The Democrat political machine in Oregon really plays hardball when it comes to political payback. In retribution for my running against liberal socialist Peter Defazio in the Oregon District 4 congressional election, DeFazio supporters at Democrat stronghold Oregon State University are try...
Antares FullDome Productions presents the world premiere of the fulldome show "Moles" at the UK Fulldome Film Festival in Birmingham the 13th of March! The UK Fulldome Film Festival is about fulldome as an artistic medium, highlighting the creative and experimental applications of...
Debate continues to rage over the origin of the strange orange UFOs spotted floating back and forth above Maryborough (Queensland). From rubbish bag lanterns to extraterrestrial aircrafts to plasma balls, theories have been flying thick and fast since the Chronicle went to print with a story abo...
Christie Brinkley is convinced she once saw a UFO when she was living in Crete. The model and actress insists she has been a believer there's life on other planets ever since. Brinkley recalls seeing four bright lights in the sky as she was shopping one day. [url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news....
Meteorite hits building in the Netherlands On Friday march 4th a small meteorite hits through the ceiling of a office building at the Kryptonstreet in Ede, The Netherlands. 30 people working at time of impact in the building, no one was hurt...
Title: Suzaku observations of the HMXB 1A 1118-61 Authors: Slawomir Suchy, Katja Pottschmidt, Richard E. Rothschild, Joern Wilms, Felix Fuerst, Laura Barragan, Isabel Caballero, Victoria Grinberg, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Victor Doroshenko, Andrea Santangelo, Ruediger Staubert, Yukikatsu Ter...
Title: Refining Parameters of the XO-5 Planetary System with High-Precision Transit Photometry Authors: G.Maciejewski, M.Seeliger, Ch.Adam, St.Raetz, R.Neuhaeuser Studies of transiting extrasolar planets offer an unique opportunity to get to know the internal structure of those worlds....
Title: An X-ray survey of low-mass stars in Trumpler 16 with Chandra Authors: J.F. Albacete-Colombo, F. Damiani, G. Micela, S. Sciortino, F.R. Harnden Jr We identify and characterise low-mass stars in the ~3 Myr old Trumpler 16 (Tr16) region by means of a deep Chandra X-ray observation, and study t...
GPS glitch hit some military systems in January The Air Force says a software glitch in its GPS network in January temporarily left some defence systems unable to lock onto locator signals from satellites, but the problem has since been fixed. The Air Force Global Positioning Wing said Friday one pr...
Orbital elements: 2011 EL17 Earth MOID = 0.0105 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 7.55266 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52739877 Peri. 302.33903 -0.39314561 -0.91941507 a 1.5172016 Node 170.79282 +0.86431209 -0.37346905 e 0.4099779 Incl. 3.80030 +0.31368956 -0.12327533 P 1.87 H 26.7 G 0.15 U 6 MPE...
The 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference will be held March 7-11, 2011, at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Centre, located at 1601 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, Texas, just north of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). The abstract submission...
A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. In "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret," journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell aide...
The Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork has scooped a second prestigious award for its stunning Cosmos at the Castle digital exhibition. The observatory scooped the Best Digital Animation Award at the 2008 Institute of Designers in Ireland (IDI) awards ceremony, which celebrates the latest in...
Scientist Narlikar named for Maharashtra state award Eminent space scientist and astronomer Jayant Narlikar has been named as the recipient of the prestigious Maharashtra Bhushan 2010, an official said Monday. The award, which consists of Rs.500,000 cash and a citation, is in recognition for N...
People living in southern Germany during Roman times may have witnessed a comet impact 5,000 times more destructive than the Hiroshima atom bomb.
A strewnfield of craters around Lake Chiemsee, in south-east Bavaria, may have been caused by fragments of a huge comet that broke up in the...
