* Astronomy

Probing the First Stars and Black Holes in the Early Universe with the Dark Ages Radio Explorer DARE: a proposed NASA Mission to probe the early Universe. The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) science objectives include: (1) When did the first stars form? (2) When did the first accreting black holes fo...

The 9 - 21 metre wide asteroid 2007 WC5 will make a close pass (34.8 lunar distances, 0.0893 AU), travelling at 8.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th April, 2011 @ 00:40 UT ±3 days 04:43. See more The Lunar Dist...

Syrian tablet fragment shatters long-held beliefs about origin of music The tablet sits in a quiet corner of the National Museum of Damascus. To the casual visitor it could be nothing more than another artefact housed in an institution brimming with such relics. Indeed, at the time of my visit, the a...

Title: Geochemical evidence for an impact origin for a Late Archean spherule layer, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa Authors: Bruce M. Simonson, Christian Koeberl, Iain McDonald, Wolf Uwe Reimold ABSTRACT A Late Archean layer rich in sand-sized spherules o...

Everyone in the south-west yesterday had their own big bang theory. Was it an earthquake? Did Tower Hill erupt into action? Did a meteor shower crash to earth, or was it an alien invasion? The "big bang" was heard about 1am yesterday, with reports of an "explosion" shaking home...

Ukrainian astronomers create Europe's largest stars catalogue Scientists from Kharkiv National University Karazin (Eastern Ukraine) created Europe's largest catalogue of the stars. "It describes 300 million space objects, is the second largest star directory in the world". &qu...

Orbital elements: 2011 GH62 Earth MOID = 0.1964 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 349.42736 (2000.0) P Q n 0.13616549 Peri. 183.60383 -0.87819544 +0.45484754 a 3.7418929 Node 25.17007 -0.42967749 -0.61435343 e 0.6794099 Incl. 20.35557 -0.21011909 -0.64473528 P 7.24 H 20.9 G...

Orbital elements: 2011 GL62 Earth MOID = 0.0534 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 2.94628 (2000.0) P Q n 0.81401824 Peri. 243.94658 +0.28309668 -0.95794780 a 1.1360043 Node 189.95479 +0.94794822 +0.28689405 e 0.7083913 Incl. 15.71474 +0.14577534 -0.00527427 P 1.21 H 19.0 G 0...

Orbital elements: 2011 GK62 Earth MOID = 0.1693 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 356.07212 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26131633 Peri. 19.17338 -0.01811522 -0.98204969 a 2.4230276 Node 72.21644 +0.88964672 -0.10152884 e 0.7344569 Incl. 11.37163 +0.45629000 +0.15896635 P 3.77 H 19.1 G 0...

Orbital elements: 2011 GJ62 Earth MOID = 0.2828 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 23.00234 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28393587 Peri. 301.63031 -0.28635517 -0.95631068 a 2.2925697 Node 164.67137 +0.93712726 -0.29235163 e 0.4767588 Incl. 12.87653 +0.19948238 +0.00063250 P 3.47 H 19.4 G...

Orbital elements: 2011 GE62 Earth MOID = 0.0631 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 347.14924 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27738069 Peri. 161.98926 -0.99460262 +0.01857595 a 2.3285482 Node 19.92793 -0.07977254 -0.76601781 e 0.5494769 Incl. 17.42760 +0.06634727 -0.64255089 P 3.55 H 24.1 G...

Scientists at Penn State and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminium atoms to water. The findings are important because they demonstrate that it is the geometries of these aluminium clusters, rather than solely t...

Scientists Find New Type Of Mineral In Historic Meteorite NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in December 1969. The new minera...

China donates satellite, meteorological systems to 16 Asian countries The director of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) Zheng Guoguang presented representatives from 16 Asian countries with integrated satellite broadcasting and receiving stations and the CMA's meteorologic...

Title: A peculiar young eruptive star in the dark cloud Lynds 1340 Authors: M. Kun, E. Szegedi-Elek, A. Moór, P. Ábrahám, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, D. Apai, J. Kelemen, A. Pál, M. Rácz, Zs. Regály, R. Szakáts, N. Szalai, A. Szing We conducted a long-term optical photometric and spectroscopic monitoring...