Finnair's Oulu-Helsinki aircrew witnessed a strange light phenomenon of the eastern sky. The light phenomenon was spotted in the eastern sky, a little north of Oulu, on Tuesday morning. Two balls of light were seen for about five minutes until they vanished. The light phenomenon sighted by the Fi...
Three undergraduate students, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, have discovered an extrasolar planet. The extraordinary find, which turned up during their research project, is about five times as massive as Jupiter. This is also the first planet discovered orbiting a fast-rotating h...
Canada is quietly putting together a proposal to build NASA an all-Canadian moon rover - a vehicle with a pressurised air cabin that astronauts could use without wearing bulky helmets and air tanks. One space industry executive says this could be Canada's next big area of expertise after the Canada...
International conference The Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Saint Petersburg Scientific Center of RAS, the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS invite you to participate in the International scientific conference 'Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2009' whi...
A Russian Kosmos 3M rocket with the German SAR-Lupe 5 radar reconnaissance spacecraft will launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, at 04:40 GMT July 22, 2008.
The technical design of the European Research Icebreaker - Aurora Borealis (Berlin) The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association and the engineering company Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany (formerly Schiffko, GmbH) today presented the technical desig...
The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know. But new research suggests that in the time of the Roman Empire, they were smaller than today. And 7,000 years ago they probably weren't around at all. A group of climatologists have come up with a controversial new theory on how the Alps...
A recent ESA campaign has demonstrated how a technique using lasers could be employed to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The campaign supports one of the main objectives of the candidate Earth Explorer A-SCOPE mission. A-SCOPE (Advanced Space Carbon and climate Observation of Planet...
Orbital elements: 2008 XS Earth MOID = 0.0170 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 4.68924 (2000.0) P Q n 0.68182500 Peri. 169.40105 +0.49202554 -0.86884609 a 1.2784609 Node 251.10583 +0.79443431 +0.47390169 e 0.2162215 Incl. 3.32838 +0.35606880 +0.14326080 P 1.45 H 27.0 G 0.15 U 7 [url...
An amateur astronomer says he was "transfixed" on Monday by what he describes as the most impressive event he has ever witnessed in the night sky. Dr David Billington was looking through a telescope from his home, The Watch House at Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, when he saw a bright meteor wi...
Otter Creek Park to close Expansive Otter Creek Park with its sheer rock cliffs, cascading waterfalls and sweeping views of the Ohio River will close Jan. 2. A victim of the recession, the park served as a wooded escape for central Kentucky residents since the 1930s. The city of Louisville owns the 2,...
A satellite resembling a shiny spinning drum and orbiting 21,156 miles above Earth celebrated its 41st birthday in November, astounding engineers and scientists, some of them the children of those who built it. For years, the satellite has served as an emergency communications link for rescue op...
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