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Mikhail Levchenko observatory
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Eclipse inspires homemade observatory revival Russian town to rehab rickety wooden tower capped with aluminium dome From a garden bursting with roses, violets, burgeoning cabbages and broken furniture in the remote West Siberian town of Barnaul rises a rickety wooden tower capped with an alumi...
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Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope
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Title: TEST - The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope Authors: Philipp Eigmüller, Jochen Eislöffel The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope (TEST) is a robotic telescope system. The telescope uses a folded Schmidt Camera with a 300mm main mirror. The focal length is 940mm and it gives a 2.2 s...
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Chabot Space & Science Centre
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Astronomers at Chabot Space & Science Centre have joined an elite team of cosmic watchdogs. Scanning the night sky for objects that could one day cross paths with our planet, a telescope at Chabot is now used to contribute to the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Centre's search fo...
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Los Angeles Quake
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A strong magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurred at 18:42:15 (UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in the greater Los Angeles area, 3 km SW from Chino Hills, California, at a depth of 12.3 km. Location 33.959°N, 117.752°W
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Tropical Storm Fung-Wong
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Tropical Storm Fung-Wong is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan. probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 42 hours probability for TS is 70% in about 42 hours
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Dolomiti Astronomical Observatory
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The observatory is located 2 kilometres from central Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. The observatory has a Ritchey Chretien A&M 16" f/8 Astrositall Star Instruments optics, carbon tubes truss design, all CNC aluminium and stainless. The telescope is fully automatic thanks to the solid...
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Tropical Storm Dolly
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Tropical Storm Dolly is forecast to make landfall in the United States probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 85% in about 24 hours Mexico probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 85% in about 24 h...
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Micro Air Vehicle
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On Wednesday 23 July, TU Delft will be presenting the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar to a dragonfly. Ultra-small, remote-controlled micro aircraft with cameras, such as this DelFly, may well be...
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La Pitchoune Dolmen
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The Pitchouno dolmen lies near the village of Menerbes. It is a unique monument as it is the only dolmen in the area. This monument seems to date from 2000 or 3000 years ago. Unlike the Breton dolmens, it consists of a single monolithic block supported on stone walls. Latitude: 43°49'36.84"N,...
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Viking burial stone
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An ancient Viking burial stone kept in a south Wirral church has become the centre of an archaeological dispute. The stone at the Church of St Mary and St Helen, in Neston town centre, which has been broken over time prior to its discovery, clearly depicts a man and a woman with an angel flying overhead....
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Oxford henge
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Archaeologists excavating a mass grave in the grounds of an Oxford (England) college uncovered what could be a monument dating back 5,000 years. They found evidence of what they believe to be a 150m circular "henge" monument dating back to about 3,000BC - making it just one of about a doze...
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Selangor Astronomy Station
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The Selangor government is building an astronomy station for educational, research and tourism purposes apart from facilitating the sighting of the new moon to determine the start of Ramadan and Aidilfitri. The RM2 million station, which will be built on a 0.4ha site in Sungai Lang, Sabak Bernam,...
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Homo Liujiang
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Hominid fossils are the most important materials to explore human origins and evolution. Since most hominid fossils are incomplete, or filled with a heavy calcified matrix, it is difficult or often impossible to reconstruct the endocast in a real fossil without destroying it. Accordingly, trad...
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kuehneosaurs
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Archaeopteryx is famous as the worlds oldest bird, but reptiles were flying about some 50 million years earlier than that (225 million years ago), even before large dinosaurs roamed the Earth. A new study of extinct reptiles called kuehneosaurs, by scientists from the University of Bristol, Engl...
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Rodinia Supercontinent
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Title: A Positive Test of East AntarcticaLaurentia Juxtaposition Within the Rodinia Supercontinent Authors: J. W. Goodge, J. D. Vervoort, C. M. Fanning, D. M. Brecke, G. L. Farmer, I. S. Williams, P. M. Myrow, D. J. DePaolo A glacial boulder in Antarctica, and other data, confirm that East Antarct...
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