XSAT Micro-Satellite Project This is a developmental project undertaken by CREST (Centre For Research in Satellite Technologies jointly set up by DSO and NTU), with participation from various schools in NTU, as well as partners such as DSTA, CRISP (Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Process...
The launch of Indo-Russian micro-satellite YouthSat originally scheduled for the first quarter of this year has been postponed to 2008-end; purportedly at the request of Indian Space Research Organisation. This was disclosed to a visiting group of Indian journalists by Mikhail I. Panasyuk, Di...
Orbital elements:
2011 FS6 Earth MOID = 0.1373 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 340.56299 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.27685003 Peri. 103.15669 -0.88839866 +0.45681582
a 2.3315228 Node 104.04077 -0.43725759 -0.81185462
e 0.5141365 Incl. 2.68620 -0.13983425 -0.36360883
P 3.56 H 24.3 G 0...
The birth of a black hole was witnessed this morning. (9th May 22:45:53.95 UT)
(Notified on Monday 09 May 01:46:45 UT)
The Gamma ray burst GRB050509b was detected by NASA's orbiting Swift telescope, and was most likely the merger of two dense neutron stars.
"A fraction of a sec...
Orbital elements: 2009 HV44 Earth MOID = 0.2008 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 352.60103 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45520754 Peri. 76.58987 +0.27840946 +0.88486823 a 1.6736440 Node 217.23376 -0.92662158 +0.34977405 e 0.4255059 Incl. 38.11724 +0.25270658 +0.30767894 P 2.17 H 18.8 G 0.15 U 9...
Telescope will track space junk A ground-based telescope that can scan the skies faster than any other of its size could help to protect satellites from collisions with space debris and each other. The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST), developed by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Age...
Wilhelm Schickard (22 April 1592 - 24 October 1635) was a German polymath who designed a calculating machine in 1623, twenty years before the Pascaline of Blaise Pascal. Read more
The Tsinghua College was established in Beijing, China, on 22 April 1911 on the site of a former royal garden belonging to a prince. It was funded by the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program, which consisted of unexpected surplus money from indemnities China had paid the United States fo...
A joint team of the Ministry of Minerals and security organs in North Kordofan State Tuesday found the remains of the meteor that fell in the night of April 4 in the locality of El-Khewi. In a statement to SUNA, the Commissioner of El-Khewi Locality, Ehaimer Ali Ehaimer, said that the remains of the met...
Skynet goes online. It begins to learn at a geometric rate. Terminator Theme - "T101" Peter Dafnous Remix Terminator Theme remix (Techno) [url=http://mysteryhisto...
The Caille Meteorite, the largest meteorite ever discovered in France, landed on a mountain beside the village of Caille sometime before 1630. Dragged to the village by four oxen, the iron-stone hung around the village for a century and a half, until it was identified as a meteorite and traded to Par...
A 10-metre object on a heliocentric orbit, now catalogued as 1991 VG, made a close approach to the Earth in 1991 December, and was discovered a month before perigee with the Spacewatch telescope at Kitt Peak. Its very Earth-like orbit and observations of rapid brightness fluctuations argued for it...
Orbital elements:
2004 KD19
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 176.40825 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00417407 Peri. 62.49103 +0.38595315 -0.92251313
a 38.2028615 Node 4.80923 +0.83275191 +0.34694340
e 0.0182718 Incl. 2.12834 +0.39694386 +0.16911477
P 236 H 7.4 G 0.15 U 42004 OP15
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