JETS Observatory opens this year with a new partnership and a new plan for programming. The facility will now be operated by Planetary Studies Foundation (PSF), a nonprofit organization based in Galena and Elizabeth. At 7 p.m. on July 16, the observatory will host a rededication ceremony to celebr...
Trinitite, also known as Atomite or Alamogordo Glass, is the name given to the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of silica and feldspar that was melted by the atomic...
The first day of the first month of the Islamic calendar (1 Muharram 1 AH) was Friday, 16 July 622 CE, the equivalent civil tabular date (same daylight period) in the Julian calendar. The Islamic day began at the preceding sunset on the evening of 15 July. This Julian date (16 July) was determined by med...
Maxima of long period variable Y Monocerotis on the 16th July, 2011. Magnitude range: 9.1-13.9 Period: 227.9 days Position (2000): RA 06 56 52.14 | Dec +11° 14' 32.3"
Former resident sues to claim Alaska moon rocks The mystery of Alaska's missing moon rocks has been solved. Getting them back to a state museum likely will depend on a judge. Alaska officials are contesting a lawsuit filed by a former resident who claims he rescued the moon rocks from a garbage heap 38...
Orbital elements: 2005 XB1 Earth MOID = 0.0707 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 219.96264 (2000.0) P Q n 0.81952844 Peri. 232.79159 +0.58256670 +0.79974954 a 1.1309065 Node 73.46111 -0.68957047 +0.58074413 e 0.4187762 Incl. 8.69811 -0.43024251 +0.15210827 P 1.20 H 21.8 G 0.15 U 4 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2010 LM68 Earth MOID = 0.1201 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 317.00644 (2000.0) P Q n 0.89996874 Peri. 137.45361 +0.97169180 -0.16387757 a 1.0624727 Node 232.76664 +0.11397619 +0.95611013 e 0.2631269 Incl. 12.34154 +0.20694076 +0.24289415 P 1.10 H 20.8 G 0.15 U...
10th Anniversary of the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" In 2000, the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" was set up on the initiative of ESA (European Space Agency) and CNES (France's Centre national d'études spatiales). Its purpose is to...
Antarctic experts meet for conference in Edinburgh More than 500 experts from around the world are meeting in Edinburgh to present the latest scientific research from the Polar regions. It is the first time in more than 20 years that the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) has held it...
A team from University Of Torontos marine geophysics group is participating in a joint project to create the worlds largest cable-linked sea floor observatory on the Pacific Ocean floor. Located in the northeast Pacific off the coasts of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, the active Juan d...
Title: Gas and dust in the BCD galaxy VII Zw 403 (UGC 6456) Authors: O. V. Egorov, T. A. Lozinskaya Based on the results of the earlier spectroscopic observations with the 6-m BTA telescope of the SAO RAS we refine the metallicity estimates of the complexes of ionised gas in the VII Zw 403 galaxy. Infrar...
Castor and Pollux are constantly associated with horses in art and literature. They bear striking similarities in this respect to divine twins in other mythologies, especially the Vedic Ashvins, who like them have a close association with horses. Their role as horsemen made them particularly at...
The 220 - 480 metre wide asteroid 2008 TR10 will make a close pass (56.0 lunar distances, 0.1439 AU), travelling at 5.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th July, 2011 @ 14:59 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
