IIT-B enters space age with satellite tracker On the afternoon of May 29 2010, IIT-B literally zoomed into the space age with the formal commissioning of a satellite-tracking ground station on the terrace of the aerospace engineering department. The primary role of the new space-age outfit will b...
With the help of high speed video, scientists have discovered that there is far more to bursting bubbles than meets the eye. Under the right conditions, a bursting bubble on a liquid surface does not simply vanish, but creates a perfect ring of tiny "daughter bubbles". This occurs as the r...
There are a limited number of people who can say that they have saved Alan Alda's life or went to high school with Robin Williams. In addition, a select group of astrophysicists and astronomers can lay claim to the discovery of 70 percent of the universe. In the scope of Nicholas Suntzeff's life, he has...
Do giant flashes of lightning striking upwards from thunder clouds merely pose an extraordinarily spectacular view?
Or do they actually alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere, playing a role in ozone depletion and the climate on Earth?
This is the key question that may be answered b...
Orbital elements: 2010 LQ33 Earth MOID = 0.2333 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 11.75027 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27733150 Peri. 342.20424 -0.63840172 +0.66799718 a 2.3288235 Node 246.19038 -0.64558390 -0.73522454 e 0.4709275 Incl. 24.70607 -0.41912369 +0.11499846 P 3.55 H 19.5 G 0.15 U 8...
Orbital elements: 2010 LP33 Epoch 2010 May 24.0 TT = JDT 2455340.5 MPC M 357.43369 (2000.0) P Q n 0.10269898 Peri. 171.40882 +0.67330556 +0.71310309 a 4.5160489 Node 140.55874 -0.69531133 +0.70051546 e 0.6555236 Incl. 17.90419 -0.25139964 -0.02760567 P 9.60 H 19.1 G 0.15 From 16 observations 20...
Orbital elements: 2010 KY127 Earth MOID = 0.7040 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 350.83377 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24690560 Peri. 356.63692 +0.99363380 -0.00390969 a 2.5164140 Node 7.39017 +0.11242624 +0.09850951 e 0.8826478 Incl. 61.08466 -0.00722546 +0.99512843 P 3.99 H 16.5 G 0.15 U 8...
The 55 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2007 YT56 will make a close pass (41.6 lunar distances, 0.1070 AU), travelling at 9.97 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th August, 2010 @ 07:27 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...
ILA international aerospace show at Berlin's Schoenefeld Airport June 8 - 13, 2010 ILA Berlin Air Show is the worlds leading trade show and conference event of the aerospace industry. With about 100 international and national conferences and 7,700 registered participants, ILA Berlin Air Show 20...
Title: Once Again About Kainozoic Meteorite Structures in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Authors: L. P. Hrjanina, Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, b. Grusinskaja, 10, 123810, Moscow, Russia. Two Kainozoic meteorite structures were discovered during the study of coa...
The 170 - 370 metre wide asteroid 1994 CB will make a close pass (35.2 lunar distances, 0.0905 AU), travelling at 11.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st July, 2010 @ 16:14 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), t...
Title: XMASS Authors: Hiroyuki Sekiya, for the XMASS collaboration The XMASS detector is a large single phase liquid Xenon scintillator. After its feasibility had been studied using a 100 kg size prototype detector, an 800 kg size detector is being built for dark matter search with the sensitivit...
Title: Adaptive Optics Observations of B0128+437: A Low-Mass, High-Redshift Gravitational Lens Authors: David J. Lagattuta (1), Matthew W. Auger (2), Christopher D. Fassnacht (1) ((1) UC Davis, (2) UC Santa Barbara) (Version v2) We use high-resolution adaptive optics (AO) imaging on the Keck...
