The Meandering Channels of Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 10, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (6) | 5

Sinuous channels on the Martian surface may be evidence of relatively recent rainfall. Researchers plan to test this hypothesis by studying sinuous streams on Earth.

New Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy

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Dec 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (12) | 26

Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.

Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required

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Dec 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bundle up and get ready to watch a fiery lightshow stirred up by dead comets in Earth's upper atmosphere during the cold of winter in the dead of night. The annual Geminid meteor shower is ...

The 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower (w/ Video)

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Dec 08, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0

Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends. The best meteor shower of 2009 is about to fall over North America on a long, cold December night.

STAR TRAK for December: Geminid meteors flash in December skies

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Dec 03, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower, which will reach its maximum on the night of Dec. 13-14, usually offers the best show of the year, outperforming even the Perseid shower of August. This year ...

Geminid meteor shower to peak on 14th December 2009

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Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak at 0510 GMT on 14th December. Meteors (or ‘shooting stars’) are the result of small particles entering the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, heating up ...

After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 19, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (12) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground ...

Meteor showers in Asia disappoint

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Nov 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many because of ...

Leonid meteor shower peaks Tuesday, Nov. 17 (w/ Video)

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Nov 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the hours before dawn on Nov. 17.

The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

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Nov 10, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America followed by a more intense outburst ...

STAR TRAK for November: Mars is prominent again

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pumpkin-colored Mars will return to prominence during November, rising shortly before midnight at the beginning of the month and more than two hours earlier by month's end. The orange planet ...

Icebreaker: Scientist brings out big gun to explore behavior of ice in planetary collisions

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Oct 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard's Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers ...

Orionids Meteor Shower Lights Up the Sky

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Oct 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

Earth is currently passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, lighting up the night sky with the "fireworks" of the annual Orionids meteor shower.

Orionid meteor shower peaks Wednesday

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Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Orionid meteor shower will peak in the hours before dawn on Oct. 21, according to the editors of StarDate magazine, who said the shower could produce up to 20 meteors per hour.

Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 16, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (10) | 2

When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder ...