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NASA wants you ... to help find meteorites

The blazing meteor lit up the Alabama sky on May 18

This composite, wide-angle view of the meteor was captured from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on May 18. NASA has put out a call for any meteorites from the event.

NASA has launched an all-out search for any meteorites that may have survived from a bright fireball that streaked over northeastern Alabama last month. And the space agency wants your help.

The blazing meteor lit up the Alabama sky on May 18 and was spotted by all-sky cameras at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and the Walker County Science Center near Chickamauga, Ga.

Scientists estimate the space rock, which came from the asteroid belt, weighed about 60 pounds (27 kilograms), though it may have broken into pieces if any reached the ground.

"Expert opinion is that one or more pieces of this meteor survived to make it to the ground as meteorites, and calculations indicate that the area of the fall lies north of a line joining Woodville and Scottsboro," NASA officials said in a statement.

NASA is asking residents who saw the meteor, or those who may have noticed or picked up an unusual rock in the vicinity, to contact the Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

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Ernest Rutherford ( ATOM MAN)

The creator of modern atomic physics and forerunner of the nuclear age, Rutherford was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 and a baronetcy in 1931, choosing the title Baron Rutherford of Nelson. In the words of Einstein, hew was "a second Newton", the man who "tunneled into the very material of God": inventor, experimenter and Nelson farm boy.

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links to scientist biographies

1.  Archimedes	2.  Aristotle	3.  Nicholas Copernicus
4.  Marie Curie	5.  Charles Darwin	6.  Leonardo da Vinci
7.  Alexander Graham Bell	8.  Albert Einstein	9.  Ben Franklin
10.  Thomas Alva Edison	11.  Galilei Galileo	12.  Isaac Newton
13.  George Washington Carver	14.  Jacques Cousteau	15.  Frances Crick
16. Robert Koch	17.  Robert Hooke	18.  J. Robert Oppenheimer
19.  Alfred Nobel	20.  James D. Watson	21.  Gregor Mendel
22.  Stephen Hawking	23.  Konrad Lorenz	24.  Camillo Golgi
25.  Carl Sagan	26.  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov	27.  Alexander Fleming
28.  Bill Gates	29.  Jane Goodall	30.  Steven Jobs

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• http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Scients.htm  Alphabetical list of biographies of scientists

Aryabhatta (476-550 A.D.) The Indian Mathematician

Aryabhatta (476-550 A.D.) was born in Patliputra in Magadha, modern Patna in Bihar. Many are of the view that he was born in the south of India especially Kerala and lived in Magadha at the time of the Gupta rulers; time which is known as the golden age of India. There is no evidence that he was born outside Patliputra and traveled to Magadha, the centre of education and learning for his studies where he even set up a coaching centre. His first name "Arya" is hardly a south Indian name while "Bhatt" (or Bhatta) is a typical north Indian name even found today specially among the "Bania" (or trader) community.

Whatever this origin, it cannot be argued that he lived in Patliputra where he wrote his famous treatise the "Aryabhatta-siddhanta" but more famously the "Aryabhatiya", the only work to have survived. It contains mathematical and astronomical theories that have been revealed to be quite accurate in modern mathematics. For instance he wrote that if 4 is added to 100 and then multiplied by 8 then added to 62,000 then divided by 20,000 the answer will be equal to the circumference of a circle of diameter twenty thousand. This calculates to 3.1416 close to the actual value Pi (3.14159). But his greatest contribution has to be zero. His other works include algebra, arithmetic, trigonometry, quadratic equations and the sine table.

He already knew that the earth spins on its axis, the earth moves round the sun and the moon rotates round the earth. He talks about the position of the planets in relation to its movement around the sun. He refers to the light of the planets and the moon as reflection from the sun. He goes as far as to explain the eclipse of the moon and the sun, day and night, the contours of the earth, the length of the year exactly as 365 days.
He even computed the circumference of the earth as 24835 miles which is close to modern day calculation of 24900 miles.

This remarkable man was a genius and continues to baffle many mathematicians of today. His works was then later adopted by the Greeks and then the Arabs.

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Indian Scientists

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Aryabhatta defined the shape of Earth to be round in 499 A.D.,

Ancient Indian Scientists 

The ancient Indian people possessed great scientific knowledge which they applied for the benefit of community. The Vedic sciences are considered the richest and most comprehensive science of ancient India. The Vedic sciences include several branches like astronomy, medicine, space science, mathematics and there were numerous Indian scientists who studied and enhanced Vedic sciences. Aryabhatta, Charaka, Sushruta, Panini, etc. were some of the eminent scientists in the ancient era. While Aryabhatta defined the shape of Earth to be round in 499 A.D., Charaka and Sushruta largely contributed in the development of Ayurveda. On the other hand, Panini discovered the systematic linguistic analysis during the fourth-century B.C. These ancient Indian scientists have also given many mathematical and scientific explanations that can be proved using the current methods.


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