Orbital elements: 2006 OS9 Earth MOID = 0.1233 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 325.40261 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21681295 Peri. 36.18893 -0.92725104 -0.24136287 a 2.7441799 Node 127.28989 +0.19837649 -0.96507151 e 0.9033509 Incl. 21.08933 +0.31757248 -0.10188689 P 4.55 H 17.9 G 0.15 U 1 [...
Work vital to Australia's bid to host the world's most ambitious radio telescope has been delayed by interference from Telstra's mobile phone network, scientists claim. The usefulness of the Molonglo observatory near Canberra, where test work for the $2billion global astronomy project is bein...
John Huchra Dies at 61; Maps Altered Ideas on Universe John Huchra, a man who loved telescopes and whose pioneering maps of a bubbly universe challenged notions of how the galaxies were born, died on Friday at his home in Lexington, Mass. He was 61. [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/us/14h...
Orbital elements:
2010 UM Earth MOID = 0.2027 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC
M 329.09467 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.36462881 Peri. 340.08001 +0.88077077 -0.47084762
a 1.9404483 Node 48.11388 +0.44313468 +0.78195859
e 0.3838009 Incl. 3.88581 +0.16695661 +0.40846453
P 2.70 H 21.7 G 0....
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) held the First Joint Project Team Meeting for establishing a disaster management system called the "Sentinel-Asia"* in the Melia Hanoi Hotel in Hanoi, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on February 14 and 15, 2006.
The meeting, which was o...
The Johnson Space Centre bar that became a local legend for serving NASAs astronauts and employees tasty hamburgers and cold beer was destroyed by an overnight fire Saturday. Fire officials said The Outpost Tavern, near the intersection of NASA Parkway and FM 270, caught fire early Saturday morni...
Kazakhstan is looking to the heavens: Its cabinet on Monday approved a draft version of an ambitious new space technology development program to be implemented over the next four years. Under the new program, the government will devote funds to further develop the scientific and technical knowle...
Shining sand and rocks and other factors have turned Oman into a major site of meteorite discoveries, ranking second only to Antarctica in such findings over the past few years, according to an Omani study. In the few years leading up to 2007, Oman contributed around 14 per cent of all the worlds meteo...
Orbital elements:
P/2010 U2 (Hill)
T 2010 Nov. 9.7461 TT MPC
q 2.556691 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.1110298 Peri. 44.2705 +0.7473018 -0.6643379
a 4.287225 Node 357.2471 +0.4997319 +0.5757475
e 0.403649 Incl. 16.9097 +0.4379589 +0.4766235
P 8.88
From 58 observations 2010 Oct. 1-18. [url=http://w...
The 190 - 430 metre wide asteroid 2010 RP80 will make a close pass (66.0 lunar distances, 0.1696 AU), travelling at 6.40 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th October, 2010 @ 15:00 UT. See more The Lunar Distance...
The 170 - 390 metre wide asteroid 2010 RG137 will make a close pass (47.8 lunar distances, 0.1228 AU), travelling at 7.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd October, 2010 @ 21:42 UT. See more The Lunar Distan...
The 3 - 7 metre wide asteroid 2010 UE made a close pass (0.3 lunar distances, 0.0008 AU), travelling at 17.40 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th October, 2010 @ 10:20 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dist...
Leading Cardiff University astronomers working to advance our knowledge of the Universe and help attract future generations to careers in science are featured in a unique photography exhibition. "Explorers of the Universe" is a unique set of images by leading photographer Max Ale...
Dean Olmstead, 55, president of EchoStar Satellite Services, has died of cancer at a New Jersey hospital, according to the company. Olmstead joined EchoStar January 2008 after the satellite services company was spun off from the Dish DBS service. [url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/4...
A paleontologist told 8-year-old Cameron Tisdale that a rock he found at recess in Chillicothe (chi-li-KAH'-thee) is more than 400 million years old. Scientists also confirmed that a local farmer found a piece of meteorite when he was plowing his fields. [url=http://www.fox59.com/news/sns-a...
