Warren De la Rue (18 January 1815 - 19 April 1889) was a British astronomer and chemist, most famous for his pioneering work in astronomical photography. Read more
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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Sonic boom shakes north east It's not often that journalists are at the scene of a story when it actually happens, usually we are following up the story at a later point. But yesterday by sheer coincidence, I happened to be in the border town of Berwick-on-Tweed at approximately 3.15pm. [url=http://...
Commuters coming into Whitehorse, Yukon, on Thursday morning, saw a meteoroid streaked across the sky.
Witnesses saw a bright fireball streak west to east across the sky just north of the territorial capital at about 8:30 a.m.
"It was blue-white, neon-like and very bright, and lasted ab...
Orbital elements:
2011 YH40 Earth MOID = 0.0124 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 14.84328 (2000.0) P Q
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Aberdeen Astronomical Society will meet on the front lawn at Crathes Castle from 7pm-8.30pm, 23rd November, 2010. There will be a range of telescopes available for you to use. Entry is free.
Just a reminder to say that on Wednesday, NASA will announce new findings related to short gamma-ray bursts .
Since the 1980s, the two most popular theories of the origin of gamma-ray bursts postulated stupendous explosions at gigantic distances, either from a supernova caused by the...
Derek Heatly set to become Northern Ireland's first spaceman He has already made it to the very edge of Earth's atmosphere. And now Co Down man Derek Heatly is hoping to be the first Ulsterman in space as he joins the likes of racing champion Lewis Hamilton and scientific legend Stephen Hawking on the V...
Data on 'Konotori' space freighter possibly leaked in virus attack on JAXA A Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) computer has been infected with a virus, leading to a possible leak of data on its H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) -- the craft popularly known as Konotori that hauls cargo for the Inte...
Supraglacial lakes Satellite images have revealed a sequence of lakes on top of the George VI ice shelf in Antarctica moving along the boundary of the ice shelf with Alexander Island. It was observed when LaBarbera and MacAyeal analysed satellite images of the George VI ice shelf in Antarctica take...
When stars like our sun die, they bloat to become red giants and then eject gigantic clouds of gas and dust into space. Increasingly, however, scientists found themselves at a profound loss to explain how exactly dying stars could blow away these clouds. Now astrophysicists propose that unexpecte...
Orbital elements:
2012 AT10 Earth MOID = 0.3595 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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Mars Images lets you browse the latest images from the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover. Scroll through the thumbnails of the latest downlink from Mars and view any image in fullscreen mode. Read more
Sunspots 11395, 11391 and 11393. Expand (146kb, 560 x 560)Credit: SOHO/MDI Sunspot 11395 (right) captured with a Vista pro webcam and 100mm refractor. Baader solar filter + light Yellow + IR-cut filter 2X achromatic Barlows. [video=htt...
Mare Imbrium captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Light yellow filter + IR-cut filter Observing conditions: Good but Moon halo Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lun...
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