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The world is not enough for Google, with the search engine behemoth teaming with astronomers to build one of the world's most powerful telescopes in…
Sunday, 07 January 2007 09:00
Meteorite invades Planet Earth - lands in New Jersey
By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
If the meteorite had landed in Iraq, no-one might have noticed. But it ripped through the roof of a New Jersey house, demolishing a second-floor…
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Saturday, 06 January 2007 23:07
Meteorite that crashed into New Jersey home temporarily called Freehold Township Meteorite
The 13-ounce (377-gram) oblong object that fell through a New Jersey home’s roof and landed in a second-floor bathroom on January 2, 2007, was an…
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Astronomers using the ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra Observatory have found evidence of a significant new class of supernova.
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Saturday, 06 January 2007 00:43
Pieces of Soyuz-2.1b (rather than SL-4) rocket fall on Wyoming after launch of Corot satellite
On January 4, 2007, media sources reported that pieces of a spent Russian SL-4 rocket reentered the Earth’s atmosphere over southwestern Colorado and northwestern Wyoming…
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It looks like a cross between something out of a cheap science fiction movie and the NASA re-entry capsules that preceded the space shuttle. However,…
Thursday, 04 January 2007 20:30
Replenishing NASA's supply of simulated lunar soil for return to the Moon
We aren’t going back to the Moon without first practicing with simulated lunar soil and rocks here on the Earth. NASA needs it to simulate…
The early discovery of a black hole inside a globular star cluster by a team using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite has astonished astronomers.
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Wednesday, 03 January 2007 22:59
Compact Muon Solenoid: Largest physics experiment to be held in 2007
Over the last fifteen years about 2,300 engineers and scientists from over 150 scientific institutions in 37 countries around the world have worked together to…
With the year 2007 upon us, it is important, in my opinion, to know how many years we are into the third millennium. Back on…
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