Orbital elements:
2011 LS17 Earth MOID = 0.0288 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 1.83723 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.26649634 Peri. 287.13950 +0.89220954 +0.44949939
a 2.3915266 Node 46.17400 -0.38789156 +0.81229934
e 0.6277834 Incl. 3.47519 -0.23130559 +0.37164508
P 3.70 H 22.6 G 0....
Nearby Galaxy Boasts Two Monster Black Holes, Both Active A study using NASA's Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a second supersized black hole at the heart of an unusual nearby galaxy already known to be sporting one. The galaxy, which is known as Markarian 739 or NGC 3758...
Orbital elements: 2010 NB Earth MOID = 0.0461 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 309.46389 (2000.0) P Q n 0.93894315 Peri. 116.58102 +0.81764383 -0.44495174 a 1.0328641 Node 271.83700 +0.30477842 +0.87289648 e 0.3258185 Incl. 21.44034 +0.48843494 +0.20017412 P 1.05 H 22.9 G 0.15 U 8 [...
Johann Georg Palitzsch (June 11, 1723 - February 21, 1788) was a German astronomer who became famous for recovering Comet 1P/Halley (better known as Halley's Comet or Comet Halley) on Christmas Day, 1758. Read more
Dr Duncan I. Steel, BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD, FRAS (born 11 June 1955), is a British/Australian scientist born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. He is a world-renowned space science authority who has worked with NASA to assess the threat of comet and asteroid collisions and investigate technologies to aver...
The 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race, when a crash caused large parts of racing car debris to fly into the crowd. Read more Spoiler
Title: Study of multi-muon events produced in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV Authors: CDF Collaboration We report a study of multi-muon events produced at the Fermilab Tevatron collider and recorded by the CDFII detector. In a data set acquired with a dedicated dimuon trigger and corresp...
The (then) 48" telescope at the Old Melbourne Observatory last Century was relocated to Mount Stromlo Observatory in 1945 and extensively modified. Complete refurbishment after 1990 enabled the 50" telescope (along with highly sophisticated CCD camera equipment and software) to b...
Combining observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. This object, also known as a microquasar, blows a huge bubble of hot gas, 1000 light-years across, twice a...
Anyone interested in stargazing can attend the free open house at the MSU Observatory next weekend. Open to the public, the events will be on June 10 and 11, and they run from 9:30-11:00 p.m. The observatory is located on the corner of Forest and College roads. Shane Horvatin, the education coordi...
This meteor shower extends from 21st May to the 16th June. With the broad maximum on the 10-15th June. The radiant point is near the borders of the constellations Ophtuchus, Sagittarius, and Scorpius. The Theta Ophiuchids are best after midnight and from southerly latitudes. This shower is also kn...
James Alton McDivitt (Brig Gen, USAF Ret.) (born June 10, 1929) is a former NASA astronaut and engineer who flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He commanded the Gemini 4 flight in which Edward H. White performed the first US space walk, and later the Apollo 9 flight which was the first manned Earth o...
A Boeing Delta 2 rocket will launch the CloudSat and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) spacecraft from the SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on September 29th.
The one second Launch window starts at 10:01:05 G...
Mini Autoguider Package from Orion Telescopes Capturing a breath taking image with a telescope used to be very difficult, and it required somewhat expensive astronomy equipment to do the job right. Thanks to Orion Telescopes and other astronomy product dealers, things aren't what they used to be...
An observatory about 20 miles southwest of downtown Wichita is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, visitors to the Lake Afton Public Observatory will be able to observe Saturn and the moon and go on a constellation tour from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. [url=h...