Archives for June 2010
World Cup :- Italy v NEW ZEALAND
Published on 20 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 20th June 2010
World Cup today :- Italy v NEW ZEALAND
The path of totality for this eclipse on Sunday 11th July 2010, starts at sunrise to the northeast of New Zealand close to international date line.
It swings in an arc across the Southern Pacific to end at sunset just after making landfall in Southern Chile. [...]
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World Cup :- Netherlands v JAPAN
Published on 19 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 19th June 2010
World Cup today :- Netherlands v JAPAN
Icons of Japanese Culture
Over the centuries, a number of objects which represent aspects of Japanese culture have been seen in the stars of Orion.
Origins of the objects themselves as well as how they came to be represented in the sky are unclear, but each has [...]
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World Cup :- GERMANY v Serbia
Published on 18 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 18th June 2010
World Cup today :- GERMANY v Serbia
German Astronaut, Thomas Reiter breaks European Spaceflight Record.
On July 6, 2006, Reiter became the first German astronaut to board the International Space Station (ISS) and is the first long-duration spaceflyer from Europe to serve aboard the orbital laboratory that his ISS mission was designated Astrolab missions includes more [...]
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World Cup :- Argentina v SOUTH KOREA
Published on 17 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 17th June 2010
World Cup today :- Argentina v SOUTH KOREA
South Korean Rocket Explodes after Launch.
Yestarday Media reports said a South Korean rocket (Naro-1 Rocket) that was launched to put a satellite into orbit has veered off course at an altitude of 70 kilometers and crashed that the mission was thrown into doubt immediately after [...]
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World Cup :- Spain v SWITZERLAND
Published on 16 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 16th June 2010
World Cup :- Spain v Switzerland
The Jungfraujoch is not only a spectacular vantage point but also an excellent location for a wide range for scientific research projects with the pure air (less oxygen) and easy railway access.
About 100 metres down the mountain, train station at the top of Jungfrau is also the [...]
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World Cup :- IVORY COAST v Portugal
Published on 15 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Filed under Asteriods,Features of Interest.
Tuesday 15th June 2010
World Cup today :- IVORY COAST v Portugal
Only collection of five Ivory Coast tektites on display at the British Museum of Natural History, London.
Of course the interesting thing about Ivory Coast tektites is that the source crater is known.
It is the 5.2 miles diameter Bosumtwi Crater in the neighbouring country [...]
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World Cup :- NETHERLANDS v Denmark
Published on 14 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 14th June 2010
World Cup today :- NETHERLANDS v Denmark
A Dutchman John Goodricke was born on 17th September 1764 in Groningen at Holland (The Netherlands), and became deaf after occurred scarlet fever at his age five.
His school was at Thomas Braidwood’s School for the Deaf in Edinburgh, Scotland, after that went to the Warrington Academy [...]
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World Cup @ South Africa
Published on 12 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 12th June 2010
Southern African Large Telescope (S.A.L.T.)
You won’t find any World Cup football game in this stadium, this is the largest single optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at South Africa, with a hexagonal mirror array 11 meters across, The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) gathers twenty-five times as much light as any existing African [...]
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Sun’s Heat Clouds
Published on 11 Jun 2010 at 07:00.
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Friday 11th June 2010
Prominence (Click here for enlarge image for the scale size.)
A heat cloud of matter escaping from the Sun then returning into the Sun’s surface – 60,000 K.
The flame – Prominence erupts that can reach heights of up to 450,000 miles in just one hour.
All prominences have spectra showing lines of neutral hydrogen, [...]
Comet McNaught (C/2009 R1)
Published on 10 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 10th June 2010
Comet McNaught
It was taken by on June 6th 2010 using an 8-inch telescope. The Comet’s green atmosphere is larger than the Jupiter, while the tail stretches more a million miles, so bring a telescope to catch Comet C/2009 R1 (McNaught) low in the east, because we rarely see a good comet when [...]
