The Baton Rouge Astronomical Society invites you once again to join us in the piney woods of west-central Louisiana to share a few nights of stargazing and camaraderie. We are very excited about our site. With the cooperation of the Louisiana Office of State Parks and the A.J. and Nona Trigg Hodges Fo...
Astronomers have found the most Sun-like star yet, and they say it is an ideal place to hunt for alien civilisations. The star, called HIP 56948, lies a little more than 200 light years from Earth. Its size, mass, temperature, and chemical makeup are all so similar to the Sun's that no measurable diffe...
Orbital elements: 2009 XG8 Earth MOID = 0.0879 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 234.57307 (2000.0) P Q n 0.69388972 Peri. 155.30695 -0.74606790 +0.18058850 a 1.2635984 Node 52.95770 -0.66117199 -0.31504504 e 0.2857739 Incl. 53.41350 +0.07895752 -0.93173731 P 1.42 H 19.2 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Orbital elements:
2012 GP1 Earth MOID = 0.0219 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 332.68980 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.56301869 Peri. 26.11125 -0.73366016 +0.67936393
a 1.4525157 Node 196.70802 -0.63188590 -0.68987627
e 0.2983889 Incl. 2.87139 -0.24992594 -0.25007073
P 1.75 H 26.1 G 0...
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS (13 April 1892 - 5 December 1973) is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". (The hyphenated name is used herein for consistency, although this was not adopted until he was knighted in 1942.) Development of radar, initially nam...
Title: A Nearby Old Halo White Dwarf Candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Authors: Patrick B. Hall (York U.), Piotr M. Kowalski (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum), Hugh C. Harris (USNO), Akshay Awal (Emery Collegiate Institute and York U.), S. K. Leggett (Gemini), Mukremin Kilic (Ohio State U.), S...
Westar 1 was America's first domestic and commercially-launched geostationary communications satellite, launched by Western Union and NASA on April 13, 1974. It was built by Hughes for Western Union, using the HS-333 platform of spin-stabilised satellites. Read more
Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA human experimentation program, run by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the early 1950s, continued at least through the late 1960s, and used U.S. and Canadian citizens as its...
The Transit 1B satellite was successfully launched April 13, 1960, by a Thor-Ablestar rocket. The TRANSIT system, also known as NAVSAT (for Navy Navigation Satellite System), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally. Read more
Cambodian New Year or Chaul Chnam Thmey in the Khmer language, literally "Enter Year New", is the name of the Cambodian holiday that celebrates the New Year. The holiday lasts for three days beginning on New Year's day, which usually falls on April 13 or 14th, which is the end of the harves...
I.M. Chait's Natural History Sales is scheduled to auction off a number of beyond-ancient relics on May 6, including a Triceratops baby skull valued at an estimated $80,000. The auction house also has a number of meteorites and pieces of jewellery that have been crafted from meteorites up for sale....
Title: A VLBI Search for the Origin of Wobbling in Blazar Jets Authors: I. Agudo (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Granada, Spain) An increasing number of blazars have been reported to show jet wobbling (i.e., non-regular rotations of the structural position angle of their innermos...
The dwarf nova HL Canis Majoris is in outburst. Date: 2008 11 17 Magnitude: 10 - 14.5 V Period: 15 days Satellite period: 0.216787 days Type: UGSSPosition(2000): RA=06h45m17.22s, Dec=-16°51'34.7"
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