A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket will launch the Galaxy 16 satellite into orbit for PanAmSat, on June 12th, from the Odyssey platform, stationed in Pacific Ocean (...
Asteroids discovered by students and professors at Calvin College now bear the names of two Calvin retirees: former Calvin president Dr. William Spoelhof and former Calvin dean and physics department chair Roger Griffioen.
Each asteroid is approximately the size of Calvin's entire Knollcre...
The Norwegians have found Norway's first dinosaur using a oil exploration drill in the North Sea, at 2256 metres below the seabed. It had been there for nearly 200 million years, ever since the time the North Sea was an enormous alluvial plane.
It is merely a coincidence that the remains of the old...
The Cosmos-2405 satellite has lowered its orbit in preparation for re-entry.
Cosmos-2405 is a naval Eorsat reconnaissance satellite of the US-P system, launched on May 28, 2004, from launch pad No. 20 on launch complex No. 90 at the Baikonur launch site.
The satellite was given an internati...
Scientists in Italy have discovered that carbon dioxide can form a glass, the British journal Nature reports on Thursday.
Under extremely high pressures of up to half a million atmospheres, molecules of carbon dioxide (CO2) form a glassy crystalline solid, they found.
Carbon is a member of...
Ett brinnande klot sågs igår kväll på himlen ovanför Småland- och Blekingetrakten. "Det såg ut som en nyårsraket som sköts ner mot jorden istället för upp", beskriver ett vittne fenomenet, som syntes tydligt i flera sekunder. Det kan röra sig om en meteorit som slagit ner någonstans i området.[...
Hum,
i got a strange email with this:
"13 june 2006 at 17:15 UTC defragmented splitt to two fireballs fragments was seen over north Poland over the city Gdansk and Gdynia . fireball came from north direction and was seen in the sky wery bright light of this two fragments for about 3 sekundes an...
There's a new crater on the Moon. It's about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.
NASA astronomers watched it form:
"On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that's about the same as 4 ton...
Meteorite? Satellite? Something else?
Whatever it was, the area has been buzzing about something in the sky near Culbertson, Montana, US around 10 p.m. Monday.
"The only thing that we saw was a flash of light. There were several small flashes, then a large one. It sounded like a jet, like a j...
The world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking said on Tuesday, at a news conference in Hong Kong, that the survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth .
The British astroph...
Conditions in Europe are set to be ideal for perfect views of the International Space Station (ISS) as it passes overhead up to four times a night this coming weekend.
Provided you know in which direction to look, spotting the ISS with the naked eye is not as difficult as it might seem. Although the...
Composer György Sándor Ligeti died on Monday. He was 83. Ligeti passed away in Vienna, Austria, after battling a long illness and spending the last three weeks confined to a wheelchair.
György Sándor Ligeti (born May 28, 1923) was a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an A...
Archaeologists working in a Perthshire forest have made some “remarkable” prehistoric discoveries.
The remains of this prehistoric homestead have been found.
The second season of an archaeological dig has begun. The aim will be to excavate the interior of the enclosure and confirm whether...
Title: The new pre-cataclysmic binary PG 2200+085
Authors: V. Shimansky, N.A.Sakhibullin, I.Bikmaev, H.Ritter, V. Suleimanov, N. Borisov, A. Galeev
Researchers present the results of spectroscopic-- and orbit--sampled photometric observations of the faint UV-exc...
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