The 630 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2005 GQ21 will make a close pass (77.0 lunar distances, 0.1980 AU), travelling at 23.86 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th October, 2012 @ 16:54 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Luna...
Peruvian explorers have discovered the fossilized remains of a giant, 14 meter long crocodile deep in the Amazon jungle, lending credence to a theory that the world's largest rain forest was once a huge inland sea.
A French-funded expedition of 12 scientists found the remains of the crocodile...
Scientists discover surprise in Earth's upper atmosphere UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. The research, federally funded by the National Science Foundation, could improve the saf...
XMM-Newton has been surprised by a rare type of galaxy, from which it has detected a higher number of X-rays than thought possible. The observation gives new insight into the powerful processes shaping galaxies during their formation and evolution. Scientists working with XMM-Newton were look...
Maybe a meteorite, but not a helicopter Cape Town had its own "it's a bird! It's a plane!" moment when multiple reports that a helicopter had crashed off the coast of Blouberg on Friday night saw rescuers across the spectrum mobilised, only to turn up... nothing. [url=http://www.iol.co...
Title: WD0837+185:the formation and evolution of an extreme mass ratio white dwarf-brown dwarf binary in Praesepe Authors: S. L. Casewell, M. R. Burleigh, G. A. Wynn, R. D. Alexander, R. Napiwotzki, K. A. Lawrie, P. D. Dobbie, R. F. Jameson, S. T. Hodgkin There is a striking and unexplained dearth o...
Lot 49080 In 2005, nomads from the Sahara desert stumbled upon a profusion of small meteorites. Some were cut for analysis, and it was discovered they were geochemically and isotopically identical. It soon became clear to scientists that the meteorites shared a common origin, and it was the planet...
Planetarium raising funds for new telescope Sitting atop a hill on Westview Drive in Cedar City, Southern Utah University's Ashcroft Observatory has provided close-up views of deep-space objects to Southern Utah residents for more than 30 years. Recently, a broken telescope has obscured some o...
Title: A Note on Solar Cycle Length during the Medieval Climate Anomaly Authors: J. M. Vaquero, R. M. Trigo The growing interest in the "Medieval Climate Anomaly" (MCA) and its possible link to anomalous solar activity has prompted new reconstructions of solar activity based on cosmog...
Title: The Discovery of a Rare WO-type Wolf-Rayet Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud Authors: Kathryn F. Neugent, Philip Massey, Nidia Morrell While observing OB stars within the most crowded regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud, we happened upon a new Wolf-Rayet star in Lucke-Hodge 41, the rich...
Title: Discovery of an outflow of the very low-mass star ISO 143 Authors: V. Joergens, T. Kopytova, A. Pohl We discover that the very young very low-mass star ISO143 (M5) is driving an outflow based on spectro-astrometry of forbidden [SII] emission lines at 6716A and 6731A observed in UVES/VLT spec...
European rocket to launch on Sept 22 India's latest communication satellite GSAT-10 and the Astra 2F satellite are slated to be launched from Kourou in French Guiana on September 22. The satellites will be launched by European space consortium Arianespace's Ariane-5 rocket. [url=http://www.t...
'Cling film' space telescope to image Sun A space-based telescope that uses a thin plastic membrane as a lens is being developed by the United States Air Force. Called a photon sieve, it works by bending light through billions of tiny holes in the "cling film" style optic. The idea has been...
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