On Christmas Eve 1965, what may have been mistaken for the bright star in the east, was in fact a fireball sweeping across England, announcing the arrival of what was to become Britain's largest meteorite. "When it first entered the atmosphere it would have been something like the size of a desk...
Title: Non-Vestoid candidate asteroids in the inner main belt Author: Dagmara Oszkiewicz, Brian A. Skiff, Nick Moskovitz, Pawel Kankiewicz, Anna Marciniak, Javier Licandro, Mattia Galiazzo, Werner Zeilinger Most Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) meteorites (analogues to V-type astero...
Title: First data from DM-Ice17 Author: DM-Ice Collaboration: J. Cherwinka, D. Grant, F. Halzen, K. M. Heeger, L. Hsu, A. J. F. Hubbard, A. Karle, M. Kauer, V. A. Kudryavtsev, C. Macdonald, R. H. Maruyama, S. Paling, W. Pettus, Z. P. Pierpoint, B. N. Reilly, M. Robinson, P. Sandstrom, N. J. C. Spooner...
1566 Icarus is an Apollo asteroid (a sub-class of near-Earth asteroid) that at perihelion comes closer to the Sun than Mercury, i.e. it is a Mercury-crossing asteroid. It is also a Venus and Mars-crosser. It is named after Icarus of Greek mythology, who flew too close to the Sun. It was discovered in 1...
An international science group Tuesday chose Colorado, US, as the site of a $50 million observatory to measure the cosmic rays that continually bombard the Earth.
The Pierre Auger Collaboration said the observatory — a 40-mile-by-40-mile array of remotely monitored sensors — will b...
NGC 4707 (also MCG 9-21-50, UGC 7971 and PGC 43255) is a magnitude +12.9 face-on spiral galaxy located 22 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at W...
Plutino 2002 XV93 is at Opposition (37.915 AU) on the 23rd December 2016. 2002 XV93 is locked in 2:3 resonance with Neptune, which means that when it makes two revolutions around the Sun, Neptune makes exactly three Read more
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have created a stunning new image of one of the youngest supernova remnants in the galaxy. This new view of the debris of an exploded star helps astronomers solve a long-standing mystery, with implications for understanding how a star's life can...
Ariane 5's seventh launch this year An Ariane 5 lifted off this evening to deliver two telecom satellites, Star One-D1 and JCSat-15, into their planned orbits. Arianespace announced liftoff at 20:30 GMT (17:30 local time, 21:30 CET) from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana for a dual payl...
China launches satellite to monitor global carbon emissions The Long March-2D rocket carrying a carbon dioxide monitoring satellite blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, Nov. 22, 2016. This was the 243rd mission of th...
The Arctic Science Summit that will take place in Davos, Switzerland on January 18th 2017 at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. Read more
Title: Crater 2: An Extremely Cold Dark Matter Halo Author: Nelson Caldwell (CfA), Matthew G. Walker (CMU), Mario Mateo (UM), Edward W. Olszewski (UA), Sergey Koposov (IoA), Vasily Belokurov (IoA), Gabriel Torrealba (IoA), Alex Geringer-Sameth (CMU), Christian I. Johnson (CfA) We present res...
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