* Astronomy

The 220 - 490 metre wide asteroid 2002 BN will make a close pass (73.9 lunar distances, 0.1899 AU), travelling at 17.30 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd January, 2011 @ 14:32 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

CU vying for solar observatory University of Colorado scientists are working to get Boulder and CU their day in the sun. CU is one of seven academic institutions vying to become home of the National Solar Observatory, which could bring more than 60 scientists and administrators to Boulder and pump m...

Title: Site characterisation studies for the Iranian National Observatory Authors: Habib G. Khosroshahi We report on the Iranian National Observatory (INO) ongoing site characterisation studies for INO 3.4m optical telescope under development. Iran benefits from high altitude mountains a...

RR Lyrae Stars, Metal-Poor Stars and the Galaxy January 23-25, 2011, Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, California, USA Read more

1st IAA Conference on University Satellites Missions and CubeSat Workshop in Europe Roma, Italy 24-29 January 2011 Read more

CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory 2011 24-28 January 2011 Read more

Orbital elements: C/2009 K5 (McNaught) T 2010 Apr. 18.616 TT MPC q 1.35690 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 67.954 -0.249289 +0.086998 Node 259.967 -0.670396 +0.703237 e 1.0 Incl. 101.624 +0.698874 +0.705613 From 24 observations 2009 May 27-29. [url=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09K67.html]MP...

Huachuca Astronomy Club will meet at 7 p.m. today in Room 704 of Cochise College's Sierra Vista campus. The speaker will be Dr. Jack Schrader, born in Douglas and a resident of Sierra Vista since 1957. He recently discovered a meteorite that impacted near the Whetstone Mountains. The meeting is open...

An astronomical society welcomed the public at a special event at Bedford School on Wednesday night. Following on from the recent Stargazing Live programmes on BBC2, Bedford Astronomical Society opened the doors of the Bedford School Observatory on Wednesday to interested members of the public...

A nearly century old Oshkosh landmark will soon be history. The Buckstaff Observatory, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is being dismantled and will be moved out of the area. The observatory, which includes three observatory buildings, was developed by Ralph Buckstaf...

Asteroid (3252) Johnny makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.389 AU) on the 21st January, 2011.

Asteroid 4487 Pocahontas makes its closest approach to the Earth (0.931 AU) on the 21st January, 2011. Ephemeris Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2011 01 21 08 52 10.0 -14 55 07 0.9313 1.8193 143.6 18.7 19.2 2011 01 22 08 50 50.4 -14 47 48 0.9312 1.8229 144.2 18.4 19.2 2011 01 23 08 49 30.3 -14 3...

A bright fireball was observed around 21:00 EST, 19th January, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

A ULA Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch the classified NROL-49 (KH-12 Ikon?) spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on the 17th January, 2011. The Delta IV Heavy will launch from the Vandenberg Air Force Base; and will be the first Delta IV Heavy mission to be launched fr...

For decades physicists have been fascinated and frustrated by "heavy fermions" -- electrons that move through a conductor as if their mass were up to 1,000 times what it should be. Now for the first time scientists have produced images of heavy fermion behaviour and resolved a theoretic...