UCL scientists are enabling the Queen and 1,000 sixth formers to take a three-dimensional virtual flight over the surface of Mars on 24 October 2006.
The UCL scientists and engineers have teamed up with the Open University and Imperial College London to present their ‘Rough Guide to Mars’ exhibi...
Title: Discovery of hybrid gamma Dor and delta Sct pulsations in BD+18 4914 through MOST spacebased photometry
Authors: J.F. Rowe, J.M. Matthews, C. Cameron, D.A. Bohlender, H. King, R. Kuschnig, D.B. Guenther, A.F.J. Moffat, S.M. Rucinski, D. Sasselov, G.A.H. Walker, W.W. W...
Observers have misidentified the semiregular variable T CMa over many years due to the use of charts with insufficient detail. A detailed chart is provided to allow for correct identification and it is also suggested T CMa may be non-variable and should be dropped from observing lists.
T CMa is lo...
Mars Spacecraft During Solar Conjunction.
Every day for the past decade, the U.S. has had a presence at Mars, using spacecraft to understand this extreme world and its potential as a past or present habitat for life.
During that time, all spacecraft have become virtually incommunic...
On Friday, Oct. 27, David Carlson, Director of the International Polar Year Program Office, British Antarctic Survey of Cambridge, UK, will present an introduction to the International Polar Year 2007-2008. The presentation is part of the Physics Colloquium Series at Montana Sate University,...
Hurricane Paul strengthened as it swept across the Pacific Ocean on Monday toward the beach resort of Cabo San Lucas on Mexico's Baja California peninsula and farming areas on the mainland.
The US National Hurricane Centre said the category 2 hurricane was gaining force. It could become a powerf...
There are many meteor showers this month...
Orionids produce rates of 5-15/hour with occasional surges in activity that may reach 25 or even 50/hour. The shower's radiant near Betelgeuse is best-placed just before morning twilight begins. Its radiant is R.A. 6hr 20m Dec +16 degrees, wh...
China is to launch its second geosynchronous meteorological satellite on a "Long March 3" launch vehicle, from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre at the end of this year.
The new geosynchronous meteorological satellite, Fengyun-2E (FY-2E), has passed through the examination and approval of Ch...
Europe's most ancient manuscript is more legible now than at any time since it was burned and buried more than 2,300 years ago, thanks to the work of two Brigham Young University researchers. In April, Roger T. Macfarlane and Gene A. Ware visited Greece for two weeks of intense efforts to recover hidd...
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory and Purdue University have shed light on one of microbiology's most fascinating mysteries-why some bacteria are naturally magnetic. Their description of how being magnetic "helps" the bacteria is reported in the August 2006 issue of the Biophysical...
A fire that destroyed a cottage near Bonn and injured a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor and witnesses saw an arc of blazing light in the sky, German police said today.
Burkhard Rick, a spokesman for the police in Siegburg east of Bonn, said the fire gutted the cottage and badly burned t...
Mark your calendars for The Art of Astronomy, a three-day public event celebrating the collaboration of astronomy and art in Pasadena, California. The event will feature a spectacular slide show of cosmic images, lectures from world-renowned space artists, and a public unveiling of a magnifice...
A Delta I Stage 3 Rocket Body that was launched in july 14, 1978, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station LC 17, for the ESA-Geos 2 mission, is predicted to re-enter the earths atmosphere on 19 October 2006 @ 13:10 UTC ± 16 hours.
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