On behalf of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, Dr Matt Perkins, CEO has issued the following statement. I am deeply shocked and saddened to confirm that one of SSTL's long-term contractors, Saad Al-Hilli, has been formally identified as one of the victims of the shootings which occurred in the Fren...
Title: Detection of X-ray periodicity from a new eclipsing polar candidate XGPS-I J183251-100106 Authors: C. Y. Hui (1), K. A. Seo (1), C. P. Hu (2), L. C. C. Lin (3), Y. Chou (2) ((1) Chungnam National University, (2) National Central University, (3) China Medical University) We report the results...
Title: Centimetre continuum observations of the northern head of the HH 80/81/80N jet: revising the actual dimensions of a parsec scale jet Authors: Josep M. Masqué, Josep M. Girart, Robert Estalella, Luis F. Rodríguez, Maria T. Beltrán We present 6 and 20 cm JVLA/VLA observations of the northern...
Title: Are 3C249.1 and 3C334 restarted quasars? Authors: Andrzej Marecki This Research Note follows up a Letter in which I posit that J1211+743 is a restarted radio source. This means that its structure, where the jet points to the relic lobe, is only apparently paradoxical. Here, I propose the sam...
Title: Discovery of an active supermassive black hole in the bulge-less galaxy NGC 4561 Authors: C.Araya Salvo, S. Mathur, H. Ghosh, F. Fiore, L. Ferrarese We present XMM-Newton observations of the Chandra-detected nuclear X-ray source in NGC 4561. The hard X-ray spectrum can be described by a mo...
Rare Pallasite Meteorite Discovered in Crawford County, Ohio A Pallasite Meteorite was discovered in Crawford County, Ohio. The meteorite weighs 59 pounds. It was discovered in a farm field while they were laying new field tile. Recently, the farmer brought the meteorite to Lowe Volk Park at a mon...
Gazelles caught in ancient Syrian 'killing zones' Hundreds of migrating gazelles would be funnelled into enclosures where they could be butchered en masse. This was the practice of communities living some 6,000 years ago in what is now north-eastern Syria. Archaeologists say they have unearthe...
Senegal floods unearth ancient artefacts Heavy rainfall and floods in the Senegalese capital Dakar have unearthed treasures believed to date back several thousands of years, university researchers said on Monday. According to researchers affiliated with Dakar's Cheikh Anta Diop University...
Questions over Chinese satellites 'to monitor sea' A UK scientist has questioned China's plans to send eight satellites into space to monitor the ocean around the country. The nation already has three maritime satellites in orbit. Prof John Walker of the Nottingham Trent University said adding e...
Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, Cape Verde-type hurricane that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The cyclone was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. Ivan formed in early Septem...
Asteroid 2008 EV5 was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Survey on the 4th March 2008. The (H=19.8) 310 - 700 metre wide asteroid will flyby the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd December, 2008, by 8.4 lunar distances (0.0216 AU). The maximum predicted brightness is magnitude 13.Orbital and Physical Charact...
Title: A planetary companion around the K giant eps Corona Borealis Authors: Byeong-Cheol Lee, Inwoo Han, Myeong-Gu Park, David E. Mkrtichian, Kang-Min Kim Aims. Our aim is to search for and study the origin of the low-amplitude and long-periodic radial velocity (RV) variations in K giants. Meth...
The British Science Festival The 2009 British Science Festival is underway. Our Gossip Girl Sue Nelson will be sending us the latest scientific titbits in her daily reporter's log. You can also catch Sue each evening in Guildford as she reviews all the goings on in the X-Change, a regular and very pop...
