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Date with destiny
Beijing :: China | about 14 hours ago
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Just before dawn in a quiet village in North China, a short-waisted man hurries with a bundle of poles toward a clump of weeds to wait for sunrise...He Nu, 46, is head of the excavation team at the Taosi relic site in Xiangfen county, Shanxi province....
Tags: China Daily, North China, New China, Taosi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Beijing, Archaeoastronomy, Han Chinese, Chinese calendar, Excavation, Archaeology, Astronomy, Observatory
Call for 2010-11 Budget sumbissions
Sydney :: Australia | 11 days ago
Credibility Australia has come through the global recession in a stronger position than any other advanced economy. The investments made during the crisis will help strengthen our recovery and lay the foundations for a new era of long-term growth. The challenges...
Tags: Western Australia, Australian Astronomical Observatory, personal property, innocents report, Australia, Sydney, ASTRON, Array, Square Kilometre Array, Politics of Australia, Wajarri language, Radio telescopes, Social Issues, Politics, Australian National University, Stolen Generations, Economy of Australia, Technology Internet, Development charities, Coonabarabran New South Wales, Anglo-Australian Telescope, Investment, Observatory, Property law, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Domes, Siding Spring Observatory, allnews, Superannuation in Australia, Business Finance, Taxation in Australia
Cool Footage: Meteor Caught on Tape
At 12:07 am in Utah, a flash of light lit up the sky, making it look as if it were day. The light came from a meteor entering the Earth’s atmosphere. The surveillance cameras at the Salt Lake City observatory caught the spectacle on video....
Tags: meteor, flash, sky, observatory, caught, on tape, video
Part of Big Island under wind advisory
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility The National Weather Service in Honolulu said a wind advisory is in effect for parts of the Big Island until 8 p.m. tonight. Strong trades with sustained wind speeds of 30 mph or higher with gusts up to 45 mph are expected today near South Point and...
Tags: Big Island, Hawaii County, Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii County Hawaii, Gale warning, Wind, Weather, Information technology management, Marketing, Spam, Charles Ponzi, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Confidence tricksters, Cybercrime, Electronic commerce, Social Issues, Mauna Kea, Thirty Meter Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Observatory, Telescopes, Astronomical observatories, Technology Internet, Underwater diving, Scuba diving, Disaster Accident
Going to work on a high
Zurich :: Switzerland | 21 days ago
Credibility Joan and Martin Fischer earn their crust 3,500 metres above the earth's crust, a European record. Shovelling snow, monitoring experiments, giving a bed to up to 20 scientists – the married couple who run the research station on the Jungfraujoch mountain...
Tags: Martin Fischer, research station, Joan Fischer, Switzerland, Zurich, Jungfraujoch, Jungfrau, Snow, Observatory, Altocumulus cloud, Bernese Oberland, Bernese Alps, Mountains of Switzerland
Australia and the Moon landing
NASA and the Moon landing are interlinked but where does Australia fit in? The answer lies in the radio telescope located in a sheep paddock in rural New South Wales which played an important part in the Neil Armstrong mission. This role of the observatory...
Tags: nasa, moon landing, Neil Armstrong, observatory, southern hemisphere, apolo 11 mission
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