Finding Caves on Earth, the Moon, and Mars Scientists are furthering the ability to detect caves on Earth, the moon and Mars by studying the conditions under which caves are detectable in thermal infrared. Finding caves on Earth is important for locating habitats of bats and other animal populatio...
The PERSEUS 001 cubesatellite 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 atmosphere on the 30th December, 2010 @ 23:54 GMT ±72 hours. TLE Data pre>P...
The PERSEUS 003 cubesatellite 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 atmosphere on the 31st December, 2010 @ 01:51 GMT ±72 hours. TLE Data pre>P...
December brings stargazers a sleighful of astronomical gifts, among them a lovely lunar eclipse, terrific views of Jupiter and an always reliable meteor shower. One of the best lunar eclipses in several years (at least for observers in North America) starts around 11 p.m. Dec. 20 and ends about 3:3...
Orbital elements: 2010 YW Earth MOID = 0.0138 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 8.18354 (2000.0) P Q n 0.41739462 Peri. 200.44290 -0.55215630 -0.82021303 a 1.7732562 Node 283.35024 +0.78471275 -0.45063969 e 0.4468925 Incl. 8.84337 +0.28169010 -0.35238396 P 2.36 H 23.8 G 0.15 U 7 MPEC 2...
Title: First-Order Special Relativistic Corrections to Kepler's Orbits Authors: Tyler J. Lemmon, Antonio R. Mondragon Beginning with a Lagrangian that is consistent with both Newtonian gravity and the momentum-velocity relation of special relativity, an approximate relativistic orbit eq...
Suspected Meteor Startles Western Md. Stargazers Some western Maryland residents said an apparent meteor put on a sky show they won't soon forget. Al Labrush, of Frederick, said the shooting star on Tuesday made the hair on the back of his neck stand up as it moved through the evening sky shortly befo...
The PERSEUS 002 cubesatellite 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 atmosphere on the 30th December, 2010 @ 01:05 GMT ±48 hours. TLE Data pre>P...
The PERSEUS 000 cubesatellite 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 atmosphere on the 29th December, 2010 @ 22:29 GMT ±72 hours. TLE Data pre>P...
Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has signed a contract with Korea Telecom (KT) to provide their next telecommunication satellite, Koreasat 6. For this contract, Thales Alenia Space teamed with U.S manufacturer, Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) who will provide satellite pla...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it shipped a communications satellite, designed and built for HISPASAT Group, to the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where it is scheduled to launch next month aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle....
Orbital elements: 2010 YS PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0113 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 18.15424 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27090209 Peri. 324.97497 +0.43028811 -0.87785641 a 2.3655265 Node 98.71203 +0.86916042 +0.34000338 e 0.6060416 Incl. 12.28302 +0.24374641 +0.33729191 P 3.64 H 22.0 G 0.15 U 6...
CANARY: First On-Sky Demonstration of Multi-Object Adaptive Optics A Franco-British team has demonstrated for the first time on-sky the feasibility of so-called Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO). MOAO provides the high spatial resolution delivered by current adaptive-optics systems, b...
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