The 3 - 6 metre wide asteroid 2010 WA will make a close pass (0.1 lunar distances, 0.00023 AU), travelling at 13.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th November, 2010 @ 03:44 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), t...
Shortly before 20:00 in the Grdelica area a loud explosion was heard which was assumed to be caused by a falling meteor. A meteorite is reported to have fallen near the village of Sueve code Predaana. Read more (Russian)
The launch campaign for the tenth Proton mission in 2010 has officially started in Baikonur with the arrival of the SkyTerra 1 spacecraft. This campaign started only three days after the completion of the prior commercial Proton mission lofting the SIRIUS XM-5 satellite for SIRIUS XM Radio. SkyTe...
China Great Wall Industry Corp agrees to buy 20 rockets, 8 satellites China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) agreed Tuesday to buy 20 rockets and eight telecommunications satellites from two Chinese technological institutes Tuesday. CGWIC, China's only satellite launcher for oversea...
Descendants of Adelaide scientists sought A hunt is on for descendants of early Adelaide's brightest minds to see if a love affair with science runs in the blood. South Australia was the fledgling colony's first free settlement and many scientists flocked to the city in the early years, says Royal I...
A Russian Soyuz-U rocket with the Progress M-05 M/37P cargo ship is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 17:15 GMT, 28th April, 2010. The purpose of the mission is to delivery a Russian segment to the International Space Station (ISS). Docking to the station is schedule...
NASA's IceBite project will spend three austral summers in Antarctica testing ice-penetrating drills for a future mission to Mars. A team of seven scientists recently returned from the first field season, installing scientific probes in the ice and frozen ground, and scouting for sites where th...
Scientists To Probe Lake Rotomahana Scientists from the New Zealand and the United States are planning to use two torpedo-like unmanned underwater vehicles to map the bottom of Lake Rotomahana, near Rotorua, and look for hydrothermal activity on the lake bed. [url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/sto...
Demonic device converts information to energy The laws of physics say that you can't get energy for nothing -- worse still, you will always get out of a system less energy than you put in. But a nanoscale experiment inspired by a nineteenth-century paradox that seemed to break those laws now shows tha...
On a cloudless night, Earthlings gathered to get a closer look at the universe. More than 900 people attended Starry Night, an annual public stargazing event, on Friday to peer through telescopes and peruse astronomy exhibits at the Florida Museum of Natural History. [url=http://www.alligat...
GRETINA Moves Into Its Cave Part of what fascinates scientists about nuclear physics and chemistry is learning just how the natural elements came into being. All the elements heavier than iron - over three-quarters of the entries in the periodic table - were created by exploding stars. While their...
The 470 - 1000 metre wide asteroid 2010 US7 will make a close pass (64.1 lunar distances, 0.1646 AU), travelling at 36.49 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th November, 2010 @ 08:19 UT. See more The Lunar Distanc...
The 410 - 920 metre wide asteroid 2001 UX4 will make a close pass (58.4 lunar distances, 0.1501 AU), travelling at 21.50 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th November, 2010 @ 22:07 UT. See more The Lunar Distance...
The 19 - 41 metre wide asteroid 2010 UP7 will make a close pass (27.1 lunar distances, 0.0697 AU), travelling at 7.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th November, 2010 @ 16:57 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...