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Link established between meteorite impact and massive volcanism 30 mln yrs ago In a new research, scientists have discovered the second example of a meteorite impact that occurred at the same time as massive volcanic activity 30 million years ago in Belarus. The first time such a coincidence was ob...

Big meteor last night![url=http://talkabout.hmbreview.com/topic.php?t=3545&c=5]Re...

Orbital elements: 2009 AO Earth MOID = 0.2676 AU Epoch 2008 Dec. 20.0 TT = JDT 2454820.5 MPC M 336.37449 (2000.0) P Q n 0.17051137 Peri. 314.30966 -0.61172802 +0.52857389 a 3.2208251 Node 267.18681 -0.44635983 -0.84488419 e 0.8752304 Incl. 36.10497 -0.65310928 +0.08234289 P 5.78 H 17.6 G 0.15 Fro...

Was it a meteor falling from space? Officials think that might be what residents saw shooting through the Alaska sky near Tok on Monday afternoon. A tremendous explosion, like a sonic boom, drew some people outside, where they watched irregular contrails scribe a path in a clear sky. [url=http://n...

"Quantum Quest," the independently financed 3-D animated film being made in conjunction with NASA, has assembled its voice cast, which will include a pair of Captain Kirks and a pair of Darth Vaders. William Shatner, Chris Pine, James Earl Jones and Hayden Christensen will topline the...

Object: GRB 090107A Swift detection Data: 7th January 2009 @ 04:48:04.30 Position(2000): RA = 20h 09m 42s, Dec. = +04d 43' 39" GRB Error: 5.0'

A rare telescope once used by the U.S. Life Saving Service to watch for shipwrecks off the Down East coast of Maine soon will have a new home as part of the maritime exhibit at Cutler's Little River Lighthouse. The rare brass telescope, presented to Tim Harrison, co-chairman of the Friends of Little Ri...

The Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Loch Ness will vie with more than 200 other spectacular places in the next phase of the global competition for the New 7 Wonders of Nature, organisers said Wednesday. The 261 nominees from 222 countries include some of the most famous mountain peaks, lakes, and oth...

Apparent Nova in M81

Rose Atoll, located approximately 130 nautical miles east-southeast of Pago Pago Harbour, American Samoa, and is the easternmost Samoan island and the only atoll in the Samoan Archipelago, will become a US National Monument. It is currently a US National Wildlife Refuge that is closed to the publ...

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Aldebaran graze Click to Play | View Details Taurus' bright star , Aldebaran , got occulted by the Moon, but grazed as observed from Littleton (South of Denver, CO) in the evening of April 18, 1999 . It "blinks" as it appears in a lunar valley and disappears behind a mountain on the Moon's edg...

Orbital elements: 2005 PY16 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0425 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 68.91266 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35486760 Peri. 193.37827 +0.99161641 +0.12310650 a 1.9758705 Node 159.42669 -0.10587289 +0.94826406 e 0.5245885 Incl. 6.41534 -0.07407986 +0.29264322 P 2.78 H 19.3 G 0.1...

Farmers of Northeast India can now interact with top scientists of the country and seek solutions to their problems related to farming, market, health and weather dynamics from their nearest Village Resource Centres (VRC). The Shillong-based North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) in a...

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