A Russian Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the Progress M-04M/36P cargo ship from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on the 3rd February, 2010. Progress cargo ship will deliver fresh supplies to the International Space Station. Docking is on the 5th February. The cargo ship will remain docke...
Title: The Constant Inner-Disk Radius of LMC X-3: A Basis for Measuring Black Hole Spin Authors: James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard, Lijun Gou, Shin'ya Yamada, Ramesh Narayan The black-hole binary system LMC X-3 has been observed by virtually every X-ray mission since t...
Title: Yellow Supergiants in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC): Putting Current Evolutionary Theory to the Test Authors: Kathryn F. Neugent, Philip Massey, Brian Skiff, Maria R. Drout, Georges Meynet, Knut A. G. Olsen The yellow supergiant content of nearby galaxies provides a critical test of m...
Title: Abell 41: shaping of a planetary nebula by a binary central star? Authors: D. Jones (1), M. Lloyd (1), M. Santander-García (2,3,4), J.A. López (5), J. Meaburn (1), D.L. Mitchell (1), T.J. O'Brien (1), D. Pollacco (6), M.M. Rubio-Díez (7,2), N.M.H. Vaytet (8) ((1) Jodrell Bank Centre for Astr...
Second generation DMC satellites set sights on GMES SSTLs privately funded UK-DMC-2 has today passed its Test Readiness Review (TRR) at its Manufacturing Integration and Test Facilities in Guildford, UK. Scheduled for build completion in September 2008, the new Earth Observation satellite wi...
Orbital elements: 2010 AB78 Earth MOID = 0.2084 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 25.06138 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29091743 Peri. 296.47537 -0.18377922 +0.90926963 a 2.2557427 Node 317.05262 -0.58632988 -0.40632396 e 0.5458525 Incl. 33.23680 -0.78895023 +0.09016414 P 3.39 H 18.3 G 0.15 U
Binocular Maintenance Tips A good place to start with is the accessories associated with binoculars. Most commonly, the binocular strap, it should always maintain around your neck as a high percentage of damage is caused when binoculars are dropped and banged up. [url=http://www.koleksyon.or...
Major meteorite find
Count Guido Roberto Deiro figures he probably tripped over several meteorites in his day and never even knew it.
But when the 72-year-old Las Vegan really started looking, he hit the jackpot.
On March 3, Deiro's first hunting expedition, he discovered a 13.7-kilogram, pe...
Orbital elements: 2009 UM1 Earth MOID = 0.0625 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 358.42554 (2000.0) P Q n 1.03898731 Peri. 333.81624 -0.97465138 -0.22092002 a 0.9654487 Node 193.56185 +0.22244271 -0.93996579 e 0.5976261 Incl. 8.66830 +0.02395678 -0.26011277 P 0.95 H 23.5 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
The 630 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2007 RU17 will make a close pass (40.6 lunar distances, 0.1044 AU), travelling at 25.42 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th October, 2010 @ 16:09 UT. See more The Lunar Distan...
Orbital elements: 2010 EN44 Earth MOID = 0.0187 AU Epoch 2010 Mar. 5.0 TT = JDT 2455260.5 MPC M 318.85971 (2000.0) P Q n 0.84605086 Peri. 207.38360 -0.76358048 +0.64497709 a 1.1071464 Node 12.92250 -0.56436191 -0.64343336 e 0.1271922 Incl. 7.91947 -0.31375226 -0.41230821 P 1.16 H 24.7 G 0.15 From...
The 22 - 50 metre wide asteroid 2007 JB21 will make a close pass (21.8 Lunar Distances, 0.0559 AU), travelling at 7.47 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distanc...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has joined with Discovery Communications to commemorate the U.S. space agency's 50th anniversary. The space agency, which was created by the National Aeronautics and Space Act, began operations Oct. 1, 1958. The partnership was announced Wed...
The mysterious Leo giant gas ring explained by a billion year old collision between two galaxies
An international team unveiled the origin of the giant gas ring in the Leo group of galaxies. With the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the scientists were able to detect an optical signature of the r...
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