A Canadian company has announced a plan to put 78 small satellites in orbit to carry the internet. Called the "CommStellation", the system would be deployed from 2014-2015. It would require six rockets to take the platforms to an altitude of 1,000km. The network will act as backhaul, lin...
Title: Intrinsic Dirac Behaviour of Scalar Curvature in a Complex Weyl-Cartan Geometry Authors: J. E. Rankin The "spin-up" and "spin-down" projections of the second order, chiral form of Dirac Theory are shown to fit a superposition of forms predicted in an earlier classi...
Shooting star spotted over Chicagoland An unusually bright shooting star shot across the sky Wednesday night, prompting sighting reports from the Chicago area to Indiana, a local astronomer said. A green-tinted burst was reported by amateur astronomers in LaPorte, Ind., just after 8 p.m.., sai...
The first-ever NASA/JPL iPhone application, Space Images, has reached 500,000 downloads, just as JPL prepares to release its newest version of the free app. Space Images features breathtaking views of Earth, the solar system and the universe beyond.Soon after its release in January 2010, Space...
Huge craters in road from Al Badia to DFC stun motoristsMotorists on Al Badia Road were this morning shocked to see a metre-long crater, right in the centre of the fast lane leading to Dubai Festival City. Just a metre away from the first crater and on the second fast lane was an evident mark to indicate t...
Title: The daylight fireball of January 20, 1988 Authors: Aikman, G. C. L., Younger, P. F., & Weichert, D. H. This exploding fireball (bolide) displayed a number of remarkable (although not unique) phenomena. Estimates of the end height (23km) and end velocity (2 to 5 km sec^-1) of the luminous...
The 160 - 360 metre wide asteroid 2007 CA27 will make a close pass (53.9 lunar distances, 0.1384 AU), travelling at 15.77 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th January, 2011 @ 00:10 UT ±03:44. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
A 1,250-year-old temple has been saved from collapse using "granite stitching" in southern India. The Kailasanathar Temple in the town of Uthiramerur is more than 1,250 years old, according to studies of its inscriptions. Uthiramerur town, which is one of the oldest settlements in th...
Recently discovered plant material from deep beneath Pine Island might change the way scientists think about Florida's ancient geography. Tests at the University of Florida show that a rock sample from an injection well contained pollen and spores from the oldest land plants ever found in Florid...
In its effort to boost enrolment and help address its pending revenue crunch, the Elmbrook School District is looking to the stars. Or, more accurately, to Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. A study team has urged the School Board to open a charter school named after the mathematician, physicist...
This month's installment of the Kentucky SkyTalk series welcomes members of the general public to the University of Kentucky MacAdam Student Observatory for a night of learning and stargazing with Mike Cavagnero, chair of the UK College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy. C...
Title: The X-ray luminous galaxy cluster XMMU J1007.4+1237 at z=1.56 - The dawn of starburst activity in cluster cores Authors: Rene Fassbender, Alessandro Nastasi, Hans Böhringer, Robert Suhada, Joana S. Santos, Piero Rosati, Daniele Pierini, Martin Mühlegger, Hernan Quintana, Axel D. Schw...
A freeze-dried beef pot roast, the business card of the first man to walk on the moon, and a Playboy calendar that rode to space in 1969 are among a mishmash of old space items on US auction this week. The collection is being offered for sale online by a Massachusetts-based company, RR Auctions. The eBay...
The search is on for fragments of a meteorite which blazed across Irish skies yesterday evening. The meteor - described as 'huge' by Astronomy Ireland - is known as a fireball. Astronomy Ireland says it is likely to be a piece of a comet or asteroid that passed near Earth's orbit sometime in the past. It...
The QBX2 satellite that was launched on the 8th December, 2010, from the Launch Complex 40 at the Air Force Station at Cape Canaveral, with SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 11th January, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ±-- hours. TLE Data pre>QBX2 1 37245U 1...
