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UNESCO and IAU Understanding
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A Memorandum of Understanding is to be signed today, 30 October 2008, between UNESCO and the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The IAU will be integrally involved in the process of developing UNESCO's Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative, helping to promote astronomical sites of &qu...
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Birth of a new ocean
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In a remote part of northern Ethiopia, the Earths crust is being stretched to breaking point, providing geologists with a unique opportunity to watch the birth of what may eventually become a new ocean. Lorraine Field, a PhD student, and Dr James Hammond, both from the Department of Earth Sciences,...
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Lake Dixie
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The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, sh...
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Green Propulsion Engine
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Northrop Grumman Completes 'Green Propulsion' Engine Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed manufacturing and integrating a spacecraft engine that runs on the "green" or non-toxic propellants of liquid oxygen and liquid methane for possible use on NASA human exploration mis...
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Alien Organisms
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Cold Storage for Alien Organisms The Moon fascinates us. The only world other than Earth upon which humans have set foot, we know a remarkable amount about it, yet countless mysteries remain. One theory, presented at Europlanet's latest Planetary Science Congress by Joop Houtkooper from the Univ...
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DFMA
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You have to kick aside the fallen leaves to find a small marker identifying the Department of Forensic Morphology Annex, a four-year-old installation just south of the UW Law School. Students scurry by to their classes, seemingly oblivious (or accustomed) to the stainless-steel blob, which look...
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Kentucky Observatory
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Are you interested in astronomy? If so, mark your calendar for one of the Evenings of Observing at The Bank of Kentucky Observatory at Thomas More College. Each evening will include a brief talk in the Science Lecture Hall about what you will see in the skies that evening, followed by an opportunity t...
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Ad Astra
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Ad Astra Rocket Company in Liberia
On July 15, 2006 a new space rocket facility was inaugurated in Liberia Costa Rica. The new site on the property of the Earth University is the Costa Rican sector of the Ad Astra Rocket Company (AARC) set up by Dr Franklin Chang Diaz, the Costa Rican physicist and ast...
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Origins
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"Origins", a new Franco-Chinese International Associated Laboratory in Astrophysics On October 22nd in Beijing, France and China set up Origins, an International Associated Laboratory (LIA) in Astrophysics. The LIA will work in three main areas the origin of matter and energy in th...
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Stanley Ho Space Theatre
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Space Museum to be refurbished The Space Museum will be given a facelift to offer more innovative and tailor-made services to visitors, its curator Chan Ki-hung says. Renovation work will be conducted over the coming years to upgrade the museum's environment and facilities. The Stanley Ho Space T...
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Bay of Bengal Cyclonic storm
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A cyclonic storm in the northwest Bay of Bengal formed last night and is currently close to the coast of Bangladesh.
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Bangalore Astronaut training centre
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Malabar planetarium
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Doug Stricker jokes there are no plants in the planetarium at Malabar Middle School. But there are opportunities. "We can take you to any spot on the planet Earth and show you the nighttime stars. We can also show you the daytime stars that you can't see." [url=http://www.mansfieldnewsj...
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Astronomical Society of Tasmania
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Budding astronomers are being encouraged to visit large telescopes being set up in northern Tasmania this afternoon. The Astronomical Society of Tasmania is holding its annual state meeting at Evandale's historic Clarendon homestead tonight. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/20...
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Rich Kowalski
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Asteroid searcher hopes his discoveries won't produce direct impact Rich Kowalski is a jovial fellow who loves his job but approaches it with a certain sense of dread. Kowalski doesn't want to be the guy who finds the asteroid headed for Earth that will wipe out our species. But that's pretty much his...
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