Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in Moscow, Russia, to investigate the psychologi...
Source of River Tay 'pinpointed' River experts claim they have finally found the source of the longest river in Scotland. The slopes of Ben Lui, near Tyndrum, have been accepted as the head of the River Tay since 1780, but no-one has determined a precise location. Surveyors at the Tay Western Catchme...
Title: PHR1315-6555: a bipolar planetary nebula in the compact Hyades-age open cluster ESO96-SC04 Authors: Quentin A. Parker, David J. Frew, Brent Miszalski, Anna V. Kovacevic, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Paul D. Dobbie, Joachim Koppen We present a detailed study of a bipolar, possible Type I planeta...
An ATLAS AGENA D rocket body that was launched on the 4th March, 1968, from the Air Force Station at Cape Canaveral, for the OGO 5 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 18th January, 2011 @ 09:14 GMT ±48 hours. TLE Data pre>ATLAS AGENA D RB 1 03145U 68014B 11017.25000...
Title: I. Flux and colour variations of the quadruply imaged quasar HE 0435--1223 Authors: D. Ricci, J. Poels, A. Elyiv, F. Finet, P. G. Sprimont, T. Anguita, V. Bozza, P. Browne, M. Burgdorf, S. Calchi Novati, M. Dominik, S. Dreizler, M. Glitrup, F. Grundahl, K. Harpsøe, F. Hessman, T. C. Hinse, A. H...
NASA officials on Thursday revised the target launch dates for space shuttle flights during the second half of 2008. The space shuttle and International Space Station programs agreed to the changes during a meeting at NASA's Johnson Space Centre to evaluate options following the STS-122 mission...
The BHALF competition is open to teams of four or more students in grades 9 to 12 from high schools and community groups throughout the United States, District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Teams will develop a flight experiment or technology demonstration and submit a proposal for considera...
This short clip depicts the preparation task and launch of a stratospheric balloon form the Xiang-He Aerological Observatory. Currently that base is not used anymore due to the heavy increase in the aerial traffic in the area.
On Sunday October 16, 2005, Dennis Asher discovered a large Franconia impact area of about 800 square feet in Arizona. The meteorite hunter recovered 112 pieces with a weight of 18,272 grams.
On Monday October 17, 2005, Jerry Baird recovered 452 pieces with a weight of 7, 265 grams and Buddy Ortego...
While it's not exactly what he planned on pursuing while studying geology in college, Mike Owens said he has been content selling rocks, fossils and gemstones from his three shops in Virginia City and Reno for nearly three decades. By 1991, Owens had opened a second location in Virginia City, the Sto...
A volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, one of 29 active volcanoes in the area, is erupting and sending ash plumes to a height of 3.7 miles, officials said. A representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said a swarm of earthquakes had accompanied t...
The ancient city of Feneos lies next to the modern-day city of the same name in Corinth prefecture, and features the ruins of fortresses and a wall. Ancient Feneos is situated on a plateau the foot of Mt. Kyllini, better known to locals as Mt. Zireia, the mythical birthplace of the god Hermes, and in ant...
For centuries, some of the greatest names in math have tried to make sense of partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting. Many mathematicians added major pieces to the puzzle, but all of them fell short of a full theory to explain partitions. Instead, their work raised more questions about...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the names Noord and Resen for two Martian craters. Noord is a 7.8-km-wide crater located at -19.42°N, -11.34°W. The feature was named in honour of a town in Aruba. Resen is a 7.4-km-wide crater located at 28.16°N, 251.06°W. The feature was na...
