Researchers are hoping a fresh slice of a rare 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite will yield new information about our planet. Using a diamond-wire saw, mineralogists at the Royal Ontario Museum cut into the 53-kilogram space rock for media cameras in the laboratory room. Kim Tait, a ROM associate c...
Visitors to the Yorkshire Museum can take a close-up look through the Museum's 160-year-old telescope, standing in an observatory in the gardens. The observatory was built in 1832 and 1833 and its 4in refractor telescope was built by York man Thomas Cooke in 1850 before he went on to make the then-la...
Don Backer, astrophysicist and discoverer of millisecond pulsars, dies at 66 Don Backer, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley who discovered the first millisecond pulsar, died on 25 July. He was director of Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Laboratory and the Allen Telescope A...
Maxima of long period variable ST Andromedae on the 31st July, 2010. Magnitude: 8.2-11.8 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 23 38 45.1349, Dec +35 46 21.234
Exhibition: Space Race, National Space Centre, Leicester, until September 5 2010 More than 50 years ago, on October 4 1957, America held its breath when news came in that the Soviet Union had launched the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. Though only a low-orbit structure, the success o...
One of the 64 comets discovered by Australian astronomer Robert McNaught may become a splendid sight the first few days of July. At 10 p.m. on the northwest horizon, you will see the stars Castor and Pollux, the heads of the Gemini twins. Comet McNaught (C/2009 R1) should be swooping in from the north a...
New prehistoric shrimp colonies found at Caerlaverock Two new colonies of one of the UK's most ancient creatures have been discovered in south west Scotland. The tadpole shrimps - which date back at least 220 million years - have been found at the Caerlaverock reserve in Dumfries and Galloway. [url...
Moon rock lands in Dundee for summer exhibition Samples of rock and lunar dust collected during Nasa's manned space missions to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s have been loaned to Dundee Science Centre. Read more...
Orbital elements: 2010 HD112 Epoch 2010 May 4.0 TT = JDT 2455320.5 MPC M 0.04634 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00332068 Peri. 310.15813 -0.63658907 +0.76830896 a 44.4957370 Node 280.17514 -0.68534817 -0.60328567 e 0.0303980 Incl. 3.88865 -0.35362727 -0.21388723 P 297 H 6.5 G 0.15 From 6 observations 2010 Apr...
Title: A New Small-Amplitude Variable Hot DQ White Dwarf Authors: B. H. Dunlap, B. N. Barlow, J. C. Clemens We present the discovery of photometric variations in the carbon-dominated atmosphere (hot DQ) white dwarf star SDSS J133710.19-002643.6. We find evidence for two low-amplitude, harmoni...
Title: On the Orbit of Visual Binary WDS 01158-6853 I-27CD (SAO248342) Authors: S.Siregar WDS 01158-6853 I-27CD=SA0 248342 has the proper motion +404. in right ascension and 105. in declination. Magnitude of each star is 7.84 for primary and 8.44 for secondary, separated by 320. from the quadrup...
Plaskett telescope celebrates 90th anniversary One week could have made all the difference to one of Saanichs most iconic landmarks. As of next Tuesday, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory atop Little Saanich Mountain will have been visible across the region for exactly 90 years. [url=http...
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