In the framework of the key program "TNOs Are Cool: A Survey of the Trans-Neptunian Region," Herschel will reveal the physical properties of the poorly known objects orbiting beyond Neptune. The Herschel Space Observatory, one of the cornerstone missions of the European Space Agency...
Title: The Low-Velocity, Rapidly Fading Type Ia Supernova 2002es Authors: Mohan Ganeshalingam, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Ryan Chornock, Ryan J. Foley, Thomas Matheson, Robert P. Kirshner, Peter Milne, Mike Calkins, Ken J. Shen SN 2002es is a peculiar subluminous...
Orbital elements:
2008 PF1 Earth MOID = 0.0076 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 56.70462 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.62140873 Peri. 284.10106 +0.59032901 -0.80631432
a 1.3600383 Node 129.65732 +0.75786176 +0.53791532
e 0.4946711 Incl. 2.75455 +0.27777187 +0.24597626
P 1.59 H 22.2 G 0...
Jupiter captured with a short focus 102mm Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Skywatcher Barlow lens. (plus a bit of info on the equipment i used to capture Jupiter tonight)
Title: HD 179949b: A Close Orbiting Extrasolar Giant Planet with a stratosphere? Authors: J.R. Barnes, Travis S. Barman, H.R.A. Jones, C.J. Leigh, A. Collier Cameron, R.J. Barber, D.J. Pinfield We have carried out a search for the 2.14 micron spectroscopic signature of the close...
Fabled equatorial icecaps will disappear within two decades, because of global warming, a study British and Ugandan scientists has found. In a paper to be published 17 May in Geophysical Research Letters, they report results from the first survey in a decade of glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains o...
Orbital elements:
2012 CP36 Earth MOID = 0.1401 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 13.43716 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31022995 Peri. 141.12486 -0.54119034 -0.83726168
a 2.1611267 Node 341.22890 +0.69810933 -0.39554522
e 0.5004228 Incl. 14.05370 +0.46878180 -0.37754053
P 3.18 H 21.9...
Orbital elements:
2012 CO36 Earth MOID = 0.0439 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 316.09762 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.84019231 Peri. 284.76247 -0.37036017 +0.91963694
a 1.1122871 Node 322.64655 -0.74760347 -0.37866498
e 0.3005407 Incl. 12.44693 -0.55129157 -0.10431075
P 1.17 H 25....
Ranger 8 was a spacecraft designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. Ranger 8 reached the Moon on February 20, 1965. The first image was taken at 9:34:32 UT at an altitude of 2510 km. T...
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honour of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, is a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from c...
Reports of spectacular "balls of fire" falling near Stirling Castle, Scotland have sparked a hunt for the crash sites of two meteors . If discovered, they would be the first meteorites confirmed to have landed in Scotland in almost 100 years. The incidents, reported by several witnesses, were on th...
Orbital elements: 2011 CP4 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0183 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 242.23445 (2000.0) P Q n 1.13981847 Peri. 158.91097 +0.61228153 +0.78658417 a 0.9076371 Node 148.68245 -0.74564028 +0.60811155 e 0.8572510 Incl. 8.85133 -0.26292947 +0.10717130 P 0.86 H 21.3 G 0.15...
Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaître ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaître continues the tradition of drawing on great European visionaries to...
