Title: A Leptophobic Z' And Dark Matter From Grand Unification Authors: Matthew R. Buckley, Dan Hooper, Jonathan L. Rosner We explore the phenomenology of Grand Unified Models based on the E_6 group, focusing on the Z' with suppressed couplings to leptons that can appear in such models. We find tha...
Tropical Storm Beatriz (02E) is forecast to make landfall in Mexico probability for CAT 1 or above is 65% in about 21 hours probability for TS is 95% within 9 hours Manzanillo (19.2 N, 104.3 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 65% in about 33 hours probability for TS i...
The 330 - 730 metre wide asteroid 2011 HO will make a close pass (70.5 lunar distances, 0.1812 AU), travelling at 9.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st June, 2011 @ 15:18 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
With Google Sky Map for your Android phone you can discover and browse the night sky just by pointing your phone to space. By using your Android phone's orientation sensors, we can show you a star map for your location. Explore planets, stars, constellations, and more! Learn the name and location of s...
Excavations during 1928 at an early Dynastic III royal cemetery in Ur, Iraq, found tool fragments of possible meteorite origin. The Age is estimated to be 2500 BC. Analysis: Fe 89%, Ni 10.9% Title: Meteors and Meteorites in the Ancient Near East Authors: Bjorkman, J. K [url=http://articles.adsab...
UFO SIGHTED AROUND LOKTAK LAKE IN MANIPUR, June 2011 19th June 2011/Moirang, Bishnupur, Manipur In a astounding incident, a fish farmer in Manipur experienced loss of consciousness for over 18 hours after he claimed he was hit by shockwav...
Grand Canyon: Free entry and free stargazing party Tuesday Summer starts Tuesday with a nice freebie from the U.S. National Park Service: Visit a national park that day and pay no entrance fees. At Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, you'll not only save the $25-per-vehicle entry fee on Tuesday...
Mountains named after scientists Two Fiordland mountains have finally been named after prompting of the New Zealand Geographic Board by a Manapouri man. The mountains, which lie within the Kepler Mountains group west of Te Anau, have been named Mt Pickering and Mt Tinsley after famous New Zealand...
Title: The NEWFIRM Medium-band Survey: Photometric Catalogues, Redshifts and the Bimodal Colour Distribution of Galaxies out to z~3 Authors: Katherine E. Whitaker, Ivo Labbe, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer, Mariska Kriek, Danilo Marchesini, Ryan F. Quadri, Marijn Franx, Adam Muzzin,...
Western regions of Saudi Arabia may be at risk from an unusual type of earthquake caused by failed volcanic eruptions, according to a team of Saudi and US scientists. They analysed some of the thousands of mini-earthquakes that hit the region in spring 2009, after a volcano eruption failed but still...
Title: Possible detection of two giant extrasolar planets orbiting the eclipsing polar UZ Fornacis Authors: Stephen B. Potter, Encarni Romero--Colmenero, Gavin Ramsay, Steven Crawford, Amanda Gulbis, Sudhanshu Barway, Ewald Zietsman, Marissa Kotze, David A. H. Buckley, Darragh O'Donoghu...
Title: Quenching of Carbon Monoxide and Methane in the Atmospheres of Cool Brown Dwarfs and Hot Jupiters Authors: Channon Visscher, Julianne I. Moses We explore CO-CH4 quench kinetics in the atmospheres of substellar objects using updated time-scale arguments, as suggested by a thermochemica...
Title: 3C 40 in Abell 194: can tail radio galaxies exist in a quiescent cluster? Authors: I. Sakelliou, M. J. Hardcastle, N. N. Jetha The nearby cluster Abell 194 hosts two luminous, distorted radio galaxies. Both reside within the cluster's core region, being separated in projection by only 100 kp...
UC Research Uncovers Ancient Mycenaean Fortress The University of Cincinnati's most recent research in Cyprus reveals the remnants of a Late Bronze Age (1500-750 B.C.) fortress that may have functioned to protect an important urban economic center in the ancient world. A recent find by a Univers...
Title: IRAS12556-7731: a "chamaeleonic" lithium-rich M-giant Authors: J.M. Alcala', K. Biazzo, E. Covino, A. Frasca, L.R. Bedin In this letter we characterise IRAS12556-7731 as the first lithium-rich M-type giant. Based on its late spectral type and high lithium content, and beca...
