Residents in Pretoria were awestruck by a reported UFO sighting, which appeared for two consecutive nights in the town of Booysens. The UFO disappeared beyond the horizon at around 8.30pm on Wednesday night, but reappeared the next night, with Van der Spuy calling her neighbours. [url=http://te...
Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space is a project led by the European Space Agency which will place an ultra-stable atomic clock on the International Space Station. Source The fact that time can be measured very precisel...
The U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN) has identified two accidental collisions between orbiting satellites.
One recent collision occurred in January 17 2005, while the other is a much older event which occurred in 1991 but has just now been recognized.
The recent collision involved a 31...
Iran Unveils Largest Home-Made Telescope Iran's first Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi unveiled the telescope dubbed as 'Tara' in a ceremony also attended by a number of lawmakers as well as governors of Isfahan and Markazi province in the central city of Golpayegan. [url=http://english.f...
Orbital elements: 2006 VC PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0206 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 113.06152 (2000.0) P Q n 0.36432196 Peri. 19.16575 -0.28119305 -0.93592283 a 1.9415377 Node 87.61247 +0.85041811 -0.34542521 e 0.4917005 Incl. 12.25521 +0.44465662 +0.06877409 P 2.71 H 20.0 G 0.15 U...
Title: Chandra HETG Observations of the Colliding Stellar Wind System WR 147 Authors: Svetozar A. Zhekov, Sangwook Park We present an extended analysis of deep Chandra HETG observations of the WR+OB binary system WR 147 that was resolved into a double X-ray source (Zhekov & Park, 2010, ApJ, 70...
Title: The Araucaria Project. Infrared TRGB distances to the Carina and Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxies Authors: G. Pietrzynski, M. Gorski, W. Gieren, V. Ivanov, F. Bresolin, R.P. Kudritzki We present distance determinations for two Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies, Carina and Fornax,...
Title: Studying the Physical Diversity of Late-M Dwarfs with Dynamical Masses Authors: Trent Dupuy, Michael Liu, Brendan Bowler, Michael Cushing, Christiane Helling, Soeren Witte, Peter Hauschildt We present a systematic study of the physical properties of late-M dwarfs based on high-quali...
Title: Discovery of a new Soft Gamma Repeater, SGR J1833-0832 Authors: E. Gogus, G. Cusumano, A.J. Levan, C. Kouveliotou, T. Sakamoto, S.D. Barthelmy, S. Campana, Y. Kaneko, B.W. Stappers, A. de Ugarte-Postigo, T. Strohmayer, D.M. Palmer, J. Gelbord, D.N. Burrows, A.J. van der Horst, T. Munoz-D...
A total solar eclipse will occur on July 11, 2010. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. Read more
For the second time in three years, China has shot down one of its dysfunctional satellites with a missile, US-based Foreign Policy magazine reported in its latest issue. The destruction of the satellite, which reportedly happened in January, shows China's defensive missile ability, the magazi...
A ULA Delta II rocket in a 7920-10 vehicle configuration is scheduled to launch the Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstrators mission for the Missile Defence Agency, from SLC-17B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, at 12:00 GMT, 23rd September, 2009. There is a 1 hour launch w...
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