Bay Area Rapid Transit celebrates 40 years of service Bay Area Rapid Transit celebrates 40 years of service. On September 11, 1972, the first route to open began running on the Oakland - Fremont line from MacArthur to Fremont stations. Read more
NASA's New 'Earth Now' App: Your World, Unplugged A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands. "Earth Now" immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's fleet of Earth science satelli...
The Russian orbital space group will have more than 70 spacecraft by 2015 under to a draft federal space program for 2006-2015, an official from the Federal Space Agency said.
According to the official, there are currently 33 spacecraft in the orbital group.
The program, which will be discusse...
Title: IRAS 01202+6133 : A Possible Case of Protostellar Collapse Triggered by a Small HII Region Authors: Sung-Ju Kang, C.R.Kerton We present an analysis of HCO+ (J=3-2) and H13CO+ (J=3-2) observations of the massive (M ~ 20 solar masses) submm/IR source IRAS 01202+6133 located on the periphery...
Title: SDSS 0956+5128: A Broad-line Quasar with Extreme Velocity Offsets Authors: Charles L. Steinhardt (1), Malte Schramm (1), John D. Silverman (1), Rachael Alexandroff (2), Peter Capak (3), Francesca Civano (4), Martin Elvis (4), Dan Masters (5,6), Bahram Mobasher (5), Petchara Pattaraki...
Orbital elements:
2008 QU3 Earth MOID = 0.0639 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 150.41051 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.21649379 Peri. 241.23538 -0.97447130 +0.09703382
a 0.8690861 Node 303.64104 +0.02018176 -0.86026842
e 0.2478342 Incl. 14.07479 -0.22360318 -0.50052241
P 0.81 H 20....
Title: Photometric study of the short-period RS CVn eclipsing binary DV Psc Authors: Qingfeng Pi, Liyun Zhang, Zhongmu Li, Hongyan Sang, Zhongzhong Zhu We present our new photometry of DV Psc obtained in 2010 and 2011, and new spectroscopic observation on Feb. 14, 2012. During our observations, t...
Lightcurves of 20--100 kilometre Kuiper Belt Objects using the Hubble Space TelescopeAuthors: David E. Trilling, Gary M. Bernstein
Researchers report high precision photometry of three small and one larger Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) obtained with the Advanced Camer...
Amazing sun photos taken by Kent amateur astronomer When they were first seen it was thought they'd been taken by NASA - in fact they were recorded by a Kent astronomer in his back garden. They show the sun as very few have ever seen it before. Iain McBride speaks to astronomer and photographer Paul Andr...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) conducted a nickname campaign for the first Quasi-Zenith Satellite (QZS-1) between October 16 (Fri.) and December 16 (Wed.), 2009, to familiarise people with the satellite. Among many suggestions, "MICHIBIKI" was selected as the nick...
Robert Laurel Crippen (born September 11, 1937 in Beaumont, Texas) is an engineer, retired United States Navy Captain and a former NASA astronaut. He flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including three as commander. Read more
Gherman Stepanovich Titov (September 11, 1935 - September 20, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on August 6, 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. Read more
Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLD (11 September 1877 - 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician. Read more
Noggin the Nog is a popular British children's character appearing in his own TV series (of the same name) and series of illustrated books, the brainchild of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. The TV series is considered a 'cult classic' from the golden age of British children's television. The orig...
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