In 1950 Professor W.S. Strain discovered that a stony meteorite had fallen east of El Paso, Texas. The GPS coordinates are approximately N 31.78285, W-106.23390. It weighed 275.8 grams, and is now in the Department of Geology at the University of Texas in El Paso. The International Meteoritical So...
Moscow theatre teaches viewers Astronomy of Love The musical comedy "Astronomy of Love" has been premiered at one of Moscow's theatres. The performance is based on the play "The Unnamed Star" which was written by the Romanian writer Mikhail Sebastian in the 1920s. The show w...
First Molecular Anion Identified In Space
Once thought too fragile to exist in the severe environment of outer space, molecular anions may actually be ubiquitous there. For the first time, researchers have observed in astronomical clouds large amounts of a negatively charged molecul...
A large mushroom cloud was formed by an explosion at a gas pipeline beside the city of St Petersburg in north-west Russia. "This will not affect supplies to Russian or foreign consumers of Russian natural gas in any way" - Sergei Gustov, head of Gazprom's local subsidiary Peterbugg...
Seventh IAA International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions September 12-14, 2007 Pasadena, California USA The 7th Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference is devoted to programs of missions that cost less than $0.5B US, including launch, operations, science data analysis, and all re...
Earth at Aphelion on July 7 On July 7 at 12 noon, the Earth is at its furthest point from the Sun (aphelion), on its year-long slightly elliptical orbit around the Sun. The distance at that time is 152,097,040 km, which is about 5 million km further away than its closest point in early January. Because of...
A representative from Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, an amateur rocket club, a spaceport development corporation and land owners are hoping to put some space between themselves after a recent launch that had some club members venturing onto private property seeking downed craft.
After t...
The Egyptian government plans to launch three new satellites by the end of 2006 or early 2007.
Ayman Desouki, head of Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing said the first satellite, named as Egyptsat 1, will be launched from Kazakhstan.
Egyptsat 1 will carry two remote sensing devic...
Student creates crease-resistant shirt An undergraduate student from Leeds University has developed a revolutionary new fabric that is crease- and stain-resistant. Read more
When night falls over the empty desert, retiree Jim Algots climbs the wooden steps to his observatory, dims the lights and rolls back the roof to reveal an ink-black sky. Until dawn he can train his telescope on a rich field of stars, knowing that despite living in one of the most remote spots in the Unit...
Movie Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Marco Khanlian, Cliff Curtis and Timothy Barlow. Release Date: March 7, 2008 Epic tale that centres on three stages in the development of primitive man, as seen through a 21-year-old hunter from a primitive tribe who must hunt mammoth to survive. [spo...
Shamania - The Festival: nr Pendle, Lancashire - Fri 27 July - Mon 30 July Shamania is a spiritually refreshing and exhilarating, new way to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival of Lugnasadh, known latterly as Lammas. A time and place in which to re-connect ourselves to the Earth and Cosmos; whils...
Title: Virgo Early-Type Dwarfs in ALFALFA Authors: Rebecca A. Koopmann Early-type dwarf galaxies dominate cluster populations, but their formation and evolutionary histories are poorly understood. The ALFALFA (Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA) survey has completed observations of the Virgo Clust...
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