Students excited about opportunity provided by donated telescopes A rare gift found its way to Coshocton High School this summer, and a couple of teachers are working to come up with the best solution to get the most from it. Lisa Akers, eighth-grade earth science teacher, learned a local resident w...
Microlensing variability in the gravitationally lensed quasar QSO 2237+0305 = the Einstein Cross. Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole with Natural Magnifying Glasses Combining a double natural "magnifying glass" with the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronome...
Orbital elements: 2010 YD Earth MOID = 0.0016 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 4.11681 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33833896 Peri. 39.79769 -0.69059989 -0.72319671 a 2.0397082 Node 93.88141 +0.66159325 -0.63596765 e 0.5375025 Incl. 0.43849 +0.29217487 -0.26931702 P 2.91 H 26.5 G 0.15 U 7 MPEC 201...
Orbital elements: 2003 EH1 Epoch 2003 Mar. 2.0 TT = JDT 2452700.5 MPC M 0.37663 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27413968 Peri. 175.38955 -0.22050074 -0.36293089 a 2.3468650 Node 284.41597 +0.86235221 +0.36118355 e 0.5007873 Incl. 69.19326 +0.45577197 -0.85896892 P 3.60 H 16.8 G 0.15 From 17 observations 2003 M...
The 160 - 360 metre wide asteroid 2010 RR179 will make a close pass (60.9 lunar distances, 0.1565 AU), travelling at 11.06 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th December, 2010 @ 07:05 UT ±1 minute. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (...
The 30 - 66 metre wide asteroid 2010 XW will make a close pass (19.8 lunar distances, 0.0510 AU), travelling at 8.00 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th December, 2010 @ 00:54 UT ±2 days 05:36. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
Benjamin F. Peery, Howard University astronomer, dies at 88 Benjamin F. Peery, 88, an astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career as a professor at Howard University, died Nov. 30 at his home in Silver Spring. He had dementia. An expert on the chemical makeup of stars, Dr. Peery was a profes...
The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC as a reform of the Roman calendar. It came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year (known at least sin...
The 15 - 34 metre wide asteroid 2010 XN69 will make a close pass (4.3 lunar distances, 0.0111 AU), travelling at 8.19 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th December, 2010 @ 22:42 UT ±2 days 03:19. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
Title: Novel Higgs Decays and Dark Matter in the E(6)SSM Authors: J. P. Hall, S. F. King, R. Nevzorov, S. Pakvasa, M. Sher The Exceptional Supersymmetric (SUSY) Standard Model predicts three families of Higgs doublets plus three Higgs singlets, where one family develops vacuum expectation value...
Orchid Island to catch country's first sunrise of 2011 Taiwan's outlying Orchid Island will be the first location in the country to welcome the sun on New Year's Day, with the first glimpse of the rising sun expected at 6: 33 a.m., the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Friday. For those hoping to greet...
ESA's micro-satellite Proba observes the active Bromo volcano, a popular tourist attraction of East Java in Indonesia.
Indonesia is located within the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' volcano belt and has more than a hundred active volcanoes within its territory. With around 200 mill...
Title: Worldwide R&D of Virtual Observatory Authors: Chenzhou Cui, Yongheng Zhao (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Virtual Observatory (VO) is a data intensive online astronomical research and education environment, taking advantages of advanced in...
Methane-Metal Marriage UA scientists have inserted metal atoms into methane gas molecules and obtained a detailed structure of the resulting molecule. The discovery could be a key step in making hydrocarbons available to chemical production and broadening our understanding of how nature uses...
The 57 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2003 WP7 will make a close pass (39.6 lunar distances, 0.1017 AU), travelling at 11.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th December, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
