Asteroid (485) Genua is at Opposition on the 22nd March, 2011. Magnitude=11.4 Distance to Sun=2.522 AU Distance to Earth=1.528 AU Ephemeris Date Dec Ra 21 Mar 2011 -5°21'23.0993 29° 33 40 22 Mar 2011 -5°10'10.1764 29° 22 37 23 Mar 2011 -4°58'55.1983 29° 11 37 24 Mar 2011 -4°47'38.7911 29° 00 41 25 Mar...
The Severn Bore is one of Britain's few truly spectacular natural phenomena. It is a large surge wave that can be seen in the estuary of the River Severn, where the tidal range is the 2nd highest in the world, being as much as 50 feet (approx. 15.4m). [url=http://www.severn-bore.co.uk/]Read more[/u...
Just in time for Easter, the skeleton of a giant rabbit has been discovered, one that was once about six times the size of today's bunnies. On the small island of Minorca, researchers have unearthed an enormous fossil rabbit skeleton. A recent study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontol...
A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had two sibling studies, neither of which was published. Vials containing the products from those experiments were recen...
A SL-12 rocket body (Aux. Motor) that was launched on the 29th October, 2004, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, for the Express-AM 1 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 20th March, 2011 @ 16:03 GMT ± 6 hours. TLE Data pre>SL-12 RB (AUX MOTOR) 1 28478U 040...
French archaeologists have discovered the oldest known place of worship dedicated to the dugong, or sea cow, on an island just north of Dubai, two research centres said Thursday. The sanctuary believed to date back to 3,500 to 3,200 years BC was discovered on Akab island in the United Arab Emirates,...
Flows of lava accompanied by showers of molten rock shooting into the sky have forced villagers living close to a volcano in eastern Indonesia to shelter in schools and churches, officials said on Saturday.
Dali Ahmad, an Indonesian vulcanologist, said by telephone that there did not appear t...
Orbital elements: 2011 CY46 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0463 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 336.16355 (2000.0) P Q n 0.31562016 Peri. 220.81572 -0.61603054 +0.78672280 a 2.1364508 Node 11.34924 -0.66012897 -0.48811494 e 0.6122814 Incl. 11.62935 -0.42980940 -0.37790347 P 3.12 H 19.9 G 0.1...
Bulgaria is developing a national project on space law, which is envisioned to be the country's contribution to the creation of a pan-European Space Law. The announcement was made by Founder and President of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria and former Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Solomon Passy, at th...
Simulating Tomorrow's Accelerators at Near the Speed of Light As conventional accelerators like CERN's Large Hadron Collider grow ever more vast and expensive, the best hope for the high-energy machines of the future may lie in "tabletop" accelerators like BELLA (the Berkeley Lab La...
Tropical Storm Cherono (18S) is forecast to make landfall in Port Mathurin (19.7 S, 63.4 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 72 hours probability for TS is 50% in about 48 hours
Research presented in Greece at the July Atlantis 2005 conference and published in the August Geology points to a sunken island off the Strait of Gibraltar as the site of ancient Atlantis.
Researcher Marc-Andre Gutscher combines new information on the bathymetry of Spartel Bank, in the...
Xenos river was part of stone-age route New finds at the pre-Neolithic site of 'Rhoudias', situated in the south foothills of the Troodos Mountains in the Paphos district next to the Xenos river indicate the site was repeatedly visited by groups of hunter-gatherers, the Antiquities Department sa...
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