Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at Cerro Paranal, Chile, and the CHARA Interferometer at Mount Wilson, California, a team of French and North American astronomers has discovered envelopes around three Cepheids, including the [url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum...
View of the night sky with more than 250 eyes End of May, the VIRUS-W spectrograph of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich was completed and is now ready for installation at the McDonald observatory in Texas. Its field of view, spectral covera...
Orbital elements: 2011 BX10 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0323 AU Epoch 2011 Jan. 19.0 TT = JDT 2455580.5 MPC M 5.42934 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27941643 Peri. 347.60143 +0.36139067 -0.91908123 a 2.3172244 Node 81.04694 +0.86848418 +0.27047769 e 0.5636360 Incl. 9.15218 +0.33931108 +0.28658595 P 3.53 H 18.3 G 0.15 F...
Orbital elements: 2011 BW10 Earth MOID = 0.0138 AU Epoch 2011 Jan. 19.0 TT = JDT 2455580.5 MPC M 18.66434 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42116874 Peri. 65.40062 +0.96527435 -0.25039837 a 1.7626468 Node 309.01236 +0.19128785 +0.87162898 e 0.7469688 Incl. 5.49992 +0.17791678 +0.42138293 P 2.34 H 25.4 G 0.15 From...
Orbital elements: 2011 BU10 Earth MOID = 0.0725 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 39.48814 (2000.0) P Q n 0.48487125 Peri. 218.78553 +0.98038064 +0.13740339 a 1.6046676 Node 132.69788 -0.09523340 +0.95793931 e 0.7852677 Incl. 11.08711 -0.17258160 +0.25193767 P 2.03 H 21.3 G 0.15 U 9 M...
Orbital elements: 2011 BG10 Earth MOID = 0.0120 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 355.85679 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25308386 Peri. 37.72762 -0.95641598 -0.28807565 a 2.4752918 Node 125.46326 +0.25160932 -0.89600470 e 0.6159557 Incl. 3.36155 +0.14819321 -0.33791714 P 3.89 H 26.2 G 0.15 U 9 MP...
Thousands of people have taken part in events to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, Scotland's national bard. The celebrations were led by First Minister Alex Salmond. It also marked the launch of a year-long programme of events which the Scottish Government hopes will raise t...
A 5 - 15 metre rock (2006 QM111) was discovered by Rob McNaught at Siding Spring, Australia.
Just now, observers in the southern hemisphere can see it passing the earth at a distance of about 165,000 km away.
Ephemeris:
2006 QM111 a,e,i = 2.82, 0.75, 2 q = 0.6938
Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl....
Tropical Cyclone Wilma (08P) is forecast to make landfall: Neiafu (18.6 S, 174.0 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 90% within 9 hours probability for TS is 95% within 9 hours Nuku' alofa (21.1 S, 175.2 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 60% within 9 hours probability for TS is 95% within 9 hours
A Russian Progress M-08M cargo spaceship was launched from the Kazakh Baikonour space centre Wednesday, delivering 2.5 tons of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), said Mission Control centre outside Moscow. The cargo spaceship atop a Soyuz-U carrier rocket blasted off at around...
Orbital elements: 2011 BJ10 Earth MOID = 0.1175 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 45.29763 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61922964 Peri. 298.41244 +0.37445681 -0.83943297 a 1.3632271 Node 124.06597 +0.92564196 +0.36337116 e 0.2757093 Incl. 28.38956 -0.05448914 +0.40412090 P 1.59 H 24.2 G 0.15 U 8 M...
Scholarship funding now available for the International Space University The UK Space Agency has just announced a new round of its competitive scholarship scheme to support UK citizens who wish to attend the International Space University's nine-week Space Studies Programme and one-year MSc p...
