The 180 - 390 metre wide asteroid 2009 FY4 will make a close pass (28.8 Lunar Distances, 0.0739 AU), travelling at 13.04 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th February, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dista...
Orbital elements:
2011 WS95 Earth MOID = 0.0147 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 315.66070 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30668254 Peri. 250.05259 -0.56154747 -0.82725843
a 2.1777600 Node 234.12266 +0.76703342 -0.51247774
e 0.5645575 Incl. 1.24093 +0.31036135 -0.23023913
P 3.21 H 24.7...
Giant super-earths made of diamond are possible A planet made of diamonds may sound lovely, but you wouldn't want to live there. A new study suggests that some stars in the Milky Way could harbour "carbon super-Earths" - giant terrestrial planets that contain up to 50 percent diamond. Bu...
Title: Two long HI tails in the outskirts of Abell 1367 Authors: T. C. Scott, L. Cortese, E. Brinks, H. Bravo-Alfaro, R. Auld, R. Minchin We present VLA D-array HI observations of the RSCG42 and FGC1287 galaxy groups, in the outskirts of the Abell 1367 cluster. These groups are projected ~ 1.8 and 2.7 M...
New all-sky map shows magnetic fields at highest precision With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in collaboration with, among others, one of the ASTRON astronomers, have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field struc...
Man faces jail for demolishing ancient ring fort A Causeway man is facing a possible five-year jail term after he was prosecuted for demolishing an ancient ring fort on land belonging to his family. In the first case of its kind to be heard in an Irish Court, John O'mahony with an address at Clashmealco...
Ancient meat-loving predators survived for 35 million years A species of ancient predator with saw-like teeth, sleek bodies and a voracious appetite for meat survived a major extinction at a time when the distant relatives of mammals ruled the earth. A detailed description of a fossil that scient...
Snow in the Rockies, dry summers in the Southwest? New simulations of summer rains in the arid American Southwest show that they are influenced by the previous winter's snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. Summer rains, called "monsoons," are the predominant source of rain in eastern Ariz...
VLT Finds Fastest Rotating Star ESO's Very Large Telescope has picked up the fastest rotating star found so far. This massive bright young star lies in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160 000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers think that it may have had a violent past an...
Amateur astronomer wins £1million lottery A 41-year-old stargazer was today celebrating an astronomical £1million Lottery win. Paul Turton, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, vowed to use his winnings to buy a new house and a bigger telescope. [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A possible magnitude 16.9 supernova was discovered by E. Kankare, S. Ryder, S. Mattila (Gemini-North Telescope) on the 11th February, 2011, in the galaxy Arp 193 (IC 883) in the constellation Canes Venatici. The supernova is located 0.65" east and 0.45" south from the center of the gal...
A Chang Zheng-4B rocket body that was launched on the 15th December, 2008, from the Taiyaun Space Centre, for the Yaogan-5 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 19th November, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.CZ-4B RB
1 33457U 08064B 11303.89496327 .00174026 12731-4...
Maxima of long period variable X Pegasi on the 6th December, 2011. Magnitude: 9.4-13.8 Period: 201.2 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 21 20 59.847 | Dec. +14° 27' 00.49'' Google earth file: X Pegasi.kmz (1kb, kmz)
