The change of plans was not the result of any time travel, but a consequence of the transformation that the city is undergoing to serve as a filming location for the latest blockbuster to be shot in Malta. On Monday morning, the films crew were adding the finishing touches to a number of streets which ha...
The 130 - 290 metre wide asteroid 2001 OT will make a close pass (54.8 lunar distances, 0.1407 AU), travelling at 8.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd July, 2010 @ 06:48 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
A date with space at Panchkula planetarium soon Giving enthusiasts a huge opportunity to delve into the universe of astronomy, International Space Society (ISS) would soon set up a planetarium in Panchkula. To be the first such centre in region, the place is proposed to come up by January-end and wo...
Help wanted to solve UFO mysteries Pulsating, the orb's colour changed from orange to red, hovering overhead somewhere above in the twilight transition between day and night, far brighter than any star. For one pair of astonished onlookers who saw this strange spectacle while clearing up from a fa...
NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are soccer-ball-shaped molecules that were first observed in a labora...
The 150 - 330 metre wide asteroid 2000 QV7 will make a close pass (58.9 lunar distances, 0.1513 AU), travelling at 20.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th August, 2010 @ 18:24 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...
Scientists return this week to the world’s deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth’s most extreme regions and potentially in outer space. If all goes well with this second round of...
Using high-tech robotic cameras, a team of scientists is getting a rare first glimpse of marine life in the North Atlantic that could shed light on the ocean's ecosystem and climate to as far back as 1,000 years. Images of tulip-shaped sponges, brightly coloured corals, delicate pink stars and feat...
Ice block from aircraft smashes into home in Chichester A huge block of ice believed to have fallen from an aircraft crashed through the roof of a property in West Sussex as the homeowners slept. Vince Foot and his wife were in bed when the ice smashed a 0.6m hole in the roof at Summerdale Court, Chichest...
The first official image of a Russian-European manned spacecraft has been unveiled. It is designed to replace the Soyuz vehicle currently in use by Russia and will allow Europe to participate directly in crew transportation. [url=http://new...
Orbital elements: 2010 OC Earth MOID = 0.0679 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 351.40643 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20662271 Peri. 28.39094 +0.98671660 +0.10190118 a 2.8336792 Node 325.04332 -0.15549737 +0.81786553 e 0.6314346 Incl. 12.75684 +0.04702043 +0.56631450 P 4.77 H 18.8 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Research Yields Greater Precision in Determining Age of Meteorites Researchers have aged dated a very important group of meteorites with far greater precision than previously possible by using a different type of radioactive dating on a particularly difficult type of specimen to study. The pro...
THE STANDARD MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE: THEORY AND OBSERVATIONS Observatoire de Paris, Paris campus Thursday 22 , Friday 23 and Saturday 24 July 2010 The Conference is within the astrofundamental physics spirit of the Chalonge School, focalised on recent observational and theoretical progress on t...
A magnitude 19 supernova, 2010gk, was discovered by Li, Cenko et al. at the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) on the 17th July, 2010, in the edge-on starburst galaxy NGC 5433 in the constellation Canes Venatici. The supernova is located 1.9" West and 6.3" South from the center of t...
