Tellurium detected for the first time in ancient stars. Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the universe was made of only hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium - byproducts of the Big Bang. Some 300 million years later, the very first stars emerged, creating additional chemical elements throughout th...
Title: Surface Brightness Variation of the Contact Binary SW Lac: Clues From Doppler Imaging Authors: H.V. Senavc In this study, we present the preliminary light curve analysis of the contact binary SW Lac, using B, V light curves of the system spanning 2 years (2009 - 2010). During the spot modelli...
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a powerful natural event that severely damaged New Zealand's second-largest city, killing 185 people in what has been described as one of the nation's worst peacetime disasters. The magnitude 6.3 (ML) earthquake that struck the Canterbury region i...
The fossil record of life on earth, the science behind our Olympic hopefuls and the psychology behind governmental decision-making are just some of the highlights of Northumbrias events at the 2012 Newcastle Science Festival. Read more
Title: A double component in the prompt emission of GRB 090618 Authors: L. Izzo, R. Ruffini, A. V. Penacchioni, C. L. Bianco, M. Muccino, L. Caito, B. Patricelli, S. K. Chakrabarti, A. Nandi GRB 090618 offered an unprecedented opportunity to have coordinated data, by the best of the X and Gamma Ray ob...
Anniversary (1966) of the Kosmos 110 Launch, on the 22nd February, 2011. Kosmos 110 was a Soviet spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz rocket. It incorporated a re-entry body (capsule) for landing scientific instruments and test objects. It was a biological satellite t...
The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) was a 1632 Italian language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. It was translated to Latin as Systema cosmicum in 1635 by Matthias Berneg...
Astronomer sets sail for star-gazing Hebrides The dark skies of the Hebridean islands are beckoning Professor Martin Hendry who is set to hold a series of public lectures and star-gazing events next month. Martin, from the University of Glasgow's School of Physics and Astronomy will be undertaki...
The 53 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2002 EW8 will make a close pass (77.7 lunar distances, 0.1996 AU), travelling at 13.67 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th March, 2012 @ 11:03 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distan...
The 16 - 36 metre wide asteroid 2010 XA11 will make a close pass (65.2 lunar distances, 0.1676 AU), travelling at 7.87 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th March, 2012 @ 22:18 UT ±08:22. See moreThe Lunar Distan...
Orbital elements:
2000 DO1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0133 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 339.01634 (2000.0) P Q
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a 1.4301305 Node 336.03558 -0.88578426 +0.12280119
e 0.6817369 Incl. 3.45332 -0.43939287 +0.08853587
P 1.71 H 2...
More Tests Show GPS Interference From LightSquared's Network A new set of government tests showed that LightSquared's proposed mobile broadband network disrupted the signal strength to all GPS devices in the test area, dealing another setback to the company's startup plans.. [url=http://onl...
A tiny piece of rock taken from the moon during the last manned mission in 1972 is to be on display at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology beginning Thursday. Read more
Orbital elements: 2010 FN Earth MOID = 0.0008 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 198.96630 (2000.0) P Q n 1.00048948 Peri. 125.87800 +0.30388106 +0.95270974 a 0.9900589 Node 161.81282 -0.87479521 +0.27931169 e 0.2119590 Incl. 0.12486 -0.37734553 +0.11970438 P 0.99 H 26.7 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Orbital elements:
2012 CD29 Earth MOID = 0.1298 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 310.86614 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.94865974 Peri. 152.32407 +0.47127356 +0.86101007
a 1.0257993 Node 144.81224 -0.85806271 +0.49773837
e 0.6476913 Incl. 19.37932 -0.20403338 -0.10449003
P 1.04 H 19....
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