The boom was reported throughout the region on the east coast, prompting a flood of calls to emergency services.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing a bright white trail in the sky with pieces breaking off.
A meteorite is believed to have burned up over Canterbury, New Zealand ,on Tuesday afternoo...
A Japanese H-2A rocket will launch Japan's third Information Gathering Satellite optical reconnaissance spacecraft from the Tanegashima launch complex, Japan, on 10th September, 2006.
The satellite will be able to resolve objects a metre or more in diameter. It's mission will probably be...
Some 30 years after buying its first satellite - Palapa A-I - which was mainly a product of foreign technology, Indonesia is finally to launch a self-made micro satellite in the second or third week of October.
The satellite has been taken to ISRO in India to be launched together with India's Cartos...
Archaeologists in Ukraine have unearthed the remains of an ancient pyramidal structure that pre-dates those in Egypt by at least 300 years. The stone foundations of the structure, which probably resembled Aztec and Mayan ziggurats in South America, were discovered near the eastern city of Lugan...
Alan Bean web site with images of his paintings.
What I especially love about his paintings is how you can really Feel what was to be up there, bouncing around. His paintings really touch me.
cecilia
(PS, for those visiting and who don't...
A R-29RM Sineva/SS-N-23 Sineva missile was successfully launched from a Project 667BDRM/Dela IV class strategic submarine of the Russian Northern Fleet.
The missile was launched from beneath arctic ice towards a target site on the Kanin Peninsula on September 9, 2006.
Roland Gangloff, former earth science curator at the museum, once uncovered a mystery when researching the Aggie Creek meteorite, the largest heavenly body fragment ever found in Alaska. When miners discovered the iron-nickel meteorit...
The Uchinoura Space Centre (USC) launches sounding rockets and scientific satellites and manages tracking and data.
An observation deck for launch experiments is open to the public.
The area of USC, 71 ha in total, are mostly hilly. Facilities for launching rockets, telemetry, tracking and...
Ancient tower reopens to public
An ancient pagoda in Shanghai will open to the public for the first time since 1949 to mark its 1,759th birthday during the coming tourism
festival, Youth Daily said today.
Longhua Pagoda, in the city's south Xuhui District, was built in AD 247 during...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 11:58:28 (UTC) on Sunday, January 15, 2006, in the Flores Sea.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 251.5 km.
Location 7.864°S, 122.604°E
Arianespace to launch two SATCOMBw military communications satellites
Astrium has chosen Arianespace to launch the two SATCOMBw military communications satellites. These two satellites are part of a satcom system that Astrium is supplying to the German Ministry of Defence.
Jean-Yves Le...
Title: 3C 216: A Powerful FRII Seyfert 1 Galaxy Authors: Brian Punsly 3C 216 has a weak accretion flow luminosity, well below the Seyfert1/QSO dividing line, weak broad emission lines (BELs) and powerful radio lobes. As a consequence of the extreme properties of 3C 216, it is the mos...
INSAT-4C, a satellite to facilitate communication, will soon be launched using the GSLV-5 and the assembly work is in progress.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair, speaking to reporters at Gummidipoondi near Chennai, India, said ISRO was also making prepar...
CHXR 73 B is one of the smallest companion objects ever seen
A research team led by a Penn State University astronomer has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover and photograph one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mas...
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