A Proton K-DM2 rocket will launch three spacecraft, M6, M7, M8, for the Glonass satellite navigation constellation, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on December 25th. -- Edited by Blobrana at 20:28, 2006-11-30
A proposed impact crater.
The location and details have, as yet, not been disclosed.
Unfortunately, it looks like it is of volcanic origin.
-- Edited by Blobrana at 02:04, 2006-08-26
When a series of monstrous explosions shook inland Waverley one July afternoon, farmer Jim Ross thought a plane had crashed.
The big bangs happened on July 7, 1999, just after 4pm, and a report on the unusual astral event was issued last month by Jennie McCormick of Auckland’s Stardome Observator...
Dec ?? - Hai Yang 1B (No. 2) CZ-2C Launch (China)
Dec ?? - Feng Yun 2-D CZ-3A Launch (China)
Dec 01 - Asteroid 3261 Tvardovskij Occults HIP 62915 (6.5 Magnitude Star)
Dec 01 - [url=http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-b...
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Peru has launched its first space probe entirely designed and built by Peruvian scientists.
The Paulet I, named after Peruvian aviation pioneer Pedro Paulet, was launched on Tuesday at 3.30 p.m. from the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) base in Punta Lobos, Pucusana, 50 km south of Peru's capital Lima.
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Near the village of Sorgono, in Sardinia (Italy) lies what is probably one of the lesser known megalithic wonders of the world. An impressive Neolithic site of about 200 tall stones, 30 of them aligned east-west on a double row and the rest laying on the ground. This striking concentration of stones i...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 20:15:40 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 27, 2006, in the Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea, about 130 km WNW of Arawa, at a depth of 369.9 km.
Location 5.753°S, 154.470°E
An agreement was signed today in Prague between ESO and the Czech Republic, aiming at making the latter become a full member of ESO as of 1 January 2007.
Aboriginal languages may be much older than people think, argues a linguistic anthropologist who says they originated as far back as the end of the last ice age around 13,000 years ago. This challenges existing thinking, which suggests Aboriginal languages developed from a proto-language that s...
Christie's innovative new auction, Landmarks of Science, will chart the history of science, medicine and technology from the 15th to the 20th century. The auction will feature seminal printed books, manuscripts, instruments, and artefacts, and will juxtapose key texts in the history of scienc...
At first he froze with fear as what appeared to be a burning aeroplane dropped from the sky towards a Midlothian field.
But when he realised he wasn't witnessing an aviation disaster unfold as he took his daughter to school, David Carson reached for his camera.
For the next ten minutes, the 40-yea...
A Boeing Delta 2 rocket in the 7925 vehicle configuration, will launch a NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block 2R (GPS 2R-15 -M2) military navigation satellite from SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida between 1850-1903 GMT (2:50-3:03 p.m. EDT) on September 25th.
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