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The 38 - 86 metre wide asteroid 2008 EE will make a close pass (61.6-lunar distances, 0.1584-AU), travelling at 9.41-km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th March, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dista...

NASA Announces Aeronautics Research Institute NASA's Ames Research Centre will host a virtual institute to solicit and foster innovative ideas that address technological challenges facing aviation and the U.S. air transportation system today and in the future. Jaiwon Shin, NASA's associat...

Orbital elements: 2012 FY13 Earth MOID = 0.1151 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 357.16484 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29555268 Peri. 193.66405 -0.99989979 +0.01406127 a 2.2320956 Node 347.14129 -0.01219703 -0.91451807 e 0.5019498 Incl. 0.42244 -0.00718638 -0.40430060 P 3.33 H 24.5...

Experts help unlock stone's secret past A stone at the popular tourist site Gardom's Edge in the Derbyshire Peak District may in fact be a 4,000 year old seasonal sundial, experts suggest. Academics in astronomy and landscape history from Nottingham Trent University will present the findings fro...

The largest tear in the Earth's crust seen in decades, if not centuries, could carve out a new ocean in Africa, according to satellite data. Geologists say a crack that opened up last year may eventually reach the Red Sea, isolating much of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest of Africa. [img]h...

Hollows inside the Raditladi impact basin Expand (347kb, 1024 x 768) Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. In a series of papers published this week in Science, NASA researchers highlighted "strange hollows" foun...

18th-century bone telescopes discovered Scientists have unearthed five bone-made instruments dating to the 18th century which they say are finely crafted telescopes that may have been used to gaze at objects on land or sea. Ranging in length from roughly three to five inches, the telescopes -- d...

NASA Rocket Launch Scheduled March 15 NASA is scheduled to launch five suborbital sounding rockets in just over five minutes March 15 from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. Based on the approved range schedule, the launch window for March 15 is between 0...

HMS Scylla (F71) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). In 1992 HMS Scylla, with the Commanding Officer, Officers and Members of the Ships Company in attendance, was granted the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen. On the 27 March 20...

Royal Observatory telescope to be relocated to Canterbury A telescope from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh is to be given to a Kent astronomical society. The ROE Grubb Parsons telescope, which has a half-metre aperture, was built to train students at Edinburgh University. The university is u...

Title: Dynamical analysis and constraints for the HD 196885 system Authors: C. A. Giuppone, M. H. M. Morais, G. Boué, A. C. M. Correia The HD196885 system is composed of a binary star and a planet orbiting the primary. The orbit of the binary is fully constrained by astrometry, but for the planet the in...

Title: Dense gas in IRAS 20343+4129: an ultracompact HII region caught in the act of creating a cavity Authors: F. Fontani, Aina Palau, G. Busquet, A. Isella, R. Estalella, A. Sanchez-Monge, P. Caselli, Q. Zhang The intermediate- to high-mass star-forming region IRAS 20343+4129 is an excellent l...

Title: SMA and Spitzer Observations of Bok Glouble CB17: A Candidate First Hydrostatic Core? Authors: Xuepeng Chen (1), Hector G. Arce (1), Michael M. Dunham (1), Qizhou Zhang (2), Tyler L. Bourke (2), Ralf Launhardt (3), Markus Schmalzl (3), Thomas Henning (3) ((1) Yale Astronomy Department, (2...

Orbital elements: 2012 FK35 Earth MOID = 0.2322 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 263.68673 (2000.0) P Q n 0.55051574 Peri. 303.11184 +0.72355028 +0.66536867 a 1.4744257 Node 17.71645 -0.22985260 +0.48323266 e 0.5917591 Incl. 37.14192 -0.65087846 +0.56900854 P 1.79 H 18.1...

Orbital elements: 2012 FL35 Earth MOID = 0.1589 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 298.39322 (2000.0) P Q n 0.54696512 Peri. 327.67521 +0.92843777 +0.36622099 a 1.4807996 Node 11.36746 -0.23620557 +0.71147270 e 0.7421800 Incl. 18.43649 -0.28672327 +0.59974060 P 1.80 H 19.6...