... In the special year of IYA 2009, on Wednesday 22 July 2009, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. ... Since the weather conditions in this region on July 22 are very hard to forecast, the Chinese Astronomical Society , the host of IYA 2009 in China, is organising a large scale live broadcast program for the eclipse event. ... Tuesday, 21 July 2009 21:17 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

A completely new possibility of Fortran 90 is recursion. Note that it requires that you give a new property RESULT for the output variable in the function declaration. ... Here follows two examples, first recursive calculation of the factorial, then recursive calculations of the Fibonacci-numbers. ... The listings of the routines follow, the output variables are called FAC_RESULT and FIBO_RESULT , respectively. ... Not only functions but also subroutines can be recursive. ...