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Meteorite Tracking An international team of scientists has begun installing meteorite-tracking cameras on the Nullarbor, in south-eastern Western Australia, in an attempt to learn more about the universe. For the past two years the team has successfully recorded material falling from...

New research suggests that an unusual Greek coin, minted around 120 BC, may have marked a rare astronomical event - when Jupiter was occulted by the Moon. It happened on January 17, 121 BC and was visible in Antioch, the capital of the Seleucid Empire. The coin had a portrait of Antiochos VIII, the king...

2nd International Conference on Particle Physics Dogus University, stanbul, Turkey 20 - 25 June 2011 This is the second International Conference on Particle Physics organised in memory of Engin Ark and her Colleagues Senel Boydag, skender Hikmet, Mustafa Fidan, Berkol Dogan and Engin Abat, wh...

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UNESCO-led team begins Tilourakot excavation[url=http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=UNESCO-led+team+begins...

Stardust is a 2007 fantasy film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Matthew Vaughn. The film is based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name, illustrated by Charles Vess, originally published by Avon Books. Read more [v...

Title: Late-Type Near-Contact Eclipsing Binary [HH97] FS Aur-79 Authors: S. J. Austin, J. W. Robertson, C. Tycner, T. Campbell, R. K. Honeycutt The secondary photometric standard star #79 for the FS Aur field (Henden & Honeycutt 1997) designated as [HH97] FS Aur-79 (GSC 1874 399) is a short pe...

Title: Discovery of a close substellar companion to the hot subdwarf star HD 149382 - The decisive influence of substellar objects on late stellar evolution Authors: S. Geier, H. Edelmann, U. Heber, L. Morales-Rueda Substellar objects, like planets and brown dwarfs orbiting stars, are by-produ...

KV Draconis is in outburst. Date: 22nd January, 2011. Magnitude range: 11.8 - 17.1 V Period: ? Satelite period: 0.05876 days Type: UGSU Position(2000): : RA=14 50 38.31, Dec=+64°03'28.6"

Orbital elements: 2011 BF10 Earth MOID = 0.0233 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 349.84915 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61360841 Peri. 35.36020 -0.92965221 -0.35371386 a 1.3715401 Node 123.60469 +0.30308106 -0.89331909 e 0.2883336 Incl. 7.11199 +0.20949614 -0.27724990 P 1.61 H 27.3 G 0.15 U 9 MP...

Orbital elements: 2011 AM24 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0361 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 165.19887 (2000.0) P Q n 0.80219507 Peri. 199.44799 +0.83018640 +0.54163867 a 1.1471390 Node 127.04774 -0.48708291 +0.81988480 e 0.1530748 Incl. 9.51802 -0.27118404 +0.18551675 P 1.23 H 20.5 G 0.1...

Mexico enters the space race Mexican politicians approved the creation of a space agency that will seek to bolster research and raise Mexico's scientific profile. The lower house of Mexicos Congress voted to support the agency, which was endorsed by the Senate in 2008. [url=http://www.walesonl...

A team of scientists from several organisations will begin tests this spring on a space-based power generation technology using satellites, it was learned Saturday. The technology would start by generating electricity from sunlight in space, convert the power into microwaves and then send it t...

Aunque después hubo quien fue a buscar restos del meteorito, no se encontraron. Se había desintegrado totalmente a unos 16 kilómetros de altura, aunque ya venía perdiendo masa desde que entró en la atmósfera terrestre, como ha descubierto el investigador. Gracias a nuevas tecnologías informáti...