Stargazers, Boy Scouts plan to set up Mount Potosi observatory In a city famous for its nighttime glare, an organisation that sounds like a contradiction in terms wants to build a new observatory and inspire the next generation of stargazers. The Las Vegas Astronomical Society plans to partner wit...
Title: Internal Gravity Waves Modulate the Apparent Misalignment of Exoplanets around Hot Stars Authors: T. M. Rogers, D. N. C. Lin, H. H. B. Lau We propose that the observed misalignment between extra-solar planets and their hot host stars can be explained by angular momentum transport within th...
Astrobiology consortium supported for additional five years With the help of a new grant from NASA, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are guiding the search for signs of life on distant planets - while keeping their feet firmly planted on Earth. The Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Co...
Orbital elements: 2009 XH8 Earth MOID = 0.0916 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 6.04773 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33473033 Peri. 1.43670 +0.15926152 -0.98366773 a 2.0543416 Node 79.40448 +0.90491866 +0.11149404 e 0.4762330 Incl. 4.89449 +0.39466187 +0.14130420 P 2.94 H 23.1 G 0.15 U 8 [url=ht...
The 55 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2001 QJ142 will make a close pass (74.3 lunar distances, 0.1909 AU), travelling at 8.46 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd March, 2012 @ 01:20 UT ±05:41. See moreThe Lunar Dis...
Orbital elements: 2009 WB105 Earth MOID = 0.0386 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 251.04794 (2000.0) P Q n 1.31460420 Peri. 347.62253 -0.59816028 +0.58133475 a 0.8252890 Node 242.63566 -0.67207479 -0.73880490 e 0.2525079 Incl. 38.39589 -0.43648568 +0.34090648 P 0.75 H 23.4 G 0.15 U...
Title: Gamma-Ray Emission from the Shell of Supernova Remnant W44 Revealed by the Fermi LAT Authors: A.A. Abdo et al. (Fermi LAT Collaboration) Recent observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) hint that they accelerate cosmic rays to energies close to ~1015 eV. However, the nature of the particl...
Cold mirror makes hot astrophotos a snap While nearly everyone enjoys a good astrophoto, the precision with which the astrograph (the telescope taking the photograph) must follow the stars is not widely appreciated. To take a good astrophoto of any but the brightest objects requires following th...
Dr. Tanyu Bonev: About 10 000 people visited Rozhen Observatory in 2009 Dr. Tanyu Bonev, director of the National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen, in an interview with Radio Smolyan - Focus Read more Latitude: 41° 41' 35'' Longitud...
Orbital elements: 2009 LS PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0496 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 194.32633 (2000.0) P Q n 0.67815823 Peri. 183.42435 +0.25079368 -0.66929797 a 1.2830651 Node 253.12268 +0.90462127 +0.41923766 e 0.2701987 Incl. 46.95912 +0.34461992 -0.61341667 P 1.45 H 17.6 G 0.1...
Orbital elements:
2012 VC6 Earth MOID = 0.0660 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 337.48504 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.33254575 Peri. 67.94876 +0.23258246 -0.97253432
a 2.0633289 Node 8.61711 +0.86849794 +0.20348335
e 0.5046634 Incl. 3.47322 +0.43774047 +0.11301114
P 2.96 H 24.9 G 0....
Title: CFBDSIR2149-0403: a 4-7 Jupiter-mass free-floating planet in the young moving group AB Doradus ? Authors: P. Delorme, J. Gagné, L. Malo, C. Reylé, E. Artigau, L. Albert, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, F. Allard, D. Homeier Using the CFBDSIR wide field survey for brown dwarfs, we identified CFB...
Title: Variable stars in NGC 457 Authors: D. Modzierski, A. Pigulski, G. Kopacki, M. Stlicki, Z. Koaczkowski We present preliminary results of the photometric variability search in the field of view of the young open cluster NGC 457. We find over 60 variable stars in the field, including 25 pulsati...
Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (born November 14, 1933) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 humans to have flown to the Moon. Having flown on Apollo 13, Haise was to be the sixth human to walk on the Moon, but the mission did not land due to a failure aboard the spacecraft. Read m...
