Man donates large telescope to OUZ From the warmth of his front porch, Hudnall Lewis watched as a crew from Zemba Brothers hauled away something very important to him Monday. With the help of some heavy equipment, the shiny silver observatory that held his best telescope was loaded and taken to Ohio U...
The Croatian Parliament proclaimed 2011 a national "Boscovich Year," marking the 300th anniversary of the birth of a learned Croatian Jesuit, Father Rogelio Joseph Boscovich Bettera. Father Boscovich Bettera (1711-1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, architect, p...
The SMDC-ONE (Space Missile Defense Command - Operational Nanosatellite Effect) Nanosatellite that was launched on the 8th December, 2010, from the Launch Complex 40 at the Air Force Station at Cape Canaveral, with SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosph...
Orbital elements: 2011 AY22 Earth MOID = 0.0018 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 356.31100 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32103068 Peri. 218.61134 -0.97063408 -0.24047196 a 2.1123783 Node 307.47302 +0.22270416 -0.88798012 e 0.5990229 Incl. 0.47188 +0.09095244 -0.39200069 P 3.07 H 27.1 G 0.15 U 8 M...
Orbital elements: 2011 AZ22 Earth MOID = 0.0022 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 21.19606 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33694428 Peri. 311.99532 +0.46849419 -0.87518747 a 2.0453329 Node 109.69320 +0.84372812 +0.40272626 e 0.5747464 Incl. 7.36335 +0.26198483 +0.26806428 P 2.93 H 28.6 G 0.15 U 8 MP...
Title: The Distance to the Massive Eclipsing Binary LMC-SC1-105 in the Large Magellanic Cloud Authors: Alceste Z. Bonanos, Norberto Castro, Lucas M. Macri, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki This paper presents the first distance measurement to the massive, semi-detached, eclipsing binary LMC-SC1-105,...
KSLA News 12 has received several calls from viewers who say they saw a flash of light or a flaming object in the air over Barksdale Air Force Base. Read more
Orbital elements: 2011 AA23 Earth MOID = 0.0329 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 27.95822 (2000.0) P Q n 0.65185365 Peri. 346.30848 -0.13145425 -0.98489340 a 1.3173545 Node 111.15164 +0.92052057 -0.16347294 e 0.2312464 Incl. 6.94161 +0.36791529 +0.05711039 P 1.51 H 23.5 G 0.15 U 8 MP...
The 310 - 690 metre wide asteroid 1992 BF will make a close pass (70.1 lunar distances, 0.1801 AU), travelling at 7.32 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th January, 2011 @ 23:43 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Occultation of the magnitude +3.62, Spectral type G7 III multiple star Eta Piscium in the constellation Pisces by the Moon. The event is visible from South Africa and South America. Eta Piscium is approximately 294 light years from Earth. 21:20 - 23:25 UT, 12th January, 2011 Position(2000): RA 01...
Title: A framework and methodology for reporting geographically and temporally resolved solar data: A case study of TexasAuthors: David M. Wogan, Michael Webber, and Alexandre K. da Silva This paper presents a framework and methodology for reporting measured solar radiation data. Geographic...
Planck's successful hunt probes galaxy clusters on very broad mass range The first all-sky survey of galaxy clusters detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is amongst the highlights presented by the Planck Collaboration at a conference held from 10 to 14 January 2011 in Paris, France. The su...
Orbital elements: 2011 AM16 Earth MOID = 0.1893 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 346.12610 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30143488 Peri. 87.27111 -0.93376323 +0.24591206 a 2.2029622 Node 106.86333 -0.32200308 -0.89437464 e 0.5772757 Incl. 15.76602 +0.15620580 -0.37365928 P 3.27 H 22.3 G 0.15 U 9 M...
Orbital elements: 2011 AN16 Earth MOID = 0.2489 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 354.86187 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21580436 Peri. 335.64033 -0.87805515 -0.47812833 a 2.7527234 Node 175.63242 +0.47106777 -0.87101044 e 0.5558014 Incl. 15.46652 +0.08434630 -0.11284550 P 4.57 H 18.8 G 0.15 U 8...
Orion SkyScanner 100mm TableTop Reflector 100mm parabolic primary mirror. Includes two 1.25" eyepieces: 20mm (20 power) and 10mm (40 power). EZ Finder II reflex sight. Price : $ 99.95 See more
