NASA Announces Next Opportunity for Cubesat Space Missions NASA has announced a second opportunity for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned to launch in 2011 and 2012. These CubeSats could be auxiliary cargo on previously planned missions. CubeSats are a class of research spacecra...
Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa, an earlier-origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month...
Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 - January 27, 1967), Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, was a Naval Aviator, aeronautical engineer and a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Read more
The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. Impr...
Title: Cosmic Explosions (Optical Transients) Authors: S. R. Kulkarni This paper is an extended summary of the talk I gave at IAU Symposium "New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy" (Oxford, 2011). I first review the history of transients (which is intimately related to the advent of wid...
Title: A revised asteroid polarization-albedo relationship using WISE/NEOWISE data Authors: Joseph R. Masiero, A. K. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. M. Bauer, E. L. Wright, R. S. McMillan, D. J. Tholen, A. W. Blain We present a reanalysis of the relationship between asteroid albedo and polarisation proper...
Meteorite found by ex-CSC professor to go in display A large meteorite discovered near Bayard by the late Dr. Art Struempler while he was on the science faculty at Chadron State College will be the centrepiece of an exhibit that will open Saturday, Feb. 24 in the Cooper Gallery of Morrill Hall at the Un...
NASA's budget request for fiscal year 2007 includes postponement or abandonment of several key space-exploration programs, including the James Webb Space Telescope, which is intended as a partial replacement for the aging Hubble, and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, the giant telescope expect...
Carbon monoxide in the cosmos mapped for the first time The Planck space telescope was designed to look at the background glow in the cosmos in an effort to understand how it formed. Coincidentally, scientists have found, it can help spot star-forming regions where carbon monoxide glows brightly d...
Title: SN 2006oz: rise of a super-luminous supernova observed by the SDSS-II SN Survey Authors: G. Leloudas, E. Chatzopoulos, B. Dilday, J. Gorosabel, J. Vinko, A. Gallazzi, J. C. Wheeler, B. Bassett, J. Fischer, J. A. Frieman, J. P. U. Fynbo, A. Goobar, M. Jelinek, D. Malesani, R. C. Nichol, J. Nord...
Title: The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores: I: First Direct Detection of the Embedded Source in IRAM 04191+1522
Authors: M. M. Dunham, N. J. Evans II, T. L. Bourke, C. P. Dullemond, C. H. Young, T. Y. Brooke, N. Chapman, P. C. Myers, A. Porras, W. Spiesman, P. J. Teuben, Z. Wah...
Orbital elements:
2012 BJ134 Earth MOID = 0.1470 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 345.32733 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29073504 Peri. 136.88933 +0.24687075 +0.94845831
a 2.2566860 Node 145.93575 -0.95724660 +0.27058641
e 0.8341400 Incl. 20.77775 -0.15077722 -0.16495400
P 3.39 H 17...
Athenians can turn their eyes heavenward again - the University of Georgia's 24-inch telescope has been repaired, thanks to a handful of donors who came up with $500 to buy a replacement part. University astronomers soon can resume a full schedule of monthly open houses, when anyone interested can...
