Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), will be launched next year by a specific version of Ariane 5 called the Ariane 5 Evolution Storable upper stage Automated Transfer Vehicle, or A5 ES-ATV for short.
Although the ATV does not use the powerful ECA ve...
Title: Monitoring a high--amplitude Delta Sct star for 152 days: discovery of 12 additional modes and modulation effects in the light curve of CoRoT 101155310 Authors: Ennio Poretti, Monica Rainer, Werner W. Weiss, Zsofia Bognar, Andy Moya, Ewa Niemczura, Juan Carlos Suarez, Michel Auvergne, A...
Periodic table of shapes to give a new dimension to maths Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking shapes together in the same way as the periodic t...
Orbital elements: 2011 BU59 Earth MOID = 0.0019 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 55.47073 (2000.0) P Q n 0.70306668 Peri. 279.50221 +0.80468396 -0.59122680 a 1.2525788 Node 116.76120 +0.56574068 +0.73591307 e 0.3919922 Incl. 3.47829 +0.18005892 +0.32997398 P 1.40 H 25.9 G 0.15 U 6 MP...
Orbital elements: 2011 CY71 Earth MOID = 0.1831 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 351.63373 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20511676 Peri. 203.56681 -0.99300957 -0.02764123 a 2.8475320 Node 334.04469 +0.09147261 -0.79463920 e 0.5937624 Incl. 15.19992 -0.07459731 -0.60645240 P 4.81 H 23.7 G 0.15 Fr...
Orbital elements: 2011 BT59 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0207 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 18.71011 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25960463 Peri. 302.31900 +0.95145488 +0.30519816 a 2.4336667 Node 39.95072 -0.25740200 +0.85998116 e 0.9456673 Incl. 3.55765 -0.16875371 +0.40900670 P 3.80 H 21.0 G 0.15 U...
A magnitude 13.9 type Ia supernova, 2011aa, was discovered on the 6th February, 2011, by J. Newton and T. Puckett in the galaxy UGC3906 in the constellation Camelopardalis. The supernova is located 20.4" east and 10.2" south from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA = 07 36 42.6...
Clyde Space, Scotland's only space industry business, will chalk up its first-ever profit this year and turn over more than £2m, the company's chief executive has revealed to The Herald. From its base in Glasgow Science Park, the company's speciality is the manufacture of nano satellites for orga...
A meteorite strike may have led to emergency services receiving reports of a plane crash in the early hours today. Fire crews from Selby, Tadcaster and West Yorkshire were called to the Whitley Bridge area at about 12.20am as they investigated reports an aircraft may have come down in the area. [url=...
I saw a rather bright meteor this evening as I neared home on the west side of Baltimore. I was driving East on I-70, about a half mile before I got to 695 when I saw the meteor around 10-15 degrees to my left from my direction of travel. It appeared to be dropping almost straight down. [url=http://weblo...
The 310 - 690 metre wide asteroid 2005 QC5 will make a close pass (58.9 lunar distances, 0.1513 AU), travelling at 9.08 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th June, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dista...
Orbital elements: 2011 CF50 Earth MOID = 0.0433 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 352.35821 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35445370 Peri. 196.29955 -0.95290279 -0.28928994 a 1.9774084 Node 326.45078 +0.29338811 -0.80329901 e 0.4825705 Incl. 9.48131 +0.07680943 -0.52059776 P 2.78 H 26.9 G 0.15 U 8 [...
Orbital elements: 2011 CL50 Earth MOID = 0.0021 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 194.26860 (2000.0) P Q n 1.18729549 Peri. 283.62179 +0.62443061 +0.78107929 a 0.8832768 Node 25.01875 -0.71547939 +0.57262772 e 0.1469971 Incl. 0.16939 -0.31332995 +0.24902339 P 0.83 H 27.6 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Tropical Storm Bingiza (13S) is forecast to make landfall in Madagascar probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% currently probability for TS is 95% currently
Ancient Mesoamerican sculpture uncovered in southern Mexico With one arm raised and a determined scowl, the figure looks ready to march right off his carved tablet and into the history books. If only we knew who he was - corn god? Tribal chief? Sacred priest? "It's beautiful and was obviously v...