We report the results of a new large scale survey of the Orion-Monoceros complex of molecular clouds made in the J = 1 → 0 line of 12 CO with the Harvard-Smithsonian 1.2 m millimetre-wave telescope. The survey consists of 52 288 uniformly spaced spectra that cover an area of 432 deg 2 on the sky and represent the most sensitive large-scale survey of the region to date. Distances to the constitu...

Aspartic acid racemization rate in narwhal (Monodon monoceros) eye lens nuclei estimated by counting of growth layers in tusks Eva Garde, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Susanne Ditlevsen & Steen H. Hansen 1 Center for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5 7, DK-1350 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark 2 Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, PO Box 570, DK...

Meteorus Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is a cosmopolitan genus with around 340 species described, all koinobiont endoparasitoids of Coleoptera or Lepidoptera larvae, and several of its hosts are pest insects. Previously to this work only two species were described from Brazil, M. eaclidis Muesebeck and M. townsendi Muesebeck. Five new species of Meteorus are here described: M. atlanti...

The latest results of the QUEST survey for RR Lyrae stars are described. This survey, which is designed to find and characterize sub-structures in the halo of our Galaxy, has covered about 700 square degrees of the sky and has detected 693 RR Lyrae stars, most of which are new discoveries. The spatial distribution of the RR Lyrae stars reveals several interesting groups in the halo. Some of the...