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Germany's CESAR crowned king of rovers in ESAs Robotics Challenge A robot rover designed by a Bremen university team has won an ESA contest to retrieve soil samples from a lunar-style terrestrial crater. Eight student teams fielded rovers during the event, their progress monitored by an advanced...

The planet Neptune will be occulted by the first quarter moon at 18:30 UT, 6th November, 2008, in the constellation Capricornus. Observers in the northern Britain will be well placed to see the occultation of Neptune. The next UK lunar occultation of Neptune will be at 23:55 UT, 25th June, 2016. Pl...

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is introducing a new commercial product called DragonLab, a free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurised payloads to and from space. DragonLab will launch to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Dr...

Police bust multi-million dollar meteorite fraud[url=http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&n...

Magnetic shield for spacefarers Future astronauts could benefit from a magnetic "umbrella" that deflects harmful space radiation around their crew capsule, scientists say. The super-fast charged particles that stream away from the Sun pose a significant threat to any long-durati...

HD 48265b is a Jupiter sized exoplanet.

HD 143361b is a 3 Jupiter-mass exoplanet

The maritime telecommunications Marisat-FII satellite (Maritime Communications Satellite C) is starting to fail. Due to the predicted loss of control, and potential hazard to other satellites in the orbital slot, the operators have decided to decommission and eventually deorbit the satelli...

2008 UA202 Earth Impact Risk Summary Torino Scale (maximum) Palermo Scale (maximum) -5.96 Palermo Scale (cumulative) -5.05 Impact Probability (cumulative) 8.6e-04 Number of Potential Impacts 209 Vimpact 11.29 km/s Vinfinity 1.66 km/s H 29.3 Diameter 0.005 km Mass 1.4e+05 kg Energy 2.1e-03 M...

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The 635-kilogram Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) that was jettisoned from the ISS by Expedition 15 crewmember Clayton Anderson on the 23 July, 2007, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 2nd November, 2008 @ 20:40 GMT ± 24 hours. Inclination 51.6° Revolution Number 7450 Predi...

Occultation by asteroid 102 Miriam on 31 October 2008 Click to Play | View Details 102 Miriam is a quite large, very dark main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 22, 1868 and named after Miriam, the sister of Moses in the Old Testament. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10...

The last two instalments of Engineering on Purpose have focused on fundamental attributes of linear systems and the mathematics that describe them. The approach to the subject centred on simple linear time-invariant circuits (LTICs) with the implicit suggestion that the same techniques could...

There will be something missing from Oxford's Christmas lights display this year - any mention of Christmas. Traditional themes are also being dumped in favour of a 25-metre high mobile of lanterns in the shape of the solar system. Organisers say the new two-month WinterLight festival will includ...

Leo Petroglyph inscriptions show prehistoric times Visitors looking for family-friendly adventures might want to check out the Leo Petroglyph. It is an outstanding example of prehistoric Indian inscriptions. The petroglyphs are rock carvings chiselled into an outcrop of sandstone along a ra...