Title: Eclipse mapping of RW Tri in the low luminosity state Authors: A.V.Halevin, A.A.Henden We analysed the eclipse light curve of the nova-like star RW Tri in its low luminosity state. During approximately 150 days, RW Tri was about one magnitude fainter than in its usual state. Our eclipse map s...
EADS Astrium Ltd. yesterday choose Arianespace to launch the UK Ministry of Defence's third Skynet 5 military communications satellite, Skynet 5C.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO of Arianespace announced the signature of a launch contract with EADS Astrium Ltd for the Skynet 5C satellite.
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NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet. The mineral, a manganese silicide named Brownleeite, was discovered within an interplanetary dust particle, or IDP, that appears to have originated from c...
What would you do if a meteor landed on your family's farm? Why, you'd write a book about it and host a Meteor Festival, that's what you'd do! Famed children's author and illustrator Patricia Polacco, hosts this annual event, which include home tours and several book signing opportunities. [url=ht...
Title: Idling Magnetic White Dwarf in the Synchronizing Polar BY Cam. The Noah-2 Project Authors: Ivan L. Andronov, Kirill A. Antoniuk, Vitalii V. Breus, Lidia L. Chinarova, Won Young Han, Young Beom Jeon, Yonggi Kim, Sergey V. Kolesnikov, Joon Young Oh, Elena P. Pavlenko, Nikolay M. Shak...
An award-winning science company has partnered up with leading scientists to bring the mysteries of gravity to life for secondary schools. Science made simple, with support from Cardiff University, has gained funding from the Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) to develop an interac...
NASA tests robotic vehicles in Moses Lake dunes NASA has been at the dunes for two weeks testing new robotic vehicles that have been developed at laboratories across the country. The equipment is intended to be used in decades to come when the space agency returns to the moon and eventually puts human...
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Flying saucers may soon be more fact than mere science fiction. University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design reminiscent of the spaceships seen in countless Hollywood fi...
The world's richest source of platinum and related metals is an enigmatic geological structure in South Africa known as the Bushveld Complex. This complex of ancient magmas is known to have formed some two billion years ago, but the source of its metallic riches has been a matter of scientific dispu...
Title: Twenty-three new ultra-cool subdwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Authors: Sebastien Lepine, Ralf-Dieter Scholz (Version v2) A search of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic database has turned up 23 new ultra-cool subdwarfs, low-mass metal-poor stars of spectral...