Title: Strong Gravitational Lensing by the Super-massive cD Galaxy in Abell 3827 Authors: E. R. Carrasco, P. L. Gomez, T. Verdugo, H. Lee, R. Diaz, M. Bergmann, J. E. H. Turner, B. W. Miller, M. J. West We have discovered strong gravitational lensing features in the core of the nearby cluster Abell 38...
Hannah Mabry discovered J1820+0159 in January Rowan County High School junior Hannah Mabry is the first student in Kentucky to discover a pulsar. She is part of a nationwide project that has high school students analysing data from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virg...
Middle East at forefront of $7.5bn space tourism industry The plethora of opportunities for private and public sector investors throughout the region that exist in the commercial space and satellite industry will be examined during the third annual Global Space & Satellite Forum (GSSF), in...
Midnight Metal Detecting - My First Meteorite Find with Minelab E-Trac I decided to check it out, and just below the surface was this rock thing, it was dark, but could not see it really, I swung my coil over it and it sent of a signal in the 12.04 r...
Title: Analysis of SOHO/MDI and TRACE Observations of Sunspot Torsional Oscillation in AR10421 Authors: O.S. Gopasyuk, A.G. Kosovichev Rotation of the leading sunspot of active region NOAA 10421 was investigated using magnetograms and Dopplergrams from the MDI instrument of the Solar and Hel...
Title: MN Dra - In-the-Gap Dwarf Nova With Negative Superhumps Authors: Elena Pavlenko, Taichi Kato, Max Andreev, Alexandr Sklyanov, Alexandra Zubareva, Denis Samsonov, Irina Voloshina, Vladimir Metlov, Sergey Shugarov, Nikolay Parakhin, Alex Golovin, Oksana Antoniuk The multi-site phot...
Title: The photometric period in ES Ceti Authors: C.M. Copperwheat, T.R. Marsh, V.S. Dhillon, S.P. Littlefair, P.A. Woudt, B. Warner, J. Patterson, D. Steeghs, J. Kemp, E. Armstrong, R. Rea (Version v2) We present ULTRACAM photometry of ES Cet, an ultracompact binary with a 620s orbital period. T...
Barry Clifford has been searching the high seas from Africa to Cape Cod, and he's hit real treasure. The Massachusetts-based historian and underwater explorer discovered the wreckage of the Whydah, a pirate ship that sunk off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717, making him the discoverer of the only confi...
Workshop: Target NEO - Providing a Resilient NEO Accessibility Program for Human Exploration Beyond LEO, Washington DC 22nd February 2011 21st Street NW, Washington D.C., DC 20006
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research discover a cosmic chunk in space that originated from deep inside the third largest asteroid Researchers from the University of North Dakota and from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have discovered a...
The 600 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2003 FC5 will make a close pass (56.0 lunar distances, 0.1440 AU), travelling at 11.83 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd February, 2011 @ 09:46 UT ±1 minute. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...
Orbital elements: 2011 BZ59 Earth MOID = 0.1068 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 7.42873 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39322329 Peri. 323.27255 -0.53560198 -0.84442907 a 1.8451991 Node 159.10821 +0.78026329 -0.49864569 e 0.4091468 Incl. 1.34506 +0.32298563 -0.19568347 P 2.51 H 25.4 G 0.15 U 5 MPE...
Stars 3D - Astronomy Application for Windows Phone 7 Stars 3D is a powerful tool for anyone who loves astronomy or simply enjoys the magic of the night sky. Your navigator to the wonders of the night sky. You can start by observing a three dimen...
Orbital elements: 2011 CK50 Earth MOID = 0.0513 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 199.40140 (2000.0) P Q n 1.20372483 Peri. 176.69569 +0.65273079 +0.75578057 a 0.8752213 Node 134.04381 -0.69673362 +0.62598782 e 0.3247946 Incl. 4.17475 -0.29749755 +0.19218475 P 0.82 H 24.1 G 0.15 U 9 [...
