Title: EURONEAR - Recovery, Follow-up and Discovery of NEAs and MBAs using Large Field 1-2m Telescopes Authors: O. Vaduvescu, M. Birlan, A. Tudorica, A. Sonka, F. Pozo N., A. Barr D., D. J. Asher, J. Licandro, J. L. Ortiz, E. Unda-Sanzana, M. Popescu, A. Nedelcu, D. Dumitru, R. Toma, I. Comsa, C. Vanc...
As the clock approached 2:04 p.m. Tuesday, 17-foot-high antennas placed on a baseball field at Merritt Island High rotated to the south, tracking the International Space Station as it flew at 17,500 mph overhead. Sitting on the bleachers, students watched as amateur ham radio operator John Eccle...
Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of the worlds greatest living photographers - famous amongst many other things, for his impeccable seascapes, his time delay images of entire films, his diorama photography blurring the lines between model and life - has granted us some time before the public launch of his ex...
Ganesha Chaturthi, also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi is the Hindu festival of Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, who is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees in the duration of this festival. Read more
Kwangmyongsong-1 (Bright Star 1) was a satellite allegedly launched by North Korea on 31 August 1998. While the North Korean government claimed that the launch was successful making North Korea the ninth country to launch a satellite, no objects were ever tracked in orbit from the launch, and outs...
The Farthest Star GRB 990123 is a gamma-ray burst that occurred on January 23, 1999. Read more Mu Cephei ( Cep, Cephei), also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, is a red supergiant st...
James Ferguson (August 31, 1797 - September 26, 1867) was an American astronomer and engineer (he helped build the Erie canal) born in Scotland who made the first discovery of an asteroid from North America (31 Euphrosyne). Starting in 1847, he worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, DC...
Robert Hanbury Brown, AC FRS (31 August 1916 - 16 January 2002) was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He made notable contributions to the development of radar and he later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy. He was rumoured to have been the origina...
DAVID BOWIE-INSPIRED CHILDREN'S BOOK David Bowie's classic space epic made into a children's book. Note: There is no physical version of this...yet. If you like the book, spread the word and we'll make this happen! DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE THING RIGHT HERE! (PDF 13.3 MB) Source kolbisneat.com David Bo...
The BBC has launched a new astronomy magazine, to compliment the Sky at Night TV series on BBC. The program has been running since 1957 and is hosted by Sir Patrick Moore.
The magazine offers more technical data than the TV broadcast and a cover mounted CD.
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An atlas of the Milky Way Sino-German research group draws a new map at the Urumqi radio telescope and discovers two supernova remnants It may not be much use to hitchhikers through the galaxy, but it is extremely valuable to astronomers: the new radio atlas of the Milky Way. After almost ten years of w...
Wanted - New small satellite launch vehicles Small satellites are growing in popularity for many reasons. As a result, the search is on for more flexible and cost-effective small satellite launch solutions. Amongst all the researchers and small satellite enthusiasts at the recent 25th Annual AI...
'Too Bright' Meteor Streaks Over Atlanta Skies A very bright meteor streaked across the skies of Atlanta Sunday night, NASA scientists revealed Monday. NASA said that the meteor was "too bright for the all-sky camera in Cartersville to accurately determine the center of light." The Me...
Orbital elements:
2011 QE38 Earth MOID = 0.0429 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 345.55573 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.26288578 Peri. 63.11098 +0.85163800 -0.52391769
a 2.4133741 Node 328.47795 +0.47017949 +0.77625473
e 0.5731645 Incl. 1.63663 +0.23161167 +0.35062637
P 3.75 H 22.2 G...
New discovery sheds light on the ecosystem of young galaxies A team of scientists, led by Michael Rauch from the Carnegie Observatories, has discovered a distant galaxy that may help elucidate two fundamental questions of galaxy formation: How galaxies take in matter and how they give off energet...
