Title: A cyclical period variation detected in the updated orbital period analysis of TV Columbae Authors: Zhibin Dai, Shengbang Qian, Eduardo Fernández Lajús, G. L. Baume The two CCD photometries of the intermediate polar TV Columbae are made for obtaining the two updated eclipse timings with h...
Title: Variations in the X-ray eclipse transitions of Cen X-3 Authors: Jincy Devasia (1 and 2), Biswajit Paul (2), Marykutty James (1 and 2), Kavila Indulekha (1) ((1) School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, (2) Raman Research Institute, Sadashiv...
Fly Your Face in Space NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. To launch your face into space and become a part of history, just follow these steps: First...Select the Participate button at the bottom of this page and upload your imag...
The 410 - 910 metre wide asteroid 2007 VG189 will make a close pass (67.2 lunar distances, 0.1726 AU), travelling at 10.10 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th September, 2010 @ 15:23 UT. See more The Lunar Dis...
Orbital's Two-Stage OBV Interceptor Rocket Successfully Launched for Missile Defence Flight Test Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that a two-stage configuration of its flight-proven Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) was successfully flight-tested earlier today in the Booster Veri...
Mnemosyne was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. This titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus: * Calliope (Epic Poetry) * Clio (History) * Erato (Love Poetry) * Euterpe (Music) * Melpomene (Tragedy) * Polyhymnia (Hymns) * Terpsichore (Dan...
Before the Mississippi: Ancient Rivers Flowed West Like vacationers taking a pit stop on a long road trip, zircon mineral grains from the northern Appalachians may have stopped off in Michigan before ending up on the Colorado Plateau, a new study suggests. The finding, reported in the June Geology...
Recent Developments in Gravity The 14th conference in the series "Recent Developments in Gravity" is organised by the Theoretical Physics group of the Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece. NEB-XIV (NEB-14) will take place in Ioannina, Greece, from 8-11 June, 2010...
Orbital elements: 2010 LM14 Earth MOID = 0.3246 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 335.93268 (2000.0) P Q n 0.77284050 Peri. 185.27492 +0.99818408 -0.05711421 a 1.1760058 Node 177.71891 +0.05511843 +0.99421276 e 0.4234093 Incl. 28.75025 -0.02430026 -0.09098872 P 1.28 H 21.5 G 0.15 U...
This year the UK Space Agency and the Technology Strategy Board are pleased to be co-sponsoring the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ENSC), also referred to as the "Galileo Masters". The ESNC is open to anybody with an idea which utilises satellite navigation technology, b...
Twistor theory has been developed by Roger Penrose and his associates since the 1960s. He realised that using the space-time continuum picture to describe physical processes is inadequate not only at the Planck scale of 10-33 cm but also at the much larger scales of elementary particles, or perhap...
It's been about one month since the heavens over Santa Clarita opened up with a roar and revealed - something. It's still not absolutely clear what caused such a commotion at about 8:30 p.m. May 4. Initial reports referred to a "jet doing doughnuts," according to a complaint filed with Edw...
