PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) Science Conference February 24-25th, 2011, Technische Universitat, Berlin PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is one of the three medium class (M class) missions selected for definition study in the framework of the ESA Co...
Orbital elements: 2011 BQ50 Earth MOID = 0.0060 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 218.28610 (2000.0) P Q n 1.06594734 Peri. 0.68686 +0.28621505 +0.95814091 a 0.9491005 Node 285.94465 -0.87913355 +0.25975694 e 0.0972072 Incl. 0.40826 -0.38105794 +0.12038410 P 0.92 H 27.8 G 0.15 U 8 MPE...
When NASA's space shuttle Discovery is launched this Thursday after a three-month delay, it will send the work of Yale applied physics professors Marshall Long and Mitchell Smooke soaring to new heights. Long and Smooke are endeavouring to improve safety in space stations as well as discover more...
Astronomers investigating meteor-like object 9NEWS started receiving reports of a bright light in the sky over Colorado around 6 p.m. Tuesday. The description of what people saw and the location in the sky varies, but it was seen be numerous people along the Front Range. [url=http://www.9news.c...
Spectra obtained using the Chandra x-ray telescope show more than 300 supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies.
A team of astronomers has been able to determine the amount of iron near the black holes. The black holes were all located in the North and South Chandra Deep Fields (locat...
Scientists propose lab-grade black holes One day, scientists may create the ultimate tempest in a teapot - an artificial black hole in a millimetre-long gadget. Such laboratory-grade black holes may illuminate enigmatic physical properties of their wild galactic counterparts, all from the sa...
29th Astronomical Society of India (ASI) Meeting, Raipur, India The 29th meeting of the Astronomical Society of India will be held at Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur between Feb.23-25, 2011. The Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) is chaired by Prof. Pushpa Khare and the LOC is chai...
Tropical Storm Carlos (15S) is forecast to make landfall in Australia probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% currently probability for TS is 90% currently
STOIK image editing program - easy image viewer and pics editor, video editor. Quick to learn and easy to use, STOIK Imagic makes managing your photos and videos fun. Bundling a blazing fast image viewer with convenient image organizer and comprehensive still and video editor, STOIK Imagic has eve...
Windows 7: A better Vista? Microsoft on Tuesday offered up far more details on Windows 7, successor to the company's oft-maligned Windows Vista. In particular, Microsoft is focused on improving the time it takes for Windows to start up and shut down. In addition to its own work, Microsoft has been wo...
Beneath the 12 feet of snow that cover the ski slopes of Mammoth Mountain this winter, the tumbled rocks and restless ground tell a story of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes that shaped the region over thousands of years. Now, that story has been retold in fresh detail - and with a new timetable - by a...
Husband & wife duo create cosmic harp concert Professional harpist Janet Witman and her husband Kevin, a planetarium operator, will merge harp strings with astrophotography at the Music School of Delaware on Feb. 23. The Witmans sat down with the Community News to discuss their upcoming Astr...
Title: A New Species of Polyconites from the Lower Aptian of Iberia and the Early Evolution of Polyconitid Rudists Authors: PETER W. SKELTON, EULALIA GILI, TELM BOVER-ARNAL, RAMON SALAS & JOSEP ANTON MORENO-BEDMAR The main diagnostic character of polyconitid rudists is a distinctive ectom...