NRO Celebrates 50 Years Of National Service The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) celebrated 50 years of national service with a cake-cutting ceremony on September 8, 2011. The event was part of an 18-month commemoration, which will include the formal unveiling of the Gambit and Hexagon le...
A real UFO flew over the Coachella Valley on Wednesday. It was most likely a fireball - a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere - a NASA scientists said late Wednesday. Experts and residents offered conflicting explanations, though, about the bright light the streaked through th...
VSU Planetarium Goes Digital Valdosta State Universitys Department of Physics, Astronomy, Geosciences, and Engineering Studies is ready to introduce South Georgia to its new digital planetarium system. The public is invited to check out the updated facility on Friday, Oct. 7, when the VSU Plan...
John Goodricke FRS (17 September 1764 - 20 April 1786) was an eminent and profoundly deaf amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol (Beta Persei) in 1782. Read more
Fourpeaked Mountain also known as Fourpeaked Volcano is an active stratovolcano in Alaska. The Alaska Volcano Observatory currently rates Fourpeaked as Aviation Alert Level Green and Volcanic-alert Level Normal. It is nearly completely covered by Fourpeaked Glacier. It was long a dormant vol...
Bernhard Riemann (September 17, 1826 - July 20, 1866) was an influential German mathematician who made lasting contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them enabling the later development of general relativity. Read more
Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. (September 16, 1846 - December 31, 1913) was an American astronomer. Chandler is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Read more
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (17 September [O.S. 5 September] 1857 - 19 September 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be o...
The 110 - 240 metre wide asteroid 2006 BE55 will make a close pass (73.8 lunar distances, 0.1895 AU), travelling at 18.79 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th September, 2011 @ 09:47 UT ±00:05. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
Title: Dynamical population synthesis: Constructing the stellar single and binary contents of galactic field populations Authors: Michael Marks, Pavel Kroupa The galactic field's late-type stellar single and binary population is calculated on the supposition that all stars form as binarie...
The 16 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2004 JO20 will make a close pass (61.9 lunar distances, 0.1590 AU), travelling at 15.04 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th October, 2011 @ 08:56 UT ±1 day 13:29. See moreThe Luna...
The 71 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2005 SL will make a close pass (25.6 lunar distances, 0.0659 AU), travelling at 10.20 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th October, 2011 @ 00:45 UT ±1 day 14:46. See moreThe Lunar Di...
The 550 - 1200 metre wide asteroid 2005 AN26 will make a close pass (35.7 lunar distances, 0.0918 AU), travelling at 12.51 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th November, 2011 @ 15:07 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Luna...
Orbital elements: 2011 BA Earth MOID = 0.1590 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 339.67385 (2000.0) P Q n 0.41291661 Peri. 151.74404 -0.75942132 +0.62119414 a 1.7860536 Node 67.98499 -0.62927763 -0.62586302 e 0.6104260 Incl. 12.03989 -0.16519357 -0.47160717 P 2.39 H 20.0 G 0.15 U 9 MPE...
Mark Mulligan is selling what appears to be a shiny glob of tangled fishing line for at least $8,500. These 8-millimeter thin threads are worth more than $600 an ounce because they are .999 percent pure gold. These are left over from a spool of golden thread that went to space several years ago in satell...
