* Astronomy

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The 6 metre wide asteroid 2008 VS4 will pass the Earth-Moon system on the 16th November, 2011. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Orbital elements: C/2010 G2 (Hill) T 2011 June 19.639 TT MPC q 1.25708 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 150.748 +0.288553 +0.359341 Node 244.701 +0.569465 +0.680727 e 1.0 Incl. 101.001 +0.769706 -0.638346 From 51 observations 2010 Apr. 10-11.[url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/mpec/K10/K10G87.htm...

Maxima of long period variable S Cephei on the 16th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 8.3-11.2 Period: 486.84 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 21 35 12.82976 | Dec. +78° 37' 28.1892'' Google earth file: S Cephei.kmz (1kb, kmz)

Maxima of long period variable RT Centauri on the 16th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 9.0-12.7 Period: 255 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 13 48 20.94975 | Dec. -36° 51' 45.2289'' Google earth file: RT Centauri.kmz (1kb, kmz)

Title: The X-ray Counterpart of the High-B Pulsar PSR J0726-2612 Authors: J. S. Speagle (1,2), D. L. Kaplan (1,3), M. H. van Kerkwijk (4) ((1) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (2) Harvard College, (3) corresponding author, (4) University of Toronto) Middle-aged, cooling neutron stars are ob...

Title: The Orbit and Companion of Probable gamma-ray Pulsar J2339-0533 Authors: Roger W. Romani, Michael S. Shaw We have measured dramatic flux and spectral variations through the 0.193d orbit of the optical counterpart of the unidentified gamma-ray source 0FGL J2339.8-0530. This compact obj...

Maxima of long period variable Z Pegasi on the 15th November, 2011. Magnitude range: 8.4-13.2 Period: 334.8 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 00 00 06.56343 | Dec. +25° 53' 11.2528'' Google earth file: Z Pegasi.kmz (1kb, kmz)

Maxima of long period variable Y Pegasi on the 4th March, 2010 Magnitude: 10.5-14.9 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 22 11 37.5, Dec +14 21 56

Evidence of Ancient Lake in California's Eel River Emerges A catastrophic landslide 22,500 years ago dammed the upper reaches of northern California's Eel River, forming a 30-mile-long lake - which has since disappeared - and leaving a living legacy found today in the genes of the region's steelh...

NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, a small, microsatellite class spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit. The pre-shipment review was completed in May,...

Nyamuragira (Derived from the Kinyarwanda verb 'Kuragira inka', meaning to herd cows; Inka means cow or cows) is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated about 25 km north of Lake Kivu. It is in the Province of Nord-Kivu. [url=http://en.wikipedi...

A new sunspot is emerging over the edge of the Suns eastern limb. Expand (142kb, 560 x 560) Credit: SOHO/MDI

The 540 - 1200 metre wide asteroid 2008 QY will make a close pass (59.6 lunar distances, 0.1531 AU), travelling at 22.29 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th February, 2012 @ 22:07 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Dis...

Until recently, natural satellites were only known around the major planets. The Moon orbits the Earth, there are two tiny moons around Mars, each of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune has many more, and even the smallest and outermost, Pluto, is accompanied by one. Howev...