After Perth, Australia (2008) and Cape Town, South Africa (2009), the third international Square Kilometre Array Forum (ISKAF2010) will be held in the Norhtern part of the Netherlands centred around the city of Assen. ISKAF brings together, for the first time in Europe, scientist, engineers, po...
It is with regret that we note the death earlier today of C. M. Bardwell, who served as Assistant Director of the Central Bureau during 1978-1989 (when he was also Associate Director of the Minor Planet Centre, where he worked from 1957 onwards, originally in Cincinnati). [url=http://adsabs.harv...
The 350 - 780 metre wide asteroid 2002 EY2 will make a close pass (42.1 lunar distances, 0.1081 AU), travelling at 17.91 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th August, 2010 @ 00:33 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...
Rehov (also Rehob) was an important Bronze- and Iron Age city located at Tel Rehov, an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, approximately 5 km south of Beit She'an and 3 km west of the Jordan River. The oldest known archaeological finds relating to beekeeping were discovered at Rehov. In Sep...
The Iranian government says it has evidence that one of its nuclear scientists was abducted and is being held in the US against his will. Shahram Amiri disappeared a year ago while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. A video broadcast by Iranian TV purports to show Mr Amiri saying he was kidnapped and is li...
Debri from a Chinese CZ-4B F-04 Rocket Body that was launched on the 14th October, 1999, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre for the "ZiYuan" ZY-1(CBERS-1)/SACI-1 mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 9th June, 2010 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours. TLE Data pre>CZ-...
A Soyuz-U carrier rocket is scheduled to launch from the Plesetsk launch complex at 19:00 Moscow time, 16th April, 2010. The rocket is to orbit a Cobalt-M type optical intelligence gathering satellite. Once in orbit, the spy satellite will likely to receive the designation Kosmos-2461.
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. It is only 817 kilometres from the North Pole. It takes its name from HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km east of the present station, off what is now Cape Sheridan, in 1875-1876. [url=ht...
TRAPPIST to Scout the Sky and Uncover Exoplanets and Comets Expand (630kb, 1280 x 1294)A new robotic telescope has had first light at ESO's La Silla Observatory, in Chile. TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) is devoted to the study of planetary systems through two app...
Orbital elements: 2010 EJ104 Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 1.26783 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00982751 Peri. 177.04117 -0.98659650 -0.14193972 a 21.5860837 Node 353.02911 +0.13276176 -0.41137662 e 0.9011432 Incl. 41.55197 +0.09487705 -0.90034571 P 100.29 H 17.1 G 0.15 U 3 [url=http://www...
Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Timothy J. (T.J.) Creamer and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi are scheduled to launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:51 p.m. CST on Sunday, Dec. 20. After a two...
Seabed mapping breaks new ground Newly published mapping of the seabed off Dorset is the most detailed British underwater mapping yet available free on the Internet. Downloadable through Google Earth, the mapping shows reefs and other seabed formations, and provides information about wrecks a...
Carleton's Goodsell Observatory gets turned into R2D2 by an unknown group of enterprising students--complete with sound effects. All the "decorations" appear to have been draped or taped onto the dome; there was no defacing with spray paint, etc. [url=http://www.facebook.com/al...
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