Hegins man suspects meteorite struck home Whatever struck Ralph Lucht's home in Hegins punched a hole through asphalt shingles and the flashing on the roof. Lucht believes a meteorite may have struck his Pine Drive home at the end of July or beginning of August. The metal of the white flashing is peel...
Maxima of the long period variable R Ursa Minoris (HD 149683) on the 17th August, 2010. Magnitude: 9.1-10.4 Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 16 29 57.8962, Dec +72 16 49.157
Maxima of the long period variable S Indae (HD 199003) on the 17th August, 2010. Magnitude: 8.2-15 Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 20 56 23.2600, Dec -54 19 26.864
Orbital elements: 2010 PS66 Earth MOID = 0.0148 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 357.79920 (2000.0) P Q n 0.63064426 Peri. 126.15680 +0.53605930 +0.84417953 a 1.3467276 Node 176.25841 -0.78011676 +0.49590312 e 0.2424489 Incl. 1.01842 -0.32258063 +0.20357066 P 1.56 H 24.6 G 0.15 U 8...
Title: Discovery of a Highly Unequal-Mass Binary T Dwarf with Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics: A Coevality Test of Substellar Theoretical Models and Effective Temperatures Authors: Michael C. Liu, Trent J. Dupuy (IfA/Hawaii), S. K. Leggett (Gemini) Highly unequal-mass ratio binaries ar...
NIWA confirms collapse of undersea volcano The aptly named 'Rumble III' undersea volcano on the Kermadec Ridge, 200 km northeast of Auckland, has dropped in height by 120 metres in the last couple of years, pioneering research by NIWA has shown. [url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1008/S0...
Around the world in 80 days for solar powered cars Teams from three continents have set off from the Place des Nations in Geneva with their electric cars on the longest and greenest race of all time, called the Zero Race. Read more
Orbital elements: 2010 OH126 Earth MOID = 0.0639 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 9.76454 (2000.0) P Q n 0.41688049 Peri. 174.70797 +0.04550376 +0.97105549 a 1.7747138 Node 97.75124 -0.92499479 +0.12959708 e 0.4642240 Incl. 13.68842 -0.37724534 -0.20063854 P 2.36 H 21.3 G 0.15 U 8 [...
Eddisbury Hill gives up its secrets Eddisbury Hill is slowly revealing its iron age secrets as a team of archaeologists and volunteers dig to the past. Guardian chief reporter Gina Bebbington ventured up the hill, at Delamere Forest, on Thursday to see what had been uncovered as the excavation near...
Antarctica Meteorite Called Big Lew. Big Lew is enclosed in a glass protective case at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Big Lew weighs in at 250 pounds and was discovered in the 1980s in Antarctica's Lewis Cliffs Icefield. Big Lew is clas...
Title: Holocene drainage systems of the English Fenland: roddons and their environmental significance Authors: Dinah M. Smith, Jan A. Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Ian P. Wilkinson, Martin Redding and Crane Begg The roddons of the English Fenlands are fossilised silt and sand-filled tidal cree...
Orbital elements: 2009 VS25 Earth MOID = 0.0368 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 308.10833 (2000.0) P Q n 1.02133793 Peri. 313.61342 -0.99791889 +0.00195912 a 0.9765393 Node 226.61201 +0.02013399 -0.94009649 e 0.2742183 Incl. 5.08819 -0.06125773 -0.34090285 P 0.97 H 24.4 G 0.15 U 9 [...
The 120 - 270 metre wide asteroid 2005 LW3 will make a close pass (43.4 lunar distances, 0.1114 AU), travelling at 16.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th November, 2010 @ 18:39 UT. See more The Lunar Distance...
The 620 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2002 EZ16 will make a close pass (73.9 lunar distances, 0.1898 AU), travelling at 19.81 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th November, 2010 @ 23:40 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...