An asteroid discovered by a Chinese observatory has been named after Peng Huanwu, who made important contributions to the development of China's first atomic and hydrogen bombs.
The asteroid bears the international code No. 48798. The naming has been approved by the International Astronom...
Fluvanna resident Brenda Barden doesn’t know for sure if whatever left a smouldering hole in her backyard was a meteorite from outer space.
It seems to be a pretty good guess, though.
"We think that’s what it was, or what was left of a falling star" - Ms. Barden, a resident of Old Fluvanna...
There are two eclipses this month, but only one, a partial lunar eclipse on the 7th, is visible from Europe. Unfortunately, the event is already half over by the time of sunset and moonrise for the UK. Mid-eclipse is at 19:51 BST with only the northern 19% of the Moon's disk covered by the umbra (the cent...
Intelsat, Ltd. announced today that its IS-802 satellite, located at 33° E, experienced a sudden and unexpected anomaly on September 22, 2006, at approximately 00:27 GMT Friday, (8:27 p.m. E.T.)
The Intelsat satellite control centre is communicating with the satellite and the satellite is...
A bright yellow ball was seen streaking across the Hamilton sky about 6.15pm yesterday, leaving a whispy black line in its wake.
Times reporter Aaron Leaman saw the object and thought it was a meteor.
He saw the object from the Waikato University tennis courts and said it was heading west towar...
Genesis Crash Site Monument Installation
On the morning of September 6, 2006 team members of the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) hosted a dedication ceremony in honour of the two-year anniversary...
A supernova more than twice as bright as others of its type has been observed, suggesting it arose from a star that managed to grow more massive than theoretically predicted. The observation suggests supernovae of this type are not "standard candles" as previously thought, which could affect thei...
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The WEU Assembly and the European Interparliamentary Space Conference (EISC) are jointly holding a conference on space, defence and European security in Kourou, French Guiana from 19-22 September 2006, at the invitation of the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency (CNES) and Ari...
Crater Lake is formed from the caldera of Mount Mazama. Part of the Cascades volcanic chain, Mount Mazama is situated between the Three Sisters volcanoes to the north and Mount Shasta to the south. The catastrophic eruption of Mount Mazama that occurred approximately 7,700 years ago destroyed the...
Super typhoon Shanshan struck Japan as a typhoon at about 12:00 GMT on 17 September.
Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centre suggest that the point of landfall was near 34.0 N, 130.6 E. Shanshan brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around 120 km/h...
Enthusiastic stone circle hunters witnessed a rare spectacle this summer as reservoir water levels fell in the drought. A rarely seen stone circle emerged from the depths of Walshaw Dean Reservoir, just north of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire (England) this summer. It is only the second recorded s...
It has been thought that the first gold coins were minted by the Lydian king Croesus in about 560 BC, and the first silver coins minted by king Pheidon of Argos in about 700 BC.
However, an exciting archaeological find could mark a "new page in history".
According to Vladimir Ploskikh th...
Title: Eclipsing binaries in the open cluster NGC 2243 - I. Photometry
Authors: J. Kaluzny, W. Krzeminski, I.B. Thompson, G. Stachowski
We obtained BV time series photometry for 12 variable stars from the field of the old open cluster NGC 2243. The sample includes 3 newly ide...
Defying what a local science professor calls "astronomical odds," what appears to be a pea-sized meteorite was found this summer on the green at the 14th hole at the Aurora Country Club, Illinois, US.
"The odds of anybody fin...
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