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Malta Symposium on Hazardous Near Earth Asteroids
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Malta Symposium on Hazardous Near Earth Asteroids Russian Cultural and Scientific Centre on Malta October 12-16, 2009 The Year 2009 according to UNESCO is the Year of Astronomy. So many international scientific conferences, seminars and symposiums are devoted to the contemporary astronomy ac...
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Akeman Street museum
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Wild, weird and wonderful exhibits are coming to the Natural History Museum at Tring. Today fossilised trees, meteorite from Mars and a beetle that looks as if it's made from silver were just a few things to go on display at the Akeman Street museum. [url=http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/tring-news/...
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Asteroid (790) Pretoria Occults Star
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The magnitude 13.5 asteroid (790) Pretoria will occult the magnitude 10 star TYC 2255-01354-1 in the constellation Pegasus, on the 19th July, 2009. The stars brightness should dim by 3.5 magnitudes for about 16 seconds. The event will be visible from the Canada, Central America and the Caribbea...
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Cornell hosts Apollo 11 event
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All are invited to celebrate the 40th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, and humans' first steps on the moon, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. July 18 at Kennedy Hall, Cornell University. The celebration will feature a panel discussion, "Apollo 11 Lunar Landing: 40 Years After," at 2 p.m. in C...
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Black Hole Mergers
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NASA will hold a media teleconference 18:00 GMT (1 p.m. EDT) Tuesday, April 18, to announce a breakthrough in simulating black hole mergers and predicting their gravitational wave signatures.
The finding is based on the largest astrophysical calculation ever performed by a NASA supercompute...
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Bhutan Year of Science and Technology
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Bhutan's year of science from solar eclipse day The education ministry will declare 2009 as the "Bhutan Year of Science and Technology" on July 22 when the world will witness one of the biggest events in terrestrial astronomy, the longest solar eclipse. The ministry will launch a series...
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NASA in Dundee
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This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. NASA is hoping it will inspire a new generation of astronauts - some of whom could become the first to walk on Mars. The Space Administration's global mission to encourage new recruits landed in Dundee this morning where a group of sc...
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Lunar Eclipse, July 7, 2009
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Three eclipses, two lunar and a solar, will occur in a span of 30 days starting with a lunar eclipse on Tuesday as part of nature's grand spectacle. The eclipse, however, will not be visible over the UAE. People in Australia and South America can see the eclipse early in the morning. A wide area at the cen...
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Sun 14.06.09
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Quiet Sun Click to Play | View Details STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft watched closely as a solar prominence rose up and spun-off above the Sun over a three-hour period (June 14, 2009). As observed in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme UV light, the gases in a prominence became unstable and broke away f...
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Sun 30.06.09
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Most of the planetary action in June is in the early morning hours, and because sunrise comes early, few people will see Venus, Mars, and Mercury this month. The focus then goes to objects visible after sunset while people linger in the warm outdoors. For the Northern Hemisphere, summer officially b...
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Bilateral Science Summit
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Devon university is hosting a summit of the European Space Agency (Esa) and the United States space agency, Nasa. The University of Plymouth is providing the venue for the agencies' Bilateral Science Summit. About 20 delegates will attend from Monday to Wednesday. Topics would include robotic ex...
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Ormidale Pavilion
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Arran residents and holidaymakers will have a unique opportunity to learn a little about the worlds most advanced project in astronomy in the Ormidale Pavilion next week. Dr Richard Prestage will be giving a talk on a revolutionary new telescope being built at an altitude of 16,500 feet in the Chile...
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Flandrau Science Centre and Planetarium
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Imagine a chance to sit in an informal setting with some of the world's leading science experts and ask whatever questions come to mind. The University of Arizona's Flandrau Science Centre and Planetarium is introducing its "got Science? Café", a series of free, monthly chats with UA pr...
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Sun 22.06.09
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