Hurricane Paula (AL18) is forecast to make landfall in Mexico probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 21 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 21 hours Cancun (21.0 N, 87.0 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 33 hours probability for TS is 70% in about 21 hours Cozumel (20.4 N, 87.0 W) p...
It rattled around in an old Folgers can for 30 years in Paul Albertson's Lakeview garage before he found out what it really was -- an interplanetary space traveller. Now, the thumb-size Fitzwater Pass meteorite that he picked up in 1976 while hunting for agates and jasper is generating interest from...
It was a mystery more than three years in the making. Not the bright lights reported across west-central Illinois the evening of Feb. 4, 2007. Most already figured the widespread calls to law enforcement agencies in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois - including Morgan County - were the result of a meteor...
'Pillars of Creation' Formed in the Shadows Research by astronomers at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies suggests that shadows hold the key to how giant star-forming structures like the famous "Pillars of Creation" take shape. The pillars are dense columns within giant cloud...
Meteor Showers There are no major meteor showers this month... September is a month with the best sporadic rates and a few mysterious minor showers. The Alpha Aquarids are active from Aug. 25 to Sept. 5, normally with a ZHR of 10. this year it may be quite active The Delta Aquarids are active September 5...
China successfully launched a remote-sensing satellite "Yaogan XI" Wednesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern Gansu Province. The satellite was sent into space aboard a Long March 2-D carrier rocket at 10:42 a.m. (Beijing Time), according to the centre....
According to a report in Voetbal International, an asteroid has been named after Netherlands and Barcelona legend Johan Cruyff. The asteroid was previously known under the less illustrious name '14282'. Read more
A Michigan Technological University researcher may have solved a long-standing mystery in earth science studies. In Siberia there exist stepped, large-scale basaltic formations known as "traps." The traps formed about 250 million years ago, at a time that about 90 percent of the spe...
Plans to build one of Europe's biggest wind farms on the Isle of Lewis are set to be turned down, BBC Scotland understands. The BBC's Gaelic news service, Radio nan Gaidheal, has learned that Scottish Government ministers are "minded to refuse" the 181 turbine scheme. More than 5,000 let...
Orbital elements: 2010 BK118 Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 359.87361 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00019576 Peri. 178.65932 +0.99854274 -0.03408703 a 293.7590326 Node 175.92497 -0.05335268 -0.50692942 e 0.9791498 Incl. 143.93124 -0.00811704 -0.86131332 P 5030 H 10.3 G 0.15 [url=http://www...
Hurricane Igor (AL11) is forecast to make landfall in Canada. Greenland probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 69 hours probability for TS is 100% in about 33 hours
A Colombian physicist proposed the theory that the "giant fireball" glimpsed in the skies above the Santander department on Sunday may have been a fragment of a Russian satellite. Arturo Plata, the director of the Santander Industrial University (UIS) Halley Group of Astronomy and A...
The transient universe: from exoplanets to hypernovaeRoyal Irish Academy 19 Dawson Street Dublin Start Time: 23 Sep 2010 - 09:30 End Time: 24 Sep 2010 - 19:00 A joint specialist two day discussion meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Astronomical Scie...
