A Long March Chang Zheng 3B rocket is scheduled to launch the Palapa D1 geostationary communications satellite from the Xichang launch centre, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on the 31st August, 2009. The 4100-kg satellite is to replace the Palapa-C2 satellite, at the 113º East orbital sl...
Photography - The First 100 Years: A Survey from the Detroit Institute of Arts CollectionExhibits: Early photos in spotlight at Detroit show Sir John Herschel made important contributions to the nascent field of photography more than a century and a half ago, inventing a chemical process that all...
A Long March Chang Zheng-3 Rocket Body that was launched on the 3rd July, 1996, from the Xichang Space Centre, China, for the APSTAR 1A mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 12th September, 2009 @ 06:42 GMT ±48 Hours TLE Data pre>CZ-3 RB 1 23944U 96039B 09252.38473478 .108...
Uncovered in Patagonia an enormous "field of craters" of unknown origin. The piu' crater field, the largest in the southern hemisphere (and, probably, of the world) was uncovered in Patagonia, in southern Argentine, in an area of 90 square kilometres called the 'Bajada del Diablo', t...
Astronomy Binoculars For astronomy, a 7x50 model may be fine for observing the moon. To see more detail on planets, you'll need a larger and more powerful objective such as an 8x56, 9x63, 12x50, 15x70, or 25-45x100 and so on. Of course, a tripod will be needed for the larger binoculars due to the size, w...
Sowa Rigpa, ancient Tibetan medicine gets official status Sowa Rigpa or commonly knows as 'Amchi' ancient system of Tibetan medicine will soon be given legal status by the central government. Since ancient times this system has been used to cure people in Sikkim, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Aru...
We report a detection by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of emission from the long GRB 080916C, which was triggered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) at 00:12:45 UT on September 16th 2008 (GCN 8245). The angle of the GBM best position (RA, Dec=121.8,-61.3) with respect to the LAT boresi...
States first radio telescope set to give amateur astronomy a boost Gujarat got its first radio telescope in Vadodara on Friday in the form of a receiver from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US. The instrument has been given under Project Jove, which helps students and ama...
Chinese scientists 'filmed UFO for 40 minutes' The UFO world is alive with speculation that China is about to reveal details of startling and detailed footage of an unidentified flying object taken during the solar eclipse on July 22. China Eclipse UFOClick to Play | View Details Scientists at the P...
Orbital elements: 2009 RD1 Earth MOID = 0.1853 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 337.75444 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23098369 Peri. 0.93792 +0.99550227 +0.09464822 a 2.6307637 Node 353.62661 -0.08715987 +0.89797841 e 0.5471353 Incl. 2.12550 -0.03712672 +0.42974003 P 4.27 H 20.7 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Extinct, giant eagle was a fearsome predator Before humans colonised New Zealand about 750 years ago, the largest inhabitants of the islands were birds unlike those anywhere else in the world. Giant, flightless birds known as moa were the main plant-eaters, feeding both on the ground and in the bra...
Title: NSVS06507557; a low-mass double-lined eclipsing binary Authors: O. Cakirli, C. Ibanoglu In this paper we present the results of a detailed spectroscopic and photometric analysis of the V=13^m.4 low-mass eclipsing binary NSVS 06507557 with an orbital period of 0.515 d. We obtained a seri...
Astronomers solve mystery of dusty foot trails crossing telescope mirrors Accustomed to peering through the dust and debris of outer space, astronomers at the Smithsonians Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona were perplexed to find fresh deposits of dust and dirt upon the fragile mirrors of...
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