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Aden Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 18:16:33 (UTC) on Friday, August 26, 2005, in the Gulf of Aden, at a Depth of 10 km.
Location 14.483°N, 52.280°E
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Typhoon Mawar
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Typhoon Mawar (left) is captured with Tropical Cyclone Guchol in this satellite image. Both storms are far out in the north-western Pacific Ocean, some 900 kilometres from Tokyo.
They are travelling in parallel with each other, both headed roughly northwest at comparable...
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NEO Grants
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The Planetary Society recently awarded Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants to five researchers: Peter Birtwhistle of England, Erich Meyer of Australia, Gianluca Masi of Italy, James W. Ashley of the U.S., and David J. Higgins of Australia, to study hazardous Near Earth Objects (comets an...
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Tropical Storm Irene
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Irene, the 9th tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has weakened into a depression with winds less than 56 kph, and tropical Storm Harvey continued to move into the open Atlantic Ocean.
Irene formed on Sunday east-northeast of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean and...
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Solar dish array
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Stirling Energy Systems have signed a purchase agreement on Tuesday with Southern California Edison (SEC), to install a 20,000 solar dish array that will cover 4,500 acres that will be capable of generating 500 megawatts of electricity - more than all other current U.S. solar proj...
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McDonald Island
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The sub-antarctic McDonald Island in the remote Southern Ocean has doubled in size due to a volcanic eruption. Lava has slowly engulfing two neighbouring outcrops after several eruptions over the past 13 years.
The volcano had laid dormant for 75,000 years before erupting in 1992.
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Typhoon Matsa
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Typhoon Matsa is shown here on the morning of August 2, 2005.
This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite at 04:40 UTC (2:40 p.m. local time[img]http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archi...
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Tropical storm Banyan
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The powerful tropical storm Banyan is moving slowly north toward Japan on Monday, threatening to make landfall by the end of the week along a coast that was hit by a record number of deadly typhoons last year.
As of 0600 GMT, tropical storm Banyan, named after a tree common in tropical region...
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NUGGET
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Astrobiologists, who search for evidence of life on other planets, may find a proposed Neutron/Gamma ray Geologic Tomography (NUGGET) instrument to be one of the most useful tools in their toolbelt.
Principal Investigator Sam Floyd holds the device that will be used this summer when...
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Peru Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 14:11:36 (UTC) on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 in Southern Peru.
Location 15.353°S, 72.966°W
Depth 109.6 km
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Typhoon Haitang
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Typhoon Haitang has been gradually building up strength in the northwest Pacific Ocean several hundred kilometres from the Mariana Islands. This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite at 04:10 UTC on July 14, 2005.
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RD-0124 engine
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A new generation space rocket engine, designed to propel Soyuz and Angara rocket vehicles, was successfully tested in Voronezh, a city 450 kilometres south of Moscow.
A spokesman for the Voronezh regional administration's main department of industry, transport, and communications said t...
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New Tectonic Plate
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Shinji Toda, a Japanese geologist, has discovered a new tectonic plate under the Tokyo area, a finding that may force the government to review its quake preparation plans.
Japan endures 20 per cent of the world's powerful earthquakes as the country lies at the crossing of four tectonic plates -- t...
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Florida fire
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A wildfire in the Arizona mountains south of Tucson is threatening the Fred Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins.
The "Florida" fire, named after the mountain peak where the fire started July 7, has approached to within 1.6 km of the Observatory. The observatory is home to several telescop...
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Hurricane Emily
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Tropical Storm Emily is shown here in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred kilometres north of the Brazilian coast on July 12, 2005. The image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite at 12:55 UTC.
The fledgling storm didn'...
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