An international team of astronomers at The Johns Hopkins University, have announced the first results from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious all-sky spectroscopic survey aimed at measuring the speed, temperature, surface gravity and composition of up to a million stars pas...
Paper Mill Employee Frank Kovac Creates World's Largest, Rolling, Mechanical Globe Planetarium Robert Briggs is town chairman of Monico, Wis., the town where Frank launched his space program. Monico has a three-pump gas station, a two-bit bar -- and now, thanks to Frank Kovac -- one remote planet...
A magnitude 16.1 extragalactic nova, M33 2010 - 11a, was discovered on the 27th November by J. Ruan and X. Gao in the galaxy M33 in the constellation Triangulum. The nova is located 301" west and 1329" south from the center of the galaxy Position(2000): RA = 01 33 27.55, Dec = +30°17'28"...
Title: The High-Metallicity Explosion Environment of the Relativistic Supernova 2009bb Authors: E. M. Levesque, A. M. Soderberg, R. J. Foley, E. Berger, L. J. Kewley, S. Chakraborti, A. Ray, M. A. P. Torres, P. Challis, R. P. Kirshner, S. D. Barthelmy, M. F. Bietenholz, P. Chandra, V. Chaplin, R. A...
Title: WASP-31b: a low-density planet transiting a late-F-type star Authors: D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, C. Hellier, M. Lendl, T. A. Lister, P. F. L. Maxted, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, A. M. S. Smith, A. H. M. J. Triaud, R. G. West, D. J. A. Brown, M. Gillon, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, D. Segransan, R. A. S...
Orbital elements: 2010 WK1 Earth MOID = 0.0019 AU Epoch 2010 Nov. 20.0 TT = JDT 2455520.5 MPC M 353.68783 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23861636 Peri. 205.02391 +0.00300073 -0.99522390 a 2.5743598 Node 244.93189 +0.93464966 +0.03748419 e 0.6293477 Incl. 6.18385 +0.35555733 -0.09013509 P 4.13 H 28.2 G 0.15 Fro...
O3b Networks announced today that it has secured its final funding round before service launch. O3b Networks is the developer of a new fibre-quality, satellite-based global internet backbone for Telecommunications Operators and Internet Service Providers serving the emerging markets. The c...
A Chinese Long-March-3 CZ-3A rocket body that was launched on the 31st July, 2010, from the Xichang space launch centre in Sichuan, China, for the Beidou (Compass) navigation satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 25th November, 2010 @ 18:42 GMT ±23 hours. TLE Da...
Thundersnow, also known as a winter thunderstorm or a thunder snowstorm, is a thunderstorm with snow falling as the primary precipitation instead of rain. On the 26th and 27th leading into the 28th of November 2010, Aberdeen, Scotland experienced Thundersnow, including hail stones which were of...
After years of offering visitors to its Charles Hayden Planetarium a static view of space focused mostly on stars, planets, and constellations, an entirely new, and more interactive, experience is scheduled to open at the Museum of Science on Feb. 13. The stars of the new $9 million creation are a po...
Sea Launch will launch the Intelsat 17 communications satellite in late 2010, as the first of five missions on the Sea Launch system in a previously announced multiple launch services contract with Intelsat, Ltd., the worlds leading provider of fixed satellite services. Built by Space Systems/L...
G.J. Garradd (Siding Spring Survey) has discovered a new comet on the 13 August, 2008, which was later confirmed by observations by C. Jacques and E. Pimentel (CEAMIG-REA Observatory). The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on July 2, 2009, at a distance of...
The nights are really closing, in so make sure you wrap up before any outdoor observing. In Novembers night sky, due north is the Ursa Major (The plough). The star Polaris can be found by following the 'pointer stars' to the end of the tail of Ursa Minor (the little bear). Arcturus, the brightest star in...
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