US astronaut's call to an old Glamis friend Mission specialist Colonel Alvin Drew became the 200th man to walk in space during Discovery's recently completed journey to the international space station. As the former US air force officer orbited the globe his thoughts turned to Earth and Glamis Cas...
Title: Improved Orbital Parameters and Transit Monitoring for HD 156846b Authors: Stephen R. Kane, Andrew W. Howard, Genady Pilyavsky, Suvrath Mahadevan, Gregory W. Henry, Kaspar von Braun, David R. Ciardi, Diana Dragomir, Debra A. Fischer, Eric Jensen, Gregory Laughlin, Solange V. Ramirez,...
Doncaster's failed Earth Centre site is sold off A failed environmental visitor attraction in South Yorkshire has been sold by a council to become an activity centre for school children. The Earth Centre opened in 1999 on the site of a former colliery at Denaby at a cost of £55m, but was closed in 2004 a...
Orbital elements: 2009 MF10 Epoch 2009 July 8.0 TT = JDT 2455020.5 MPC M 42.39148 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00371057 Peri. 272.16983 -0.54918912 +0.77922549 a 41.3214651 Node 319.27710 -0.45458014 -0.58177260 e 0.2141601 Incl. 27.57391 -0.70124760 -0.23312720 P 266 H 6.0 G 0.15 From 7 observations 2009 J...
Orbital elements: 2010 FX86 Epoch 2010 Mar. 25.0 TT = JDT 2455280.5 MPC M 183.23124 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00337555 Peri. 81.18835 +0.75927931 -0.57070595 a 44.0122138 Node 312.86565 +0.28710394 +0.72500686 e 0.0644365 Incl. 25.25514 +0.58400878 +0.38556422 P 292 H 4.3 G 0.15 From 8 observations 2010...
A possible magnitude 15.3 supernova was discovered by M. Gavin on the 18th March, 2011, in the galaxy ARP 265 (IC 3862) in the constellation Canes Venatici. The supernova is located 0" east and 6" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position(2000): RA = 12 53 53...
Polish archaeologists in major find in Sudan A major stronghold and a Mediaeval settlement have been discovered by Polish archaeologists in Sudan at the start of a three year research project realized by the Prehistory Institute of Poznan University and the National Corporation for Antiquities...
21 candidates for wonders of world list
A global competition to name the new seven wonders of the world is attracting widespread interest, with more than 20 million people voting so far, organisers say.
The Egyptian pyramids are the only surviving structures from the original list of s...
Ministers meet to define the role of space in delivering global objectives Ministers in charge of space activities within the now 18 ESA Member States and Canada will meet in The Hague (the Netherlands) on 25 and 26 November to implement the European Space Policy, setting out the start of future pro...
Lockheed reveals new simulation centre Lockheed Martin on Monday unveiled its new simulation centre in its Waterton Canyon facility in south Jefferson County as well as the first Orion spacecraft, which the company hopes will take humans to Mars within the next 40 years. [url=http://www.denver...
A Proton Breeze M Debris (Tank) that was launched on the 17th November, 2007, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, for the SIRIUS 4 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 22nd March, 2011 @ 16:55 GMT ± 48 hours. TLE Data pre>BREEZE-M TANK 1 32300U 07057B 11078...
Title: HAT-P-30b: A transiting hot Jupiter on a highly oblique orbit Authors: John Asher Johnson, J. N. Winn, J. D. Hartman, G. A. Bakos, T. D. Morton, G. Torres, Géza Kovács, D. W. Latham, R. W. Noyes, B. Sato, G. A. Esquerdo, D. A. Fischer, G. W. Marcy, A. W. Howard, S. N. Quinn, B. Beky, D. D. Sasselov, R...
Title: First astronomical unit scale image of the GW Ori triple. Direct detection of a new stellar companion Authors: J.-P. Berger, J. D. Monnier, R. Millan-Gabet, S. Renard, E. Pedretti, W. Traub, C. Bechet, M. Benisty, N. Carleton, P. Haguenauer, P. Kern, P. Labeye, F. Longa, M. Lacasse, F. Malbe...
Special Cluster Talk: Cosmological constant, q-theory, and particle physics 14:30 - 16:00, 22 March 2011 Speaker: Frans R. Klinkhamer (University of Karlsruhe, KIT) A brief introduction to the notorious "cosmological constant problem" is given. Then, a particular approach is di...