A Devon mine that is believed to be one of the world's largest sources of tungsten and tin is to be reopened after more than 60 years. Australian-based Wolf Minerals plans to start mining reserves at Hemerdon mine, Plympton to meet UK demand and exports. The company said global demand for tin and tungs...
Title: Super-Massive Neutron Stars Authors: Paulo C. C. Freire We present here the results of Arecibo timing of PSR B1516+02B, a 7.95-ms pulsar in a binary system with a ~0.17 solar mass companion and an orbital period of 6.85 days located in the globular cluster M5. The eccentricity of the orbit (e =...
Title: Measuring the period of the delta Scuti variable U1425-01208594 in Cassiopeia Authors: Jeremy Shears, David Boyd, Steve Brady, Ian Miller, Roger Pickard The variability of U1425-01208594 was recently discovered by Schmidtobreick et al, who suggested that it is a member of the delta Scut...
A new magnitude 18.2 comet was discovered on November 29, 2007 by the LINEAR monitoring telescope, and confirmed by observers over the following days. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet C/2007 W3 (LINEAR) indicate a perihelion passage on June 02, 2008 at a distance of 1,7 AU from the Sun....
A Russian Kosmos-3M liquid-fuelled two-stage rocket will launch the SAR-Lupe 3 spacecraft from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, into Earth orbit on November 1st. The SAR-Lupe 3 satellite is the third in a series of five German radar reconnaissance satellites. The Kosmos-3M booster has been...
As of today you can find some full versions in the download section of the Amiga Future homepage for free download.
Amiga Future has many licences for full versions.
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The Indian Space Research Organisations ambitious plan to send the spacecraft Chandrayaan-I to the moon has gathered speed with the installation of a huge dish antenna at Byalalu village, 40 km from Bangalore. The dish is 32 metres in diameter and weighs 60 tonnes. [url=http://www.hindu.com/20...
Xeric Design, Ltd. has announced the immediate availability of EarthDesk 4.1, its real-time dynamic desktop map, for MS Windows. EarthDesk replaces your static wallpaper with a photo-realistic image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination as well as real-time global cloud...
HILLS AND VALLEYS IN EARTH'S LARGEST SALT 'FLAT' Using a new twist on standard Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, a team of scientists has found that Earths largest salt flat is rougher than expected, according to a new report led by Adrian Borsa of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at U...
The Celtic new year begins on the 1st. The holiday was called Samhain (Sah-ween). The date marked the beginning of winter. The Celts believed that at the time of Samhain, more so than any other time of the year, the ghosts of the dead were able to mingle with the living, because at Samhain the souls of th...
A strong magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred at 19:00:19 (UTC) on Thursday, November 29, 2007, in the Martinique region, Windward islands, 23 km NNW from Le Morne-Rouge, Saint-Pierre, Martinique, at a depth of 143.1 km. Location 14.951°N, 61.241°W
A gang has been arrested in Eastern Europe trying to sell enriched uranium, triggering fears that it was going to be used in a radiological dirty bomb by terrorists. Two Hungarians and a Ukrainian man were arrested as they tried to sell the uranium, during raids in eastern Slovakia and Hungary last ni...
Title: On the Diversity of the Taurus Transitional Disks: UX Tau A & Lk Ca 15 Authors: C. Espaillat, N. Calvet, P. D'Alessio, J. Hernandez, C. Qi, L. Hartmann, E. Furlan, D. M. Watson The recently recognized class of "transitional disk" systems consists of young stars with optically...
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