Title: The SDSS White Dwarf - M Star Library Authors: René Heller, Axel D. Schwope, Roy H. Ostensen The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), originally targeted at quasi-stellar objects, has provided us with a wealth of astronomical byproducts through the last decade. Since then, the number of white d...
A Chinese company has had its license suspended after it tried to make money by selling land on the moon.
The Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Co. managed to sell large swathes of pristine lunar property before being shut down.
The company, claiming to act on behalf...
Title: Multi-site, multi-year monitoring of the oscillating Algol-type eclipsing binary CT Her Authors: P. Lampens, A. Strigachev, S.-L. Kim, E. Rodriguez, M.J. Lopez-Gonzalez, J. Vidal-Sainz, D. Mkrtichian, J.-R. Koo, Y. B. Kang, P. Van Cauteren, P. Wils, Z. Kraicheva, D. Dimitrov, J. South...
Bran Castle for sale. Last year Romania's former royal family got the Castle back from Romania's former Communist Government. And now it is on the market - Offers of $135 Million or over will be accepted.. Positioned on a cliff in Transylvania, with stunning views, the 800-year-old Castle was once o...
Orbital elements:
2004 HM79
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 132.17440 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00450147 Peri. 242.62004 +0.19776801 -0.98023258
a 36.3273120 Node 195.97650 +0.90645453 +0.18507036
e 0.0816221 Incl. 1.17599 +0.37313269 +0.06995040
P 219 H 7.6 G 0.15 U 4
2005 CF81
E...
NASA to Announce New Planetary Science Mission NASA will host a media teleconference at 4:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 25, to discuss the selection of a future science mission that will usher in a new era in planetary exploration. Jim Green, director for NASA's Planetary Science Division Mission i...
North Korea says it has staged a "successful" underground nuclear test, prompting international condemnation. The state says it was more powerful than the previous one in October 2006. A number of external agencies have confirmed a powerful explosion took place, suspected to be asso...
The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end up protecting the lives of space-walking astronauts a...
To reduce the uncertainty about the sighting of the crescent Kashmir University (KU) is installing a powerful telescope at Gulmarg so as to witness various celestial events, besides tracking the moon which may help in near future to trace this illustrious crescent. [url=http://www.risingkash...
Special Event of the International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2011 As part of the 4th International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging (ISPDI 2011), May 24-26, 2011 in Beijing, China, scientists and engineers from the US and China are meeting for a speci...
Free public lecture presented by the Australian Institute of Physics (SA branch): Exploring the Fundamental Laws of the Universe by Professor Anthony Thomas, Australian Laureate Fellow and Elder Professor of Physics, University of Adelaide Napier 102, Napier Building, North Terrace Campus,...
Title: A deeply eclipsing detached double helium white dwarf binary Authors: S. G. Parsons, T. R. Marsh, B. T. Gänsicke, A. J. Drake, D. Koester Using Liverpool Telescope+RISE photometry we identify the 2.78 hour period binary star CSS 41177 as a detached eclipsing double white dwarf binary with a...
A nuclear waste vault in New Mexico will long outlive our society. Experts are working on elaborate ways to warn future civilizations.
Roger Nelson has a simple and unequivocal message for the people of the year 12006:
As chief scientist of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Nelson oversees...
Towel Day is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for the books and the author, as referenced in Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day]...
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