Article from New Scientist online pages Wanted: fragments of a minivan-sized meteor that exploded over northern California and Nevada on Sunday morning and may well have survived to strike Earth. Meteorites – meteors that make landfall – can provide crucial information about the chemical composition of the early solar system. “It’s like getting sample return …
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The results may mean that attempts to directly detect particles of the invisible substance on Earth are likely to be unsuccessful. From Astronomy Magazine online By ESO, Garching, Germany — Published: April 19, 2012 This annotated artist’s impression shows the Milky Way Galaxy. The blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy indicates the expected distribution …
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From left to right: Dr Jeff Hoffman, Dr Robert Williams, Dr Gordon McCloud, Prof. Charles McGruder NASA ASTRONAUT GIVES PUBLIC LECTURES TO PROMOTE ASTRONOMY AND SUPPORT FOR THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY BID An astronaut from the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)held public lectures during a visit to Hermanus on 13 November …
TUESDAY 27 JULY E-mail to all committee Members QUOTE I received a call from Georgio at the Wortelgat Nature Reserve that he saw a bright moving object in the sky between Gans Baai and Stanford sometime between 10.00 pm and 11.00 pm that appeared to break up as it approached Stanford area. Did any of …
