Marsupial carnivores 'as diverse as other mammals once' They are an extraordinary and now rare group of animals but Earth has had some formidable marsupial carnivores. These pouched killers have included lions, wolves, and even sabretooths. Today, the only large marsupial carnivore left in exi...
Express map delivery from space Meeting the environmental needs of an ever-expanding Europe requires consistent and regularly updated information on its land cover and use. As part of ESA's GlobCorine project, a pan-European land cover and use map for 2009 is now available online. The map, based...
Today, November 23, BEXUS 11 was successfully launched at 08:19 UTC. The BEXUS programme allows students from universities and higher education colleges across Europe to carry out scientific and technological experiments on research balloons. Each year, two balloons are launched, carrying u...
Super crazy visual just now in the sky. I was just walking the dog 15 minutes ago (about 12:10 am) and I glanced up at the sky to see a HUGE green ball of fire drop straight down from the sky over LA. Read more
A ULA is scheduled to launch a Delta IV Heavy rocket with the classified NROL-32 satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, from Cape Canaveral, at 23:10 GMT, 18th November, 2010.
UK defence technology firm Qinetiq has won a contract to provide engineering services for US Space Agency Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The deal is for at least five years, with options for a further three, and is worth up to $2bn (£1.25bn). [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11...
'Huge ball of fire' actually meteor shower They feared it was a plane crash but it turned out to be a meteor shower lighting up the night sky. Early Thursday evening, emergency crews rushed to Nova Scotia's South Shore after getting reports that a "huge ball of fire" had fallen from the sky n...
Ancient Chinese Calendar A lunar calendar uses the time that it takes the Moon to go round the Earth as one month. A lunar year is about 11 days shorter than a solar year. The ancient Chinese calendar is a solar-lunar calendar. The months are set according to the cycles of the Moon, and the years are set ac...
Radio telescope launch a milestone in New Zealand's scientific and educational history Researchers will be able to probe the secrets of deep space when AUT University's radio telescope launches on Wednesday October 8. Situated in a radio-quiet valley near Warkworth, north of Auckland, the $1 mi...
Orbital elements: 2010 WL Earth MOID = 0.1923 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 332.87247 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27872648 Peri. 129.99354 +0.74533118 -0.54050052 a 2.3210468 Node 266.27667 +0.42721766 +0.83665060 e 0.5384419 Incl. 23.02508 +0.51182664 +0.08874094 P 3.54 H 19.2 G 0.15 U 8 [...
Title: On The Maximum Mass of Stellar Black Holes Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Tomasz Bulik, Chris L. Fryer, Ashley Ruiter, Jorick S. Vink, Jarrod R. Hurley We present the spectrum of compact object masses: neutron stars and black holes that originate from single stars in different environmen...
Meteor lights up the sky An impressive fireball in the sky could be seen over Marietta, Georgia, on November 19, 2010 at about 5.15 PM. Two airplanes flew towards the object that looked like a meteorite descending from west to east on a low trajectory. [url=http://www.global-adventures.us/2010/...
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