Asteroid 2008 FF5 was discovered by Mt Lemmon on the 28th March 2008. The object has an absolute magnitude of 23, roughly 65 - 150 metres in diameter. It has an orbital period of 3.3 years. At perihelion, on the 27th July, 2011, the asteroid will pass 0.079139 AU from the Sun. [url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa...
2011 Hartness House Workshop: Meteors, Meteorites, and Minor Planets We are pleased to offer a pre-Stellafane workshop, cosponsored by Dudley Observatory, Thursday, July 28th, at the historic Hartness House Inn and Porter-Hartness Museum of Telescope Making located in Springfield, Vermont...
Zhemchug Canyon is a giant underwater canyon located in the middle of the Bering Sea. This submarine canyon is the largest canyon in the ocean. The canyon has a vertical relief of 2600 metres dropping from the shallow shelf the Bering Sea to the depths of the Aleutian Basin. Zhemchug Canyon is deeper t...
Ancient Lives is a collaboration between a diverse collection of Oxford Papyrologists and Researchers, The Imaging Papyri Project, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, and the Egypt Exploration Society and the following institutions. The papyri belong to the Egypt Exploration Society and will ev...
Title: The Origin of (90) Antiope From Component-Resolved Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Authors: Franck Marchis, J. Emilio Enriquez, Joshua P. Emery, Jerome Berthier, Pascal Descamp, Frederic Vachier The origin of the similarly-sized binary asteroid (90) Antiope remains an unsolved puzzle....
Title: A Spectroscopic Study of DD UMa: Ursa Major Group Member and Candidate for BRITE Authors: A. Elmasl, L. Fossati, C. P. Folsom, B. Albayrak, H.Izumiura The Ursa Major group is a nearby stellar supercluster which, while not gravitationally bound, is defined by co-moving members. DD UMa is a \d...
Title: A Search for High Proper Motion T Dwarfs with Pan-STARRS1 + 2MASS + WISE Authors: Michael C. Liu, Niall R. Deacon, Eugene A. Magnier, Kimberly M. Aller, Brendan P. Bowler (IfA/Hawaii), Trent J. Dupuy (CfA/SAO), Bertrand Goldman (MPIA), W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, K. W. Hodapp, N. Kaiser, R...
Title: Observation of H2O in a strongly lensed Herschel-ATLAS source at z=2.3 Authors: A. Omont, R. Neri, P. Cox, R. Lupu, M. Guélin, P. van der Werf, A. Weiß, R. Ivison, M. Negrello, L. Leeuw, M. Lehnert, I. Smail, A. Beelen, J.E. Aguirre, M. Baes, F. Bertoldi, D.L. Clements, A. Cooray, K. Coppin, H. D...
Syncom (for "synchronous communication satellite") started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were developed and manufactured by Hughes Space and Communications. Syncom 2, launched on July 26, 1963 with the Delta B #20 launch ve...
Lenka Kotková (née arounová; born 26 July 1973) is a Czech astronomer. She is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. She works at Observator Ondrejov (Ondrejov Observatory), located near Prague. Besides numerous main belt asteroids she also discovered Mars-crosser asteroid 9671 Hemera and Hilda...
Maxima of the long period variable W Tauri on the 26th July, 2011. Magnitude range: 9.9-11.4 Period: 264.6 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 04 27 57.19 | Dec +16 02 36.2
Maxima of the long period variable R Delphini on the 26th July, 2011. Magnitude range: 8.3-13.3 Period: 285.07 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 20 14 55.14 | Dec +09 05 21
NASA and Chevron Partner to Benefit the Energy Industry NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Chevron Corporation in San Ramon, Calif., have announced a partnership to develop a range of advanced technologies that can be used in harsh environments, both on Earth and in space....
David Schlegel: Hunting Dark Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicist and dark energy hunter David Schlegel chats with Sabin Russell, former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned Berkeley Lab science writer, June 22...
