Really fascinating. Even though I thought they had detected it when Dick Cheney was in the White House 
Has dark matter finally been detected?
Hunt may well be over for mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of mass of universe
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A computer simulation shows how invisible dark matter coalesces in halos (shown in yellow). Photograph: Science Photo Library |
For 80 years, it has eluded the finest minds in science. But tonight it appeared that the hunt may be over for dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of the mass of the universe. |
In a series of coordinated announcements at several US laboratories, researchers said they believed they had captured dark matter in a defunct iron ore mine half a mile underground. The claim, if confirmed next year, will rank as one the most spectacular discoveries in physics in the past century. |
Tantalising glimpses of dark matter particles were picked up by highly sensitive detectors at the bottom of the Soudan mine in Minnesota, the scientists said. Read more at www.guardian.co.uk |
| Everything from the concept of the black hole to GPS timing owes a debt to the theory of general relativity, which describes how gravity arises from the geometry of space and time. The sun’s gravitational field, for instance, bends starlight passing nearby because its mass is warping the surrounding space-time. TRead more at www.newscientist.com |
Makes me want to put on a pair of white overalls and visit the site, though I am not so sure I can run that fast anymore 
Amazing how these “sightings” seem to make headlines when new movies on aliens and alien abductions are due to hit the big screen. UFO alert: police officer sees aliens at crop circle |
A police officer contacted British UFO experts after seeing three aliens
examining a freshly made crop circle near Avebury, Wiltshire.
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However, as he approached the ‘men’ – all over 6ft tall with blond hair – he
heard “the sound of static electricity” and the trio ran away
”faster than any man he had ever seen”.
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The officer returned to his home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, and contacted
paranormal experts and told them he had spotted a UFO.
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Wiltshire Police has refused to comment on the incident, saying it is a
”personal matter” for the officer involved.
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Crop circle researcher Andrew Russell, who is investigating the bizarre
sighting on behalf of the officer, described the moment his sighting was
made.
Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk |
Darn it! The Russian’s are publicly using their StarGate. Putin and Medvedev must have gone off-world. What could they be up too? A partnership for gas rights with the Goa’uld or the Ori perhaps? “UFO halo” in the sky baffles Muscovites |
Millions of residents in Moscow witnessed a strange bright ring-shaped cloud hanging over the city’s western districts on Wednesday. |
Scientists from the city’s weather forecast service say there is nothing supernatural about it, however. |
| “It’s a purely optical effect, even if a spectacular one. You can see really strange things if you watch the clouds regularly,” |
| “Several air fronts have passed Moscow recently, including an inflow of cold air from Arctic, and they combined to produce such a phenomenon,”Read more at www.russiatoday.com |
You have to watch the video.
The one thing that could my attention was “Why didn’t we hear about it when discovered?…… other happenings/media making the news”.
This guy’s home observatory must really Rock! He is running a homebrew that uses Linux and some Linux based tools. The photos are incredible. The impact mark, if real - shall prove interesting. Impact mark on Jupiter, 19th July 2009 |
Dark impact mark first noted at approximately 1330UTC on 19th July 2009 from my home
observatory just outside Murrumbateman NSW Australia.
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| Update (20th July 1100UT) Glenn Orton from JPL has imaged this site using the NASA Infrared Telescope on Hawaii and
confirms that it is an impact site and not a localised weather event. |
I started this imaging session on Jupiter at approximately 11pm local time (1300UTC). The
weather prediction was not promising, clear skies but a strong jetstream overhead according
to the Bureau or Met. The temperature was also unusually high for this time of year (winter),
also a bad sign. |
The scope in use was my new 14.5″ newtonian, in use now for a few weeks and so far returning
excellent images. |
I was pleasantly surprised to find reasonable imaging conditions and so I decided to continue
recording data until maybe 1am local time. By 1am I was ready to quit, and indeed I had hovered
the mouse over the exit button on my capture application (Coriander for Linux) and then changed
my mind and decided to carry on for another half hour or so. It was a very near thing. |
I’d noticed a dark spot rotating into view in Jupiters south polar region and was starting
to get curious. When first seen close to the limb (and in poor conditions) it was only a vaguely
dark spot, I thouht likely to be just a normal dark polar storm. However as it rotated further
into view, and the conditions also improved, I suddenly realised that it wasn’t just
dark, it was black in all channels, meaning it was truly a black spot. Read more at jupiter.samba.org |
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Has dark matter finally been detected?
