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The 7th of August meeting of Nelson Astronomical Society (NAS) will be held at the Milton Room, Cawthron Institute, Milton Street and include a talk by NAS co-chair Hamish Barker on the subject of the global meteor network. The Global meteor network (GMN) consists of a worldwide network of 1920 cameras monitoring the night sky […]
There's a line Flat Earthers use when criticising our basic understandings about our world that seems to win people to their way of thinking: "if space is a vacuum, why doesn't it suck all our atmosphere into space?" This gets people imagining the need for some sort of crystal dome to hold our atmosphere in. […]
By studying World War I battlefields, Charles Gifford who was a teacher at Wellington College developed the theory that lunar craters were formed by impacts. At the conclusion of the war the favoured theory was the lunar craters were volcanic. Gifford used mathematics to explain how meteors gave rise to craters.