.37863 (2000.0) P Q n 1.06790416 Peri. 344.42613 +0.95070358 -0.29432741 a 0.9479408 Node 33.19863 +0.30014540 +0.79423060 e 0.0554076 Incl. 10.27242 +0.07794511 +0.53157231 P 0.92 H 20.6 G 0.15 U...

Orbital elements: 2011 GR59 Earth MOID = 0.0088 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 277.73049 (2000.0) P Q n 0.71179908 Peri. 112.02907 -0.19986099 +0.97968498 a 1.2423132 Node 146.42872 -0.90962835 -0.17924941 e 0.2405184 Incl. 1.71202 -0.36418657 -0.08992772 P 1.38 H 23.3 G...

Soyuz 10 (Russian: Union 10) was a 1971 Soviet manned mission to the world's first space station, Salyut 1. However, the docking was not successful and the crew returned to Earth without having entered the station. Read more

Asteroid 2003 FF5 will make a near-Earth flyby (0.055 AU) on the 24th April, 2011. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2011 04 19 09 05.21 +43 16.7 0.0571 1.012 96.5 80.3 19.8 2011 04 20 08 57.83 +46 35.9 0.0562 1.009 93.2 83.6 19.9 2011 04 21 08 49.22 +49 59.3 0.0554 1.006 89.9 86.9 20...

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Mass burial suggests massacre at Iron Age hill fort Archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre linked to Iron Age warfare at a hill fort in Derbyshire. A burial site contained only women and children - the first segregated burial of this kind from Iron Age Britain. Nine skeletons were discover...

Isro satellite glitch robs farmers of data The centres, set up under Abita's Grameen Krishi Unnayan Prakalpa (GKUP), in collaboration with Isro, through the North East Space Application Centre, Shillong, had been equipped with two computers - one for weather updates and the other with video conf...

Orbital elements: 2007 BP102 Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 3.62062 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00847249 Peri. 125.30846 -0.65367966 -0.40007309 a 23.8302449 Node 45.22754 -0.44570670 -0.48246952 e 0.2563060 Incl. 64.80548 +0.61159499 -0.77920773 P 116.33 H 10.7 G 0.15 U 5 MPEC 2011 - H...

What makes the luminous star known as Object X look so dim? One might think that it would be hard to hide a star some 500,000 times more radiant than the sun, but distance and dust seem to have conspired to do just that. A group of astronomers has identified such a star in the Triangulum Galaxy, a neighbour...

Marine life 'flourishing' at Lamlash reserve A marine reserve set up off the Isle of Arran in 2008 is already flourishing with wildlife and commercially-valuable scallops, according to researchers. The small area of seabed in Lamlash Bay became the first protected site of its kind in Scotland. A s...

It was 40 years ago this month that an alien visitor dropped in on Wethersfield. Paul J. and Minnie Cassarino were sleeping in their house on Middletown Avenue early on the morning of April 8 when an uninvited guest from outer space crashed through their roof - a meteorite about three inches across. Th...

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