Hundreds of Carinthians were left terrified thinking they had been hit by an earthquake after a meteorite exploded over their homes early yesterday (Thurs). Locals said the meteorite exploded at about 3am with what sounded like an enormous thunder clap followed by rumbling and howling. [url=htt...
Expedition 19 is the 19th expedition to the International Space Station. This expedition launched on March 26, 2009, at 7:49am EDT aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft. Expedition 19 will be the final three crew member expedition, before the crew size is increased to six crew members with Expeditio...
Nine tattooed Maori heads yesterday began their journey from a Scottish university museum back to the land of their ancestors in New Zealand. The heads, which had been smoked to preserve them two centuries ago and revered as sacred objects by the Maoris, were returned to the care of the elders of the m...
Using the powerful one-two combo of NASAs Swift satellite and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have detected a mysterious type of cosmic explosion farther back in time than ever before. The explosion, known as a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), took place 7.4 billion years ago, more than halfway b...
Title: Electronic and magnetic structures of the postperovskite-type Fe2O3 and implications for planetary magnetic records and deep interiors Authors: Sang-Heon Shima, Amelia Bengtsonb, Dane Morganb, Wolfgang Sturhahnc, Krystle Catallia, Jiyong Zhaoc, Michael Lerchec,d and Vitali Prak...
Deep hole drilling sounds like a technique that would be used in the oil industry for extracting oil from kilometres inside the Earth. In fact, it is a means of measuring residual stress in complex engineering components, and the holes drilled are only a few centimetres 'deep'. VEQTER Ltd is a leadin...
The Expedition 18 Mission crew list has been confirmed by the Russian Federal Space Agency. The three person crew aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 capsule atop a Soyuz rocket will be comprised by U.S. Commander Mike Fincke, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force; Russian Flight Engineer Yuri Lonchakov, a colonel...
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has delivered to the customer, FSUE NPP VNIIEM, the first two suites of equipment for the KANOPUS-type satellite platforms. The equipment now in Russia has successfully completed two weeks of tests, marking a major milestone for the project and the custome...
After 44 years of research at an observatory in the foothills of the Andes, astronomers are nearing the end of a monumental undertaking: tracking the motion of 100 million stars. The Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion project, led by William van Altena, a professor emeritus of astronomy, has cat...
Marine archaeologists have just discovered evidence of a large submerged landmass southeast of Sri Lanka. They believe it could be a legendary lost island closely linked to the culture and history of Sri Lankan people. The discovery was made by a team of Dutch and Sri Lankan scientists based on sate...
Security cameras in Northern Ireland may shed some light on the cause of a massive fireball in the sky on Sunday. The shooting star was reported at about 1230 BST by people living as far apart as Donegal and Cork. David Moore chairman of Astronomy Ireland said they were fairly certain it was a rock from s...
Physicists in Austria have confirmed that four atoms can be coaxed into forming bound states in an ultracold gas - even though pairs of the same atoms do not bind together. The loosely bound quartets had been predicted just six months ago and their discovery is another reminder of just how useful ultr...
A Molnia-M launch vehicle of the medium class blasted off on Tuesday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome to put into orbit a military spacecraft of the Kosmos series, Itar-Tass learnt from chief of the public relations service of the Space Troops Alexei Zolotukhin. According to the spokesman of the Space...
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