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Bismarck Sea Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 00:40:40 (UTC) on Thursday, June 7, 2007, in the Bismarck Sea, 160 km SSW of Lorengau, Manus Island, PNG, at a depth of 22.6 km. Location 3.382°S, 146.783°E
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Edwin Hubble: The Name Behind the Telescope Early next year the Hubble Space Telescope will receive its fifth visit from NASA space mechanics. Since its launch in 1990 The Hubble has done much for the advancement and popularity of astronomy, just as its namesake increased our knowledge of the night...
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Antarctic lake mission targets life and climate signs A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice hopes to find unknown forms of life and clues to future climate impacts. The mission will use hot water to melt its way through ice 3km thick to reach Lake Ellsworth, which ha...
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Rutan Model 76 Voyager
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The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refuelling. It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. The flight took off from Edwards Air Force Base's 4,600 m runway in the Mojave Desert on December 14, 1986, and ended successfully 9 days, 3 minutes an...
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Roosevelt Island, Antarctica
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Bedrock breakthrough in Antarctica A team of scientists from nine nations, led by Victoria University's Dr Nancy Bertler, have made a huge breakthrough in Antarctica - successfully drilling more than 760m through the ice to the bedrock, on an island in the Ross Sea. The international project has b...
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The Palaeozoic Era
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The Palaeozoic Era (from the Greek palaio, "old" and zoion, "animals", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic eon. The Palaeozoic spanned from roughly 542 mya to roughly 251 mya (ICS, 2004), and is subdivided into six ge...
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Anegada
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Title: Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence for an unusual tsunami or storm a few centuries ago at Anegada, British Virgin Islands Authors: Atwáter, Brian F.; ten Brink, Uri S.; Buckley, Mark ; Halley, Robert S.; Jaffe, Bruce E.; López-Venegas, Alberto M.; Reinhardt, Eduard G.; Tuttle, Mariti...
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 08:22:10 (UTC) on Sunday, July 23, 2006, in the Sulawesi region, Indonesia, 105 km South of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, at a Depth of 86.2 km.
Location 0.415°S, 123.177°E
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New Madrid Quake
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On Dec. 16, 1811, residents of New Madrid, US, were wrested from sleep by violent shaking and a deafening roar. A short time later, church bells hundreds of miles away in Boston began to ring. It was the first of three massive earthquakes that rocked the central United States between December 1811 and...
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Malargue ground station
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ESA to build its third deep space ground station in Argentina On 22 June, ESA informed Argentinean authorities that an area 30 km south of the town of Malargüe in Mendoza province, about 1000 km west of Buenos Aires, has been chosen as the best option to build a new 35-meter antenna in support of its prog...
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Bedd Morris standing stone
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An ancient Welsh stone that has stood as a warning to against bad behaviour for centuries is in need of repair to ensure its survival. The large prehistoric standing stone at Bedd Morris, on the Newport to Cwm Gwaun mountain road, has become unstable after years of been shaken by the elements and passi...
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The icecaps had been melting since about 13,000 BC, steadily raising sea levels worldwide and the middle-east was just emerging from a long climatic drought, 6200-5700 BC .
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Banda Quake
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A major magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred at 16:58:48 (UTC) on Friday, January 27, 2006, in the Banda Sea.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 341.5 km.
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TV astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, host of The Sky at Night, is admitted to hospital with heart problems.
He is being treated at a hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, after being admitted last night.
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University of Leuven
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The Catholic University of Leuven, or of Louvain, was the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. The university was founded in 1425 as the University of Leuven by John IV, Duke of Brabant and approved by a Papal bull by Pope Martin V. Read more Leuven University from the Sky [video...
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