A tense situation was created in some areas in the Gampaha and Kurunegala districts last night following a mysterious noise similar to an explosion. However later it was revealed that the noise and the light could be from a falling meteorite of some magnitude. [url=http://www.colombopage.com/a...
Place of Origin aims to draw attention to the historic quarry at Kemnay in Aberdeenshire. The project involves the construction of a new vantage point at the Southern rim of the Quarry and the creation of a community woodland leading towards the hill, passing through landscape features which revea...
The 690 m - 1.5 km sized near Earth Apollo asteroid 2005 AD13 (NEO, PHA) is predicted to make a flyby of the Earth on June 18th, 09:36 UT. The magnitude 15.5 asteroid should pass about 33.3 lunar distances away (0.08549 AU) towards the constellation Ursa Major. Relative Velocity: 23.73 km/s [url=htt...
'Skull exhibition see's Human head carved from meteorite' You wait ages for an artistic skull to appear and before you know it they are popping up all over the place. Richard Cree went along to meet Andreas Zadora, on the eve of his new London show. [url=http://www.nowpublic.com/skull_exhibition...
The Karymsky Volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia released a faint plume on November 29, 2006. The Terra satellite took this picture as the plume blew eastward over the ocean. East of the plume, brighter white clouds dotted the sky.
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Experts have been called in to determine whether two mountains in the Highlands can be called Munros.
Ordnance Survey maps put both Beinn Dearg, north of Glen Torridon, and Foinaven, near Rhiconich, Sutherland, at a height of 914 metres.
But for a mountain to achieve Munro status, the peaks hav...
Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft's Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. Chief executive Steve Jobs said Apple "dream big" and wanted to expand the 4.9% market share Safari enjoys. Mr Jobs was speaking at a conference of...
Unearthed ruins on Greek island could be palace of warrior king Ajax
On a deserted green hill above the Aegean Sea, archaeologists have unearthed what may be the palace of Ajax, one of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology.
From a rocky outcrop among the tranquil ruins, it is easy to imagine...
Scientists at the University of Tokyo, University of Kyoto, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and the University of Hawaii teamed up to obtain the deepest infrared image of an almost empty field in the sky near the celestial pole.
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Russian space capsule gets 72,000 euros at auction A Russian space capsule -- used -- sold for 72,000 euros (96,000 dollars) at a Paris auction Saturday. The spheroid "Photon" class capsule -- measuring 2.7 metres high with a diameter of 1.6 metres ) -- was acquired by a private French bu...
A new page is being turned in the history of the ESA Redu ground station with the award today of a contract for maintenance and operations services to Redu Space Services S.A. The contract also foresees the possibility for Redu Space Services to provide new commercial services from the ESA Redu stat...
An observatory being refurbished near Cloudcroft is getting a new mission providing telescope time for budding astronomers around the world. The Tzec Maun Observatory in the Lincoln National Forest was built by the Air Force in 1962 to track Soviet space activity during the Cold War. Its 48-inch d...
Title: Unparticle Physics Author: Howard Georgi I discuss some simple aspects of the low-energy physics of a nontrivial scale invariant sector of an effective field theory - physics that cannot be described in terms of particles. I argue that it is important to take seriously the possibility that...
SpaceX Press release: DemoFlight 2 Launch Update During our final check-outs prior to static fire, we uncovered an anomaly with the thrust vector control (TVC) pitch actuator on the second stage that will result in launch being pushed to February. Since this is not used during the static fire, we ha...
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