Title: The faintest radio source yet: EVLA observations of the gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112 Authors: Neal Jackson We present new radio observations of the large-separation gravitationally-lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112, taken in a total of 6 hours of observations with the Extended Very...
Title: SDSS DR7 superclusters. Morphology Authors: M. Einasto, L.J. Liivamagi, E. Tago, E. Saar, E. Tempel, J. Einasto, V.J. Martinez, P. Heinamaki We study the morphology of a set of superclusters drawn from the SDSS DR7. We calculate the luminosity density field to determine superclusters fro...
Title: The observation of Extensive Air Showers from an Earth-Orbiting Satellite Authors: M. Pallavicini, R. Pesce, A. Petrolini, A. Thea In this paper we review the main issues that are relevant for the detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) from space. EAS are produced by the interaction of Ul...
Title: V2368 Oph: An eclipsing and double-lined spectroscopic binary used as a photometric comparison star for U Oph Authors: P. Harmanec, H. Boi, P. Mayer, P. Eenens, M. Bro, M. Wolf, S. Yang, M. lechta, D. Rudjak, D. Sudar, H. Ak The A-type star HR 6412 = V2368 Oph was used by several investigators as...
Mayflower Test Satellite, Jointly Developed by Northrop Grumman and Applied Minds, Proves Successful During Recent SpaceX Mission Northrop Grumman Corporation and Applied Minds, LLC announced the success of a recent launch and orbit of a Mayflower test microsatellite. Data gathered from aro...
India is planning to launch a technology demonstrator of a reusable launch vehicle in 2009, according to B.N. Suresh, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. Work is progressing on the technology demonstrator of the reusable launch vehicle and we are planning to have its la...
New telescope at La Trobe University Observatory La Trobe University has just installed a new telescope in its observatory. The telescope, based at the Bundoora campus, will be the largest of its type in Melbournes north, La Trobe's head of physics Professor Paul Pigram said. [url=http://whittl...
Ootacamund (officially, Udagamandalam sometimes abbreviated to Udhagai or Ooty), is a town, a municipality and the district capital of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Ootacamund is a popular hill station located in the Nilgiri Hills. The origin of the name Udhagamandala...
Unidentified flying object spotted over Melrose An eagle eyed photographer, who we agreed not to name, spotted the strange shape high above the Waverly Hotel on Monday afternoon about 3pm. And despite contacting both the Met Office and the Ministry of Defence (MOD), neither could confirm any mili...
Title: Hot Jupiters from Secular Planet--Planet Interactions Authors: Smadar Naoz, Will M. Farr, Yoram Lithwick, Frederic A. Rasio, Jean Teyssandier (Version v2) About 25 % of "hot Jupiters" are actually orbiting counter to the spin axis of the star. Perturbations from a binary star...
Title: The Spatial Orientation of Planetary Nebulae Within the Milky Way Authors: Walter A. Weidmann, Ruben J. Diaz (Version v2) We analyse the spatial orientation of a homogenous sample of 440 elongated Planetary Nebulae (PNe) in order to determine the orientation of their apparent major axis r...
Reptiles stood upright after mass extinction Reptiles changed their walking posture from sprawling to upright immediately after the end-Permian mass extinction, the biggest crisis in the history of life that occurred some 250 million years ago and wiped out 90% of all species. In a detailed stud...
Orbital elements: 2010 GV147 Earth MOID = 0.3233 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 333.56886 (2000.0) P Q n 1.03535435 Peri. 97.20917 +0.58335329 -0.51532077 a 0.9677059 Node 295.97895 +0.11327538 +0.81701884 e 0.6667207 Incl. 44.29684 +0.80428081 +0.25869814 P 0.95 H 18.6 G 0.15 U...
Orbital elements: 2010 FF7 Earth MOID = 0.1671 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 354.93408 (2000.0) P Q n 0.56673324 Peri. 346.92362 +0.74803838 -0.60999456 a 1.4461619 Node 53.79827 +0.63432353 +0.54134914 e 0.8560262 Incl. 18.90349 +0.19512112 +0.57866031 P 1.74 H 19.1 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
