Title: THE SMERDYACHEE LAKE: A POSSIBLE IMPACT CRATER NEAR MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
Authors: D.D. Badjukov1, F. Brandstätter2, M.A. Ivanova1, A.V. Korochantsev1, G. Kurat2, C.A. Lorents1, M.A.Nazarov1, Th. Ntaflos, J. Raitala, D.A. Sadilenko.
Introduction: The Smer...
Taiwan geologists have confirmed the existence of more than 500 billion cubic meters of gas hydrate off the southwest coast, enough to meet the island's gas needs for over 60 years.
But commercial extraction is likely much more than a decade away as techniques to tap the gas are still being develop...
A Molniya-M rocket with 2BL upper stage is scheduled to launch the Kosmos-2422 spy satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on July 20
The launch period extends to July 31.
The US-KMO satellite will be part of an early-warning system.
Mystery Boom in in Christian County, Missouri
Law enforcement officers and firefighters searched but didn’t find the source of a loud noise on Tuesday night. People who heard it around 9:45 said it sounded like an explosion, very close thunder or a sonic boom.
The Christian County Sheriff’s...
Re-entry times of Space junk.
Name Date Size
29122 SL-14 DEB 1985-108L CIS 2006-07-30 0.59
29153 SL-14 DEB 1985-108AN CIS 2006-07-31 0.1
29149 SL-14 DEB 1985-108AJ CIS 2006-08-04 0.21
29152 SL-14 DEB 1985-108AM CIS 2006-08-08 0.17
29220 SL-1...
A meteor lit up the Hawke's Bay sky at 9.45 last night and burnt up with a boom that rattled windows.
"It was like an earthquake, but without the shaking," said an Akina woman.
An Otane woman said her father saw a "huge, big fireball with a long tail" overhead and heading towards...
Four thousand years ago work began to erect the great earthen burial mounds that comprise the Bronze Age barrow cemetery at the Knowes of Trotty, in Harray, Orkney. There are at least 16 barrows - or graves - in two rows, nestling between the edge of the farmlands and the foot of the moorland. Many were r...
Atlantic Tropical Storm Ernesto is building up strength over the Caribbean and is moving towards the Gulf of Mexico.
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Current forecasts show Tropical Storm Ernesto reaching hurrican...
Sunspot 10 905 has developed a beta-gamma magnetic field that could produce M-class solar flares.
This bipolar sunspot is similar to Sunspot 10902 that appeared on July 31st, in that it too has the magnetic poles reversed.
(The North pole is the larger of the two spots)
The reversal o...
A bright magnitude 14.7 (and rising) supernova, 2006ej, was discovered on the 23rd August 2006, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, (R. Mostardi, H. Khandrika, and W. Li ) in the spiral galaxy NGC 191A in the constellation C...
Title: A Keplerian gaseous disk around the B0 star R Mon
Authors: A. Fuente, T. Alonso-Albi, R. Bachiller, A. Natta, L. Testi, R. Neri, P. Planesas
Researchers present high-angular resolution observations of the circumstellar disk around the massive Herbig Be star R Mon (M...
On July 14, 1965, Mariner 4 swooped over Mars. It was a moment of high drama. Six other probes had already tried to reach the red planet and failed. Since the days of H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds, 1898), people had been hearing about life on Mars, and they were ready to see the canals and cities. The wait wa...
The ~7-km-wide Slate Islands group represents the heavily eroded central peak of a ~32 km diameter (from bathymetric data) complex impact crater. The 436 million year old Slate Islands meteorite crater is located in northern Lake Superior ~10 km south of Terrace Bay and ~150 km east of Thunder Bay,...
French physicists believe they can solve the mystery behind dozens of nuclear experiments conducted years ago. The experiments, conducted with a variety of detectors, energies, and colliding nuclear species, left puzzling results, so puzzling and hard to interpret that many of the experiment...