"When Generals Stafford and Leonov, both wearing Omega Speedmasters, shook hands in space on July 17, 1975, an era of cooperation in space began which would lead to the building of a permanently occupied space station." The brand commemorates that historic handshake with the Omega Spe...
A new global treaty banning cluster munitions has come into force. The Convention on Cluster Munitions bans the stockpiling, use and transfer of virtually all existing cluster bombs, and also provides for the clearing up of unexploded munitions. It has been adopted by 108 states, of which 38 have r...
The 370 - 820 metre wide asteroid 2007 VC138 will make a close pass (46.5 lunar distances, 0.1195 AU), travelling at 17.67 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th November, 2010 @ 09:17 UT. See more The Lunar Dist...
Julian Starfest 2010 August 5th - 8th, 2010 Menghini Winery, Julian, CA Free Public Star Party Saturday Night, August 7, 2010! Anyone can enjoy the Julian Starfest by participating in the free public star party on Saturday, August 7, 2010. Arrive in Julian between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and you ca...
Orbital elements: 2010 CM Earth MOID = 0.2480 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 317.04645 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23327634 Peri. 93.46975 -0.76744249 +0.63247771 a 2.6134985 Node 125.79392 -0.62751577 -0.70751225 e 0.5370873 Incl. 7.43066 -0.13136203 -0.31527507 P 4.23 H 18.3 G 0.15 U 6 [url...
China will launch its fifth orbiter into space, as part of its satellite navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system, in the next few days. Read more
About 25 million years ago, volcanoes of Erciyes, Hasandag and Melendiz mountains erupted and covered Cappadocia with a layer of tuff. Over millennia, this tuff layer gradually wore off and produced formations that has inspired cave art in this region. Kizilirmak river and its streams, cut deep i...
Asteroid (31531) ARRL -- joins the prestigious company as one of more than 16,000 named minor planets in our solar system. A minor planet -- such as an asteroid --is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a dominant planet -- such as Mercury, Saturn and Neptune -- nor a co...
Google has just launched a new service called "Google Mars" that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.
Google has included three different types of data in Google Mars.
* Elevation - A shaded relief map, generated with data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter...
Chinese lantern causes crop fire near Woodstock A Chinese lantern released as part of birthday celebrations caused a severe crop fire when it landed in an Oxfordshire field. Crews were called to Stonesfield, near Woodstock, at 2130 BST on Friday, to seven hectares of Barley crop on fire. [url=http...
Atlas V is an active expendable launch system in the Atlas rocket family. Atlas V was formerly operated by Lockheed Martin, and is now operated by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance. Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid ox...
Orbital elements: 2010 LG61 Earth MOID = 0.0514 AU Epoch 2010 May 24.0 TT = JDT 2455340.5 MPC M 131.26111 (2000.0) P Q n 1.28825946 Peri. 240.42492 -0.15788239 -0.98542149 a 0.8365023 Node 218.82124 +0.93735431 -0.12937513 e 0.2479860 Incl. 5.80306 +0.31054799 -0.11048331 P 0.77 H 23.4 G 0.15 Fro...
The 510 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 2003 MJ4 will make a close pass (62.9 lunar distances, 0.1615 AU), travelling at 12.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st July, 2010 @ 06:54 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD...
