Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have discovered the first known case of a distant galaxy being magnified by a quasar acting as a gravitational lens. The discovery, based in part on observations d...
The 240 - 540 metre wide asteroid 2004 TC10 will make a close pass (58.7 lunar distances, 0.1509 AU), travelling at 14.96 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th November, 2010 @ 09:41 UT. See more The Lunar Distanc...
'UFO' disturbs air traffic in East China The municipal government in China have revealed that an unidentified flying object (UFO) recently disrupted air traffic over Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. Read more
SSTL kicks off small satellite for Kazakhstan SSTL has commenced building a small satellite for the Republic of Kazakhstan that will provide medium resolution multi-spectral earth observation capability to complement the high resolution satellite that is being provided by EADS Astrium as par...
A possible magnitude 14.9 supernova was discovered on the 18th July, 2010, in the spiral galaxy IC 4660 in the constellation Ursa Major. The supernova is located 3" East and 11" South from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 17 21 46.0, Dec +75 50 44.3
Title: Is There Unification in the 21st Century? Authors: Yuan K. Ha In the last 100 years, the most important equations in physics are Maxwell's equations for electrodynamics, Einstein's equation for gravity, Dirac's equation for the electron and Yang-Mills equation for elementary particles...
Title: The Subluminous Supernova 2007qd: A Missing Link in a Family of Low-Luminosity Type Ia Supernovae Authors: Colin M. McClelland, Peter M. Garnavich, Lluís Galbany, Ramon Miquel, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko, Bruce Bassett, J. Craig Wheeler, Ariel Goobar, Saurabh W. Jha, Masao Sako...
Callirrhoe, also known as Jupiter XVII, is one of Jupiter's outermost named natural satellites. It is an irregular moon that orbits in a retrograde direction. Callirrhoe was imaged by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak National Observatory from October 6th through November 4th, 1999 and originally des...
Oceanside: Sky's the limit for amateur astronomers Amateur astronomers from all over the county flocked to the Southern California Astronomy Exposition on Saturday. The event was billed as one of the largest gatherings of amateur astronomers on the West Coast. [url=http://www.nctimes.com/n...
Orbital elements: 2010 OB Earth MOID = 0.0748 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 3.11671 (2000.0) P Q n 0.22093185 Peri. 16.32722 +0.31998490 +0.94154793 a 2.7099659 Node 272.42950 -0.88060827 +0.25455938 e 0.5989923 Incl. 6.05239 -0.34948354 +0.22065136 P 4.46 H 21.9 G 0.15 U 8 [url=...
Orbital elements: 2010 NG3 Earth MOID = 0.1418 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 23.06649 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23846856 Peri. 193.98082 -0.23098619 +0.88427513 a 2.5754233 Node 64.03756 -0.84366615 +0.02573270 e 0.5553344 Incl. 26.83288 -0.48463678 -0.46625671 P 4.13 H 17.1 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Orbital elements: 2010 OA Earth MOID = 0.0757 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 343.29223 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35205314 Peri. 258.62814 +0.99181413 +0.07239980 a 1.9863872 Node 97.15670 -0.02672908 +0.92318766 e 0.5140889 Incl. 6.08517 -0.12486110 +0.37746896 P 2.80 H 20.4 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
Title: No Open Cluster in the Ruprecht 93 Region Authors: S. Cheon, H. Sung, M.S. Bessell UBVI CCD photometry has been obtained for the Ruprecht 93 (Ru 93) region. We were unable to confirm the existence of an intermediate-age open cluster in Ru 93 from the spatial distribution of blue stars. On the ot...
Eutelsat Communications and ictQATAR (representing the State of Qatar) announce today that following an international consultation, Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected to build the high-performance satellite they will jointly own and operate at the 25.5° East location in geostati...
