The Northridge earthquake was a massive earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 04:31 Pacific Standard Time in Reseda, a neighbourhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, lasting for about 10-20 seconds. Read more
Kyrill was the name given to a low pressure area that evolved into an unusually violent European windstorm, forming an extratropical cyclone with hurricane-strength winds. It formed over Newfoundland on 15 January 2007 and moved across the Atlantic Ocean reaching Ireland and Great Britain by th...
A team of researchers and collaborators from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences in Tucson has successfully conducted the first test flight of a prototype science instrument for a next-generation satellite mission t...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid in honour of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Asteroid 271763 Hebrewu (2004 SO26) was discovered on Sept. 17 2004 by Tom Glinos from Canada and David Levy and Wendee Levy from Arizona.
Light from the Darkness An evocative new image from ESO shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. The new picture was taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chi...
Nathaniel Pigott (1725-1804) was an English astronomer, noted for his observations of eclipses, a transit of Venus and a transit of Mercury, and comets. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society on 16 January 1772, a foreign member of the Imperial Academy at Brussels in 1773, and a correspondent of the...
Russia Launches Three Military Satellites Russia has launched three Cosmos series military-purpose satellites, the Aerospace Defence Forces spokesman said on Tuesday. A Rokot launch vehicle carrying the satellites successfully lifted off from the Plesetsk Space Centre in northern Russia,...
Canada's robot begins 1st satellite refuelling job The Canadian-built robot handyman aboard the International Space Station is attempting to demonstrate for the first time that a machine can carry out the delicate task of refuelling a satellite in orbit. The robot - known as Dextre, short for Spe...
New Sunspots Producing Space Weather On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later. [url=http://...
There are concerns the visitors' centre at Coonabarabran's Siding Springs Observatory will close at the end of the month. The Australian National University's (ANU) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics is withdrawing from the centre and had planned to call for expressions of interest...
A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 12:20:04 (UTC) on Thursday, December 22, 2005, near the Pacific Antarctic Ridge.
Location 54.620°S, 136.070°W
Orbital elements:
2012 UW68 Earth MOID = 0.0251 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 270.22919 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.81424614 Peri. 101.67396 -0.47569560 -0.87952289
a 1.1357923 Node 16.74765 +0.78937170 -0.43306007
e 0.1551824 Incl. 2.46166 +0.38807991 -0.19722692
P 1.21 H 25.0...
Kumbh Mela festival: Preparing for millions The 55-day Maha or Great Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad is expected to be the biggest religious gathering of humanity on Earth, with up to 100 million pilgrims bathing in the holy waters in January and February. The "mega mela" takes place ev...
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