1. Brazil August 2003: 21 people were dead.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-04za.html
"The commission's conclusion echoed the opinion of Brazilian Defense Minister Jose Viegas, who admitted the shortage of funds was the root cause for the space tragedy although officia...
On "National Geographic Channel", there is a show about "Doomsday Rock" from outer space.
What is the best way to avoid the collision / destroy this doomsday rock?
Nuclear missiles, rocket engines, giant lens and evaporation, or other way?
Swirls of gas and dust enrich this little observed star field toward the constellation of Sagittarius.
Just to the side of the more often photographed Lagoon Nebula (M8) and the Trifid Nebula (M20) lies this busy patch of sky dubbed IC 4678.
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Only days before Gagarin's successful journey, several European newspapers and radio stations told of a top-secret Soviet launch that carried another man into space. The Soviet Union denied this story vigorously. Now, for the first time, this program reveals with direct evidence that the first...
Is it possible to use PowerPC G5 Cluster for Astronomy Applications?
Is it cheaper to use Opteron Cluster or Xeon Cluster?
What kind of astronomy applications is suitable for massive cluster?
Jovian-mass Planet found in Microlensing Event OGLE-2005-BLG-071
For the first time, amateur and professional astronomers have teamed up to discover a new planet circling a distant star. The planet was detected by looking for the effect of its gravitational field on light from a mor...
Coast dwellers are accustomed to the daily rhythm of the tides, which are primarily lulled in and out by the gentle gravitational tug of the moon. Some scientists wonder whether the moon's tugging may also influence earthquake activity.
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A breathtaking panorama of Mars from Larry's Lookout. The lookout occurs near the peak of Husband Hill in the Columbia Hills.
The summit of Husband Hill is visible 200 metres in the distance toward the centre of the 360-degree near-true-colour picture.
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The most detailed measurements to date of the dusty disks around young stars confirm a new theory that the region where rocky planets such as Earth form is much farther away from the star than originally thought.
"These first definitive measurements of planet-forming zones offer important c...
Maplesoft™, the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science and mathematics, announced today a major release of Maple™, the company’s flagship product.
Maple 10 has been developed to be intuitive and easy to use while providing the most advan...
Scientists excited about potential site of meteorite
May 22, 2005
The crash millions of years ago of what could have been a 900-foot-wide meteorite in St. Clair Count, US, could provide lessons for today if a small meteorite evading current detection methods hits Earth.
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A new website has some interesting experiments and questionnaires about how you perceive faces and voices. You will get feedback on the results of the experiments if you participate; and there is information on the scientific theories behind the experiments.
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When something that looked curiously like a meteorite landed in Bill Hicks’s driveway and left a sizable indentation, he wondered out loud if maybe it was meant for his neighbour.
“We live near Camp Phillip. Maybe God was trying to speak to them and he missed.” - Bill Hicks.
“We’v...
Preparations have begun to launch an American telecommunications spacecraft - Direc TV8, aboard a proton-M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome on May 31, 2005.
The rocket is expected to arrive at the cosmodrome on April 20 by rail.
The satellite will provide radio and television broadcastin...
