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Monnig Meteorite Gallery
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Many meteorites land in Fort Worth - eventually A chunk of Mars did most of the traveling, zooming through space as a meteor before being found in Libya in 1998. Old-fashioned horse trading brought it the rest of the way to the Monnig Meteorite Gallery at Texas Christian University. That small museum...
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Brecon Beacons National Park
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Brecon Beacons National Park wins dark sky status The night sky above the Brecon Beacons National Park has been granted special protection. It has become Wales' first and only the fifth destination in the world to be granted the status of an international dark sky reserve. [url=http://www.bbc.c...
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Isle of Man Space Race
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Sleepy Isle of Man moves into the space age This outcrop in the Irish Sea is a magnet for entrepreneurs, an incubator for new enterprises of the most surprising sort. In a nondescript building on a housing estate in Onchan a company called CVI made the laser optics with which Nasa's Phoenix Lander spot...
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OSU Radiation Centre
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CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON TEST FACILITY FOR NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY CONCEPT Construction has begun at Oregon State University on a $4.8 million facility to test a new nuclear energy technology that could be safer, more efficient and produce less waste than existing approaches. It's a viable and versatil...
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STORM instrument
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NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-ray Imager Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Ear...
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Don Juan Pond
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How the worlds saltiest pond gets its salt Jay Dickson and Jim Head have gathered time-lapse photography and other data about the sustained salinity of Antarcticas Don Juan Pond, the most saline natural body of water on earth. Their findings, published online in Scientific Reports, suggest that s...
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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The Astronomical Society of the Pacific was founded on the 7th February, 1889
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Konstantin Feoktistov (1926 - 2009)
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Ex-USSR cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov has died Konstantin Feoktistov was the USSR's first civilian cosmonaut and crew member of the 1964 Voskhod spaceship. Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (February 7, 1926 - November 22, 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. He also wr...
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The Edgar Wilson Award
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THE EDGAR WILSON AWARD This is to announce the establishment of and the criteria for the Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets. The Award shall be allocated annually among the amateur astronomers who, using amateur equipment, have discovered one or more new comets. Only comets official...
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Johannes Hevelius
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In the late 17th century, the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius began crafting a new atlas of the stars. He had one big problem, though. There were many "supernumeri," leftover stars that didn't belong to any known constellation. Hevelius got creative, and devised new constellatio...
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The California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory invites the public to share the wonders of exploring the universe during its open house on Saturday, June 25, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors will go behind the glass for an insider's tour of the giant Hale Telescope.
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Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Lomonosov Moscow State University is the largest university in Russia. The establishment of the university was instigated by Ivan Shuvalov and Mikhail Lomonosov, and the decree ordering its creation was issued by Russian Empress Elizabeth on January 25 (January 12 old style), 1755. The first le...
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Raymond Baxter
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Television presenter Raymond Baxter - best known for fronting the BBC's science programme Tomorrow's World - has died at the age of 84. Read more
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OBRS catalogue
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Title: The catalogue of positions of optically bright extragalactic radio sources OBRS-2 Authors: Leonid Petrov It is anticipated that future space-born missions, such as Gaia, will be able to determine in optical domain positions of more than 100,000 bright quasars with sub-mas accuracies th...
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Deep Space Industries
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Deep Space Industries Announces Fleet of Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft Deep Space Industries announced today that it will send a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft out into the solar system to hunt for resources to accelerate space development to benefit Earth. These "FireFly"...
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