Prehistory. 1  Chang, Kwang-chih. 2  Discovery of residue from fermented beverage consumed up to 9,000 years ago in Jiahu, Henan Province, China. 3  Zhu, Rixiang; Zhisheng An; Richard Potts; Kenneth A. Hoffman. 4  The Discovery of Early Pottery in China by Zhang Chi, Department of Archaeology, Peking University, China.
There are a couple of popular ways of specifying the location of a celestial object. The first is what you would probably use to point out a star to your friend: the altitude-azimuth system. The altitude of a star is how many degrees above the horizon it is (anywhere from 0 to 90 degrees). The azimuth of a star is how many degrees along the horizon it is and corresponds to the compass direction. Azimuth starts from exactly North = 0 degrees azimuth and increases clockwise: exactly East = 90 degrees, exactly South = 180 degrees, exactly West = 270 degrees, and exactly North = 360 degrees = 0 degrees.
Meteors flare about 12 kilometers up. If you've ever seen the northern or southern lights (auroral displays), those are about 90 kilometers (~55 miles) high. The International Space Station orbits between 330 and 410 kilometers (205-255 miles) above Earth's surface and well above the atmosphere.