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Paleontologists love superlatives, otherwise the audience will not entice. From here, "the biggest", "the oldest", "the strongest and the most strange fossils.

Trojan called asteroids that are in the vicinity of the Lagrange points L4 and L5 this or that planet. With planets in orbits which they live, such asteroids form an equilateral triangle. Most such bodies Jupiter, although there are some in Neptune, Mars and Earth. The mystery of their origin scietists.

on 15 October 1997 the launch of the spacecraft Cassini. In the 15 years that have passed since then, he wrapped 6.1 billion km (that is, to fly around the Earth more than 152 thousand times) and by right is one of the most distinguished travellers machines.

Recently, scientists were able to discover in ekzoplanetoy system of the star Beta painter of the mineral olivine, which is often found in the composition of comets. That is, for the first time provided evidence of the existence of aksakal, which previously only intended. Interestingly, in this system there "comet depot" - cluster on the periphery, similar to the Kuiper belt.

A group of American scientists came to the conclusion that the most likely source of water trapped in the lunar soil, is the solar wind.

Internet users, participants "civic" astronomical project Planet Hunters together with astronomers professionals from Yale University for the first time in history has discovered a planet in the system of four stars, according to a paper accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal and posted in the electronic library of Cornell University.

On Sunday, the 43-year-old Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner broke the world record in high-altitude parachute jumping. Austrian rose to a height of 39 kilometers to the stratosphere, where, and jumped.

Global warming stopped 15 years ago - then stopped the growth of average annual temperature, says the report, prepared by the UK Meteorological Agency.

Rapid urbanization will inflict heavy damage to public health, if the officials responsible for planning and urban development, will not take into account measures to combat air pollution.

Experts of the Japanese National Observatory have found new evidence that life could be brought to Earth from space. The study of the Central part of the constellation Orion range of 1.5 thousand light years from our planet they found a vast area of special ultraviolet radiation, which twists exclusively in the left side of the amino acid molecules.

Lobsang Rampa - known personality not only in Tibet, but in the whole world. This Lama had the honor to visit the Holy of holies of Tibet - the circle under the temple, Potala. Here he came in contact with living Atlantes on the eve of 1927. Reached the highest stages of initiation, the Ramp own eyes for the first time in a mystical trance saw representatives of the legendary race, reigning on Earth to a certain disaster.

Teleportation - instant transfer of material objects from one point to another without visible application or participation of physical force. The conviction that such a phenomenon is possible and really exists in nature, has long been considered the lot of all kinds of mystics, and science until recently ignored the idea. In recent years about teleportation began in a low voice spoke, and in the scientific world, especially in the environment of nuclear physicists, and then only in connection with infinitely small particles of matter, which can be considered as intangible and therefore is not a barrier for instant move as microscopic scale.

Meteorites, as you know, are formed mainly in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, within the Solar system. The heavenly bodies. They arrived from the far corners of the galaxy is extremely rare and mysterious.

When nearly two centuries ago, the Frenchman Jean Francois Champollion published the first information about the pyramids in Egypt, hardly anyone of his contemporaries could assume that his secret these structures will be guarded, not less zealous than the neighboring ones Sphinx.

In may 1876 in the streets of a Chinese city Nanjing suddenly a terrible panic in the city appeared invisible demons and lost people traditional pigtails. In vain citizens closed head with his hands, trying to save her hair - it was all in vain. Panic spread to Shanghai, and then to other Chinese cities, where the invisible forces started to kill people in a dream. Mass hysteria lasted about three years, and all these years the mysterious "evil spirit, ringworm hair", was elusive meanwhile, this was not the first case of its occurrence - the documents testify, that "stealth cutting hair"knew in China in the era of the Wei dynasty (477-517 years before Mr. E.).