The chemical signature of microbial life could be hidden in readings taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe when it landed on Titan in January, 2005.
Chris McKay of NASA's Ames Research Centre in Moffet Field, Cal...
Abergele inventor awarded telescope design gold medal An inventor and a north Wales college have combined to win an international award for their telescope design. Peter Wise from Abergele, Conwy, and Coleg Llandrillo Cymru won a gold medal at the Geneva Inventors' Fair. Mr Wise, 63, worked with t...
Halifax Museum of Natural History A second new exhibit, Riding with Meteorites, features fragments of meteorites that fell in Canada in 1960, 1963 and 1994, as well as an over three-metre reconstruction of the biggest meteorite on Earth known to date - the Hoba meteorite - which still remains in its...
The wonders of Waterville The town is an unlikely place to have ties to astronomical events, but the Douglas County Historical Museum owns two meteorites. The 82-pound Waterville meteorite discovered in 1917 less than 20 miles away, was the first meteorite found in Washington. For a while, it was k...
Orbital elements: 2010 LM34 Earth MOID = 0.0729 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 7.12104 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20895274 Peri. 13.05103 -0.05208685 +0.91403271 a 2.8125743 Node 255.09915 -0.94956097 -0.17006544 e 0.6165478 Incl. 24.60001 -0.30922632 +0.36826885 P 4.72 H 23.2 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
A Sampling of Meteorites on Display This Weekend in Tucson Nearly three dozen asteroids will be on display this weekend at the Foothills Mall in Tucson. Marvin Killgore, the curator of meteorites at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, is putting together a collection that sp...
Professor John Beddington, the UK goverment's chief scientific adviser, has received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. He attracted media attention last year when he said the world faced a "perfect storm". He was referring to the impact of climate change on food, ener...
Lowell Observatory millionth visitor Last month, Lowell Observatory celebrated one million visitors since 1994, and held an event in honour of the Steele Visitor Centre. Visitors were welcomed to Lowell Observatory at half -priced admission, and participated in various raffles with prizes su...
Orbital elements: 2010 EV45 Earth MOID = 0.1955 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 26.47904 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39166196 Peri. 118.08701 -0.43100362 +0.89540831 a 1.8500996 Node 125.94707 -0.86874678 -0.37828993 e 0.3698224 Incl. 7.93170 -0.24395678 -0.23482053 P 2.52 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 1 [...
The magnitude 14.2 asteroid (547) Praxedis will occult the magnitude 4.5 star 55 Pegasus, in the constellation Pegasus, at ~07:11 UT, 11th June 2010. The 2.9 second event is visible from Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Position(2000): RA 23 07 00.2598, Dec +09 24 34.170
Title: NLTT 41135: a field M-dwarf + brown dwarf eclipsing binary in a triple system, discovered by the MEarth observatory Authors: Jonathan Irwin, Lars Buchhave, Zachory K. Berta, David Charbonneau, David W. Latham, Christopher J. Burke, Gilbert A. Esquerdo, Mark E. Everett, Matthew J. Holman...
Orbital elements: 2010 LK34 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0077 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 356.03750 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39630622 Peri. 249.09678 +0.94091921 -0.33101624 a 1.8356172 Node 130.16128 +0.33491034 +0.87847977 e 0.8072312 Incl. 5.36150 +0.05006106 +0.34453090 P 2.49 H 21.9 G 0....
