Namibian authorities discovered a weird-looking metallic sphere in a patch of grasslands located about 750 kilometers (480 miles) away from the capital Windhoek. The object is hollow, and made up of two pieces of metal welded together. Experts had a very tough time determining what it is.
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23 December 2011
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Each year sees about 20 meteor showers occurring all around the world, of which a select few are easily visible in the night sky. For December, the Geminid shower is the most famous, but it's not the only one. Late December always sees the peak of the Ursid meteor shower, which will occur tonight.
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22 December 2011
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The geological record shows that our planet experienced a period of low temperatures some 12,900 years ago. This time frame has been dubbed the Ice Age, and experts have believed for a long time that it was caused by a meteorite, or other space rock, slamming into Earth. However, new evidence appear to indicate that ... |
26 July 2010
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Mission planners at NASA are currently in doubt whether the space shuttle Atlantis will be able to launch on November 12, as originally planned. Apparently, the increased space traffic, incoming meteor showers, and a very narrow launch window may force officials to either delay the launch, or move it to next year alt... |
6 October 2009
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A number of captains, sailing their ships in the crowded waters of the English Channel on Monday night, signaled to the coastguard services in France and the United Kingdom, saying that they noticed warning flares in the night sky. The lights, they reported, were either white or bright green, and they urged authoriti... |
16 June 2009
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Experts at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) recently argued that the meteors that rained down on our planet approximately 3.9 billion years ago did not cause early life on Earth to disappear, and then reappear later. They said that, regardless of the fact that some of these meteor were the size of Kansas, ... |
23 May 2009
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From time to time, brief streaks of light may appear, moving rapidly across the night sky and disappearing just as quickly. We generally call these luminous phenomena 'shooting stars'; however, they have nothing in common with stars, except maybe a slight resemblance. In fact, shooting stars are meteoroids ... |
10 April 2008
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