* Astronomy

The 91 - 200 metre wide asteroid 2002 KM3 will make a close pass (45.2 Lunar Distances, 0.1162 AU), travelling at 13.79 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distanc...

Orbital elements: 2012 HZ33 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0010 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 272.37476 (2000.0) P Q n 0.74768465 Peri. 230.99970 +0.21872183 +0.91732668 a 1.2022379 Node 54.88309 -0.72127803 +0.38160825 e 0.2127760 Incl. 23.99788 -0.65720527 -0.11352051 P 1.32 H...

Sunspot 11486 and some feature on the Suns eastern limb captured with a 80mm refractor and Vesta Pro webcam + Solar filter + IR cut filter. Sunspots 11486 (left), 11484 and 11482 (r...

Title: An Interface for the Virtual Observatory of the University of Guanajuato Authors: René A. Ortega-Minakata (1), Juan P. Torres-Papaqui (1), Heinz Andernach (1), Hermenegildo Fernández-Santos (2) ((1) Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Guanajuato, (2) Maestría en Medios Inte...

Date: May 22-24, 2012 Northwoods Resort in Big Bear Lake, CA. http://www.SocAstroSci.org

Sunspot 11486 and some feature on the Suns eastern limb captured with a 80mm refractor and Vesta Pro webcam + Solar filter + IR cut filter. Quite pleased with this capture as it was through a light grey sky, with the solar disk visible to the nak...

Venus Express unearths new clues to the planet's geological history ESA's Venus Express has been used to study the geology in a region near Venus' equator. Using near-infrared observations collected by the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC), scientists have found evidence that the planet's rugged...

Orbital elements: 2006 BH Earth MOID = 0.3972 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 6.57704 (2000.0) P Q n 0.16879296 Peri. 249.18526 -0.85608815 +0.30565386 a 3.2426482 Node 306.15090 +0.02184321 -0.78425902 e 0.6441418 Incl. 31.07321 -0.51636804 -0.53991991 P 5.84 H 18.3 G 0....

Orbital elements: 2010 XG11 Earth MOID = 0.3544 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 263.13385 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46360687 Peri. 87.86543 +0.86913423 +0.27317579 a 1.6533678 Node 256.07723 -0.40172933 +0.87617217 e 0.3137463 Incl. 25.13588 +0.28847745 +0.39711121 P 2.13 H 20.0...

A rare meteor appears in the north west sky The skies in the north west were alight on Saturday night. We've had a couple of reports of giant orange things dropping from the sky. Read more

**Annular Eclipse May 20, 2012**

Annular Eclipse May 20, 2012

Astrochemist Markus Hammonds (aka Invader Xan) has made a nice graphic over on Supernova Condensate showing the relative sizes of a bunch of spacecraft. Read more

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21, 1921 - December 14, 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Read more

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis (21 May 1792 - 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference. Read more

Title: The Chandra Deep Protocluster Survey: Ly-alpha Blobs are powered by heating, not cooling Authors: J. E. Geach (1), D. M. Alexander (1), B. D. Lehmer (1), Ian Smail (1), Y. Matsuda (1), S. C. Chapman (2), C. A. Scharf (3), R. J. Ivison (4), M. Volonteri (5), T. Yamada (6), A. W. Blain (7), R. G. Bowe...