University Students And Professors Ready To "Rock On" With NASA University students and professors from across the country and Puerto Rico will converge on NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this month to learn how to build small experiments that can be launched on sounding ro...
An ILS Proton-M launch vehicle with a Breeze-M upper stage is scheduled to launch the EchoStar 15 telecommunications spacecraft, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 18:40 GMT, 10th July, 2010.
The satellite built by US Space Systems Loral () will be operated by EchoStar Orbital Corpora...
The symbiotic binary star CI Cyg is in outburst. On the 11th August, 2008, the star was first noticed to have brightened by a full magnitude. The last major outburst was in March 1975. The star normally is at magnitude 11. Google Sky file (2kb, k...
Rothney Observatory to host weeklong celestial series Star-gazers will get the chance for a picture-perfect view of the "deep sky wonders" of the Milky Way this week. Calgary's Rothney Astrophysical Observatory is hosting a special weeklong series opening up their telescopes to cit...
Title: Nemesis Reconsidered Authors: Adrian L. Melott (University of Kansas), Richard K. Bambach (Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History) The hypothesis of a companion object (Nemesis) orbiting the Sun was motivated by the claim of a terrestrial extinction periodicity, thought t...
Dozens of light rays appeared over the sky of Huandao Street in Xiamen in the morning of July 10. According to Mr. Wang, the witness, his friend discovered that several vertical rays of light had appeared in the sky at 11:30 p.m. on July 9. When his friend called him, he was skeptical at first about what h...
Orbital elements: 2009 WY7 Earth MOID = 0.0098 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 270.85275 (2000.0) P Q n 1.88350875 Peri. 172.24895 -0.55298571 +0.83080353 a 0.6493681 Node 64.15847 -0.76814534 -0.47905366 e 0.6094399 Incl. 4.01565 -0.32273757 -0.28332505 P 0.52 H 23.6 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2010 JK33 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0247 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 356.60147 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30228424 Peri. 289.15023 +0.74538355 +0.66575722 a 2.1988337 Node 29.13964 -0.58218331 +0.67510041 e 0.6062214 Incl. 4.02928 -0.32475523 +0.31781561 P 3.26 H 20.9 G 0.1...
Orbital elements: 2010 NU1 Earth MOID = 0.3183 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 29.07183 (2000.0) P Q n 0.38464736 Peri. 37.34147 -0.72002957 -0.46378562 a 1.8725247 Node 106.92579 +0.43123678 -0.88183769 e 0.7529538 Incl. 32.65442 +0.54368396 +0.08523607 P 2.56 H 21.2 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
The Phobos program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. Phobos 2 became a Mars orbiter and returned 38 images with a resolution of up to 40 meters. Both probes suffered from critical failures. Phobos 1 was la...
Orbital elements: 2010 NT1 Earth MOID = 0.2063 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 27.91317 (2000.0) P Q n 0.56073312 Peri. 306.15018 -0.47036577 +0.62899179 a 1.4564601 Node 283.32201 -0.45407481 -0.77393564 e 0.2174495 Incl. 39.50073 -0.75668495 +0.07343674 P 1.76 H 19.2 G 0.15 U 9 [...
The eclipse will last for a maximum of six minutes and 39 seconds and be seen from the Indian Ocean, China, the south of Japan, and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.
A magnitude 15.4 supernova, 2010fz, was discovered by B. Monard on the 9th July, 2010, in the spiral galaxy NGC 2967, in the constellation Sextans. The supernova is located 22" east and 21" south from the center of the Galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA = 09 42 04.77, Dec...
The 27 - 60 metre wide asteroid 2000 UK11 will make a close pass (62.0 lunar distances, 0.1593 AU), travelling at 11.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November, 2010 @ 03:56 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (...
Orbital elements: 2010 NK Earth MOID = 0.0059 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 50.79599 (2000.0) P Q n 0.62816886 Peri. 83.48243 -0.97062721 +0.04882754 a 1.3502633 Node 99.13062 -0.13194877 -0.92682396 e 0.5308625 Incl. 13.80422 +0.20117740 -0.37230795 P 1.57 H 24.4 G 0.15 U 8 [url...