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There is a story going around the net about Kepler $100k wris****chs. Ulysse Nardin's Tellurium J. Kepler watch that A revolutionary timepiece that rotates the Earth in its true geographical shape seen from above the North Pole. Only 99 of the watches were made and they are priced at more than $100,0...

Title: A search for solar-like oscillations in K giants in the globular cluster M4 Authors: S. Frandsen, H. Bruntt, F. Grundahl, G. Kopacki, H. Kjeldsen, T. Arentoft, D. Stello, T. R. Bedding, A. P. Jacob, R. L. Gilliland, P. D. Edmonds, E. Michel, J. Matthiesen To expand the range in the colour-magn...

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The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) project celebrates the inauguration of its outstanding 12-m telescope, located on the 5100m high Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The official inauguration of the APEX telescope will start in San Pedro de Atacama on Septem...

en un vaje de para observacion captamos desde el auto este meteorito por la sabana de Bogotá ANIC.asociacion de niños indagdores del cosmos

NASA to Hold Media Teleconference on Bizarre Star Astronomers are scheduled to announce new findings about a star unlike any seen before at a media teleconference Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 17:00 GMT (1 p.m. EDT). The findings are from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsi...

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Theorists cant help it: When asked to explain something, they reach for a piece of chalk. The language of math and physics seems to require a writing implement and a large vertical surface. For two centuries, scientists have turned to blackboards to grapple their thoughts into coherent equations a...

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I heard it last night, thought nothing of it. Till I went into my backyard to gaze at its neglect. When I see this f***** crater, and it was indeed f*****. I'm sure it was condoling with the rock. The crater is 11.6 inches deep and about 5 feet wide. 28.8 cm and 1.8 meters for the Brits. [url=http://forums....

Meteorite strike off coast of Georgia 14 Aug 07 I happened to see this while watching the GOES loop. Read more

Hughes Signs Contract with Arianespace to Launch SPACEWAY 3 Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) today announced that it has awarded a launch services contract to Arianespace for the launch of its next-generation SPACEWAY™ 3 satellite. The Ariane 5 heavy launcher will launch SPACEWAY 3 into geo...

Initial processing of the dual-satellite payload for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission has been completed with the fuelling of Galaxy 17 at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Galaxy 17 was "topped off" in the S5B integration/fuelling high-bay, which is one of three main halls tha...

On 28 August at 19:45h local time (22:45h GMT), 2002, a European Ariane-5 launcher lifted off from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. The cylinder-shaped MSG 1 satellite will provide improved global weather data for Europe as a follow-on to the Meteosat spacec...

Flossie continues to maintain an impressive satellite signature this afternoon...although eye wall convection is not as wide as it was at this time yesterday. Current satellite Dvorak intensities range from 6.0 to 6.5...and Air Force reconnaissance aircraft reported maximum flight level win...