Title: Earth-grazing fireball on March 29, 2006 Authors: Abe, S.; Borovicka, J.; Spurny, P.; Koten, P.; Ceplecha, Z.; Tamagawa, T.; Meteor Network Team in JAPAN A bright fireball of -8 absolute magnitude was observed at 11:24:07(UT) on 29 March 2006 from several stations, which lasted for about 3...
Bright fireball seen streaking over southern Ontario Some sky watchers out to view the grouping of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter got an extra treat on Sunday night as a particularly bright meteor - called a bolide - zipped through the skies a little after 9 p.m. local time. [url=http://ca.news.yahoo....
Chagai-I was the codename referring to the five underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan at 15:15hrs (3:15 pm PST) on 28 May 1998. The tests were performed in a secret Chagai weapon-testing laboratories, located in the Chagai District of the Baluchistan Province of Pakistan. Read more
On this day in 1959, the 10 year old squirrel monkey Miss Bakerand the rhesus monkey Abel were launched on a suborbital flight aboard a US JUPITER AM-18 rocket from Cape Canaveral. The first primates in space (defined as above 50 mile altitude by the U.S. at the time) returned to earth unharmed. Abel di...
Copahue volcano eruption puts Argentina and Chile on alert The authorities in Argentina and Chile have issued an alert over increased activity at the Copahue volcano, which has begun spewing smoke and gas. Many residents have already left the area as a precaution. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ne...
A total solar eclipse occurred on May 28, 1900. In 1900 the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, then based in Washington, D.C., loaded several railroad cars with scientific equipment and headed to Wadesboro, North Carolina. Scientists had determined that this small town would be the best lo...
Luca Parmitano gets his chance to fly in space The Sicilian is about to fulfil a dream by flying on a Russian Soyuz vehicle to the International Space Station on Tuesday. Read more Luca Parmitano (born in Paternò 27 Septem...
Title: Lacerta I and Cassiopeia III: Two luminous and distant Andromeda satellite dwarf galaxies found in the 3 Pan-STARRS1 survey Authors: Nicolas F. Martin, Colin T. Slater, Edward F. Schlafly, Eric Morganson, Hans-Walter Rix, Eric F. Bell, Benjamin P. M. Laevens, Edouard J. Bernard, Annette...
NEE-01 Pegasus Is the first Ecuadorian satellite, built by the Ecuadorian Space Agency and presented officially in April 4, 2011. The NEE-01 PEGASUS is a nano satellite, of the cubesat 1U class, it has a cubic shape and two solar panel wings with 3 panels on each side for a total of 6 panels per wing, its...
La Terre ne peut provenir d'un seul type de météorites En analysant la composition isotopique du silicium de la Terre silicatée et de différentes chondrites (météorites), deux chercheurs du Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, planètes et environnement (CNRS, ENS Lyon et UCBL) montrent que l...
Neuschwanstein was an enstatite chondrite (type EL6) meteorite that fell to Earth on 6 April 2002 at 22:20:18 GMT near Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, at the Germany-Austria border. Read more
Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for the German Kriegsmarine. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power. Bismarck conducted only one offensive operation, in May 1941, c...
