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Building blocks of life found around star HR 4796A
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-08 08:42:02
A new U.S. study has found complex organic molecules, tholins, in the dust cloud around the star HR 4796A. The important conclusion of these researchers is that this discovery provides good evidence that living organisms are common throughout planetary systems.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-08 08:42:02
A new U.S. study has found complex organic molecules, tholins, in the dust cloud around the star HR 4796A. The important conclusion of these researchers is that this discovery provides good evidence that living organisms are common throughout planetary systems.
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Quadrantid meteor shower: January 3-4, 2008
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-03 08:30:45
The Quadrantid meteor shower is expected to produce a brief-but-intense number of meteors between the hours of 9:00 p.m. Thursday night to 2:00 a.m. Friday morning (0200 UTC and 0700 UTC) over the Northern Hemisphere.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-03 08:30:45
The Quadrantid meteor shower is expected to produce a brief-but-intense number of meteors between the hours of 9:00 p.m. Thursday night to 2:00 a.m. Friday morning (0200 UTC and 0700 UTC) over the Northern Hemisphere.
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Celebrate the New Year with Comet 8P/Tuttle
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-30 08:31:44
On January 1 and 2, 2008, Comet 8P/Tuttle will be making its closest approach to Earth. See it in your local northern sky as it travels less than 24 million miles away. And, southern sky watchers get to see it later in January.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-30 08:31:44
On January 1 and 2, 2008, Comet 8P/Tuttle will be making its closest approach to Earth. See it in your local northern sky as it travels less than 24 million miles away. And, southern sky watchers get to see it later in January.
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Sandia simulation shows small near-earth objects can cause big troubles
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-22 10:02:05
A Sandia supercomputer has found that the space body causing the Tunguska explosion, which destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres and thousands of animals, in Siberia in 1908 was 3-4 times smaller than what first thought. Humans should pay attention to these smaller space bodies for the sake of millions of lives.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-22 10:02:05
A Sandia supercomputer has found that the space body causing the Tunguska explosion, which destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres and thousands of animals, in Siberia in 1908 was 3-4 times smaller than what first thought. Humans should pay attention to these smaller space bodies for the sake of millions of lives.
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Ursid meteor shower to be seen near North Star Saturday evening
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-21 08:33:24
The Ursids will produce some astronomical glee in the northern hemisphere the evening of Saturday, December 22, 2007, and into Sunday morning, if nighttime conditions are just right.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-21 08:33:24
The Ursids will produce some astronomical glee in the northern hemisphere the evening of Saturday, December 22, 2007, and into Sunday morning, if nighttime conditions are just right.
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Where oh where is the comet?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-17 07:52:35
That’s what they said when NASA scientists decided to send their Deep Impact spacecraft to Comet 85P/Boethin. When they looked again for the comet, it was no where to be found. So, Deep Impact was re-direced to Comet Hartley 2.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-17 07:52:35
That’s what they said when NASA scientists decided to send their Deep Impact spacecraft to Comet 85P/Boethin. When they looked again for the comet, it was no where to be found. So, Deep Impact was re-direced to Comet Hartley 2.
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December’s Geminid meteor shower promises to be best of 2007
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-03 09:10:27
The late evening of Thursday, December 13, and continuing on to dawn Friday morning, December 14, is the time frame to see the Geminid meteor shower in North America.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-03 09:10:27
The late evening of Thursday, December 13, and continuing on to dawn Friday morning, December 14, is the time frame to see the Geminid meteor shower in North America.
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See the star-eating comet Monday night 11.19.2007
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-19 08:22:38
Ok, Comet Holmes is not really going to eat a star, but the evening of November 19, 2007, in the western hemisphere, will be a good time to see the comet fly directly in front of the star Mirfak (alpha Persei) and appear to engulf it with its large cloud of dust.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-19 08:22:38
Ok, Comet Holmes is not really going to eat a star, but the evening of November 19, 2007, in the western hemisphere, will be a good time to see the comet fly directly in front of the star Mirfak (alpha Persei) and appear to engulf it with its large cloud of dust.
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Clear evidence of planet formation found in Pleiades
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-18 09:14:48
The Pleiades (M45) open star cluster, about 400 light-years away from the solar system, has been clearly found to contain activity involving the formation of planets as the result of collisions between planets.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-18 09:14:48
The Pleiades (M45) open star cluster, about 400 light-years away from the solar system, has been clearly found to contain activity involving the formation of planets as the result of collisions between planets.
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Leonid meteor shower peaks Saturday night Nov. 17-18, 2007
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-17 13:07:33
The Leonid meteor shower, the Leonids, will be peaking Saturday night in the east-northeastern sky as the atmosphere of the Earth strikes debris in the tail of Comet Tempel-Tuttle.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-17 13:07:33
The Leonid meteor shower, the Leonids, will be peaking Saturday night in the east-northeastern sky as the atmosphere of the Earth strikes debris in the tail of Comet Tempel-Tuttle.
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