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50 Years of Space Science at the University of Leicester 2010 marks 50 years since the University of Leicester's first space scientist, Professor Ken Pounds, joined the University. Follow the links below to learn about the history of space science at Leicester, and discover some of the work being d...

Leuctra was a village in ancient Greece, in Boeotia, seven miles southwest of Thebes. It is primarily known today as the site of the important 371 BC Battle of Leuctra in which the Thebans, under Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans. The Spartan hegemony was fallen after that battle, and the Thebans b...

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Israel upgrades missile range as space centre The Israeli air force is upgrading its missile test range to turn it into the country's primary space centre, with launch facilities for different types of missiles and rockets. The missile test range is part of the service's Palmachim base in central I...

Reports of strange red and orange lights floating over the Ozarks were called into the KY3 Newsroom on the evening of the Fourth of July between 9:00 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Read more

Orbital elements: 2010 MU111 Earth MOID = 0.0556 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 18.18234 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26558945 Peri. 156.60670 -0.44927255 +0.61320329 a 2.3969676 Node 80.27751 -0.88781946 -0.22532421 e 0.6126829 Incl. 41.23794 -0.09965329 -0.75710682 P 3.71 H 18.7 G 0.15 U 6...

Maxima of long period variable T Canis Minoris on the 5th July, 2010. Magnitude: 10.5-14.0 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 07 34 00.5, Dec +11 44 07

A Russian government Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the 38th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 15:35 GMT, 30th June, 2010.

Orbital elements: 2008 UB95 Earth MOID = 0.0006 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 120.55416 (2000.0) P Q n 0.99909147 Peri. 253.80032 +0.10118076 +0.99464395 a 0.9909823 Node 22.03973 -0.88993183 +0.09997585 e 0.2673998 Incl. 3.22576 -0.44472890 +0.02623426 P 0.99 H 24.5 G 0.15 U 9 M...

Orbital elements: 2010 KU7 Earth MOID = 0.0506 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 17.13732 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45118492 Peri. 215.74903 -0.25884421 +0.96300221 a 1.6835771 Node 39.40355 -0.85648563 -0.19292235 e 0.3872505 Incl. 6.78629 -0.44657815 -0.18816935 P 2.18 H 22.2 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...

Orbital elements: C/2010 H1 (Garradd) T 2010 July 15.125 TT MPC q 2.50955 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 247.057 -0.580992 +0.800617 Node 344.529 -0.383927 -0.428291 e 1.0 Incl. 33.311 -0.717669 -0.419022 From 10 observations 2010 Apr. 16-17.[url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/mpec/K10/K10H07.h...

Hetal Kanjibhai Vaishnav, a Class XII student from Rajkot in Gujarat, is on cloud nine. She joins the elite list of Indians after whom minor planets or asteroids have been named. The prestigious Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has decided to confer Hetal's s...

Title: The Disk Around CoKu Tau/4: Circumbinary, not Transitional Authors: M.J. Ireland, A.L. Kraus (Version v2) CoKu Tau/4 has been labelled as one of the very few known transition disk objects: disks around young stars that have their inner disks cleared of dust, arguably due to planetary forma...

Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2010 In July 2010, an outstanding selection of national and international speakers, industry leaders, and key decision makers will meet in Canberra in the scenic Eastern Highlands, just a few hours drive from Australia's major ski fields. AESC 2010 offers a...