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Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve
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Gibraltar Point gears up for school holidays Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve south of Skegness has announced plans for a series of events to get children off the sofa and outdoors this half-term. Some of the fun-filled activities taking place at the reserve will include apples and orchards themed e...
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Nielson Physics Building planetarium
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UT installing planetarium in Nielson Physics Building Stargazing will no longer require a sky - at least not at the University of Tennessee campus. The physics and astronomy department is installing a 20-foot planetarium in a high-ceilinged classroom in the Nielson Physics Building. The roughl...
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Hurricane Wilma
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If you haven’t already been following the gathering strength of Hurricane Wilma the latest news is that it is the most intense Atlantic storm ever recorded.
On Wednesday it became a Category 5 monster with 282 km/h wind that forecasters warned was "extremely dangerous."
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 09:08:50 (UTC) on Thursday, August 11, 2005 located South-east of the Loyalty Islands.
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Spanish Quake
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August 12th, 2007 8:47 GMT: An earthquake which registered a 4.7 magnitude in Ciudad Real, has been felt all over Spain with more intensity in the centre of the country. Residents in the surroundings of Madrid reported at least 5 seconds of shaking. Read more
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Deutsches Museum planetarium
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In 1910 Max Wolf proposed to the Carl Zeiss optics firm the creation of a new instrument, now known as the planetarium. World War I intervened before this could be developed, but the Carl Zeiss company resumed this project after peace was restored. The first official public showing was at the Deutsch...
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Dark-sky discovery sites
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Several organisations, including the Forestry Commission and the John Muir Trust, are collaborating to establish inner-city dark sky discovery sites in "small oases of unlit land". Dan Hillier, manager of the visitors' centre at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory, is leading the proje...
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Ales stenar
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Ales stenar (Stones) is Sweden's largest preserved "ship setting" - stones set in the layout of a ship. We do not know for certain what function the stones have had through the ages, or what the ship setting symbolised for the people who created it.
67 metres long and 19 metres wide, Ales stenar is o...
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Sir Christopher Wren
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Sir Christopher Wren (20 October 1632 - 25 February 1723) was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, mathematician-physicist and one of the greatest English architects in history. "Since the time of Archimedes there scarce ever met in one man in so great perfection such a me...
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UMass Dartmouth Observatory
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Heidelberg University
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The Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Heidelberg University, Ruperto Carola) is a public research university located in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. On October 18, 1386, a special Pontifical High Mass in the Heiliggeistkirche was the ceremony that established the unive...
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Celebes Sea Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 15:48:03 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 12, 2006, in the Celebes Sea region, about 249 km north of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia, at a depth of 211.5 km.
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Klyuchevskoi, volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula erupted at about 8 a.m. GMT, sending volcanic ash and Ash plumbs high into the atmosphere. The volcanic dust cloud has already spread 35 kilometres to the southwest of Klyuchevskoi. Volcanologists had predicted the volcano was due to erupt thre...
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Tellus Science Museum
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Dundee inspires future astronomers at Tellus[url=http://www.daily-tribune.com/view/full_story/20487774/article-Dundee-inspires-futu...
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Sunita Williams
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Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams has reached Ahmedabad on a week-long visit to India. Williams will spend most of her time in Gujarat, which is her father Deepak Pandya's native state. She is also scheduled to visit the Sabarmati Ashram in the state. The flight engineer is the daughter of a...
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