Sentences with phrase «oldest recorded observation»

That would make it the oldest recorded observation of a nova.

Not exact matches

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

That glimpse into the past was provided by 66 tree - ring data sets scientists used to stitch together an annual record of snowpack far older than modern observations, which began in the early 20th century.

Fetterer — who recently wrote a guest article for Carbon Brief on piecing together a record of Arctic sea ice back to 1850 — also says the study highlights how important it is to find and preserve old observations:

The term «guest star» is used in the context of ancient records, since the exact classification of an astronomical event in question is based on interpretations of old records, including inference, rather than on direct observations.

The measurements for the Earth's motions come from a variety of space - based measurements including satellites, like those in the Global Positioning System (GPS), the geodetic satellites that included records from NASA's older LAGEOS satellite, and observations of distant astronomical objects using a technique known as Very Long Baseline Interferometry.

MMTS (at least the ones used by co-op stations) do not record hourly temperatures and provide a daily min / max value that needs to be reset at the observation time just like old LiG min / max thermometers.