Derby inner ring road to be named Lara Croft Way A new £36.2m Derby road is to be named after computer game and movie character Lara Croft following a public vote. More than 27,000 people took part in the vote to name the new road. Lara Croft Way captured 89 percent of the votes; the other options for the ro...
The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society July 26-30, 2010, in the City of New York, New York, USA. The scientific program will be held at the Park Central Hotel (870 7th Ave. at 56th St.) in upper midtown Manhattan, a 20 minute walk from the AMNH, across 7th Avenue from Carnegie Hall, steps f...
On July 15, 2010, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Matthew Kogle and recent graduate Kelly Hoehn meet in Weeks Hall for Geological Science to discuss locations in southern Wisconsin that were visited as part of the USArray program. The program involves a network of scientific in...
Title: The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: Discovery of a Close Substellar Companion to the Young Debris Disk Star PZ Tel Authors: Beth A. Biller, Michael C. Liu, Zahed Wahhaj, Eric L. Nielsen, Laird M. Close, Trent J. Dupuy, Thomas L. Hayward, Adam Burrows, Mark Chun, Christ Ftaclas, Fraser...
Spitzer Space Telescope Surveys the Milky Way's Outback A new survey mission by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has turned up treasures aplenty in the outer regions of the Milky Way, where amidst fogs of interstellar chemicals some rare, young and enormous stars are blasting gas out into space. The...
On Mars Day, the Red Planet Is Centre Stage Mars Day at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington is a celebration of our solar system's most famous planet. The event, on July sixteenth, was a rare chance for planetary scientists to share with the public the mysteries of Mars. [url=http://ww...
A spectacular new image from ESO's Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the brilliant and unusual star WR 22 and its colourful surroundings. WR 22 is a very hot and bright star that is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster than the Sun. It lies i...
Giant fireball in the sky baffles Cape Town residents Eyewitnesses in Cape Towns northern suburbs reported seeing a strange celestial sight on Monday night. Shortly after 10pm many residents witnessed a giant fireball falling from the sky. [url=http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/articlepro...
A heatwave in Scotland has killed off midges in record numbers, according to an expert at Edinburgh University.
The biting insect, which is notorious for blighting holidays in Scotland, thrives in warm, damp conditions.
Dr Alison Blackwell said about 30% fewer midges had been counted this...
Title: GALEX and Pan-STARRS1 Discovery of SN IIP 2010aq: The First Days After Shock Breakout in a Red Supergiant Star Authors: S. Gezari, A. Rest, M. E. Huber, G. Narayan, K. Forster, J. D. Neill, D. C. Martin, S. Valenti, S. J. Smartt, R. Chornock, E. Berger, A. M. Soderberg, S. Mattila, E. Kankare, W....
Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in three of these systems have been found to have two or more planets. Planets, it appears, come in bun...
The magnitude 15.4 asteroid (1200) Imperatrix will occult the magnitude 3.9 multiple star Gamma Librae (HD 138905) in the constellation Libra, at 05:13 UT, 28th July 2010. The 5.5 second event is visible from Central America and Hawaii. Position (2000): RA 15 35 31.5790, Dec -14 47 22.333
