A crack in the floor at home would be considered a homeowner's nightmare - but this enormous opening is the Tate Modern's newest art installation. The work begins as a hairline fracture, and then widens as it winds its way 167m across the gallerys Turbine Hall, dramatically opening the concrete floo...
Title: HX-POL - A Balloon-Borne Hard X-Ray Polarimeter Authors: H. Krawczynski (1), A. Garson III (1), Q. Li (1), M. Beilicke (1), P. Dowkontt (1), E. Wulf (2), J. Kurfess (2), E. Novikova (2), G. De Geronimo (3), M. G. Baring (4), A. K. Harding (5), J. Grindlay (6), J. S. Hong (6) ((1) Washington Univer...
Orbital elements: 2010 LH14 Earth MOID = 0.0552 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 5.11514 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29209726 Peri. 80.37982 +0.30493292 +0.95160884 a 2.2496643 Node 207.46814 -0.90302387 +0.27616746 e 0.5848211 Incl. 4.74609 -0.30259512 +0.13480407 P 3.37 H 22.0 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. Vesta was celebrated at the Vestalia which took place from June 7 to June 15. On the first day of the festivities the penus Vestae (the curtained sanctum sanctorum of her temple) was opened, for the only time during the year...
Astronomical Society bids to have asteroid named after Mnajdra temples A suggestion for an asteroid to be named after Malta's famed Mnajdra temple is being considered by the International Astronomical Unions Committee on Small Bodies Nomenclature (CSBN), the Astronomical Society of Malta sai...
A Delta II rocket body that was launched on the 4th August, 2007 from the Cape Canaveral air force base, on the Phoenix Mars Lander mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 3rd June, 2010 @ 00:00 GMT ± - Hours. TLE Data pre>DELTA 2 RB 1 32007U 07034C 10145.09599448 .01196157 -101...
Asteroid (100926) 1998 MQ Minimum distance: 0.1997 AU Date of closest approach: 2010-10-23 16:47:00 UT Date of maximum brightness: 2010-10-25 04:00:00 UT Maximum brightness at closest approach: 15 V. Maximum angular velocity: 5.61"/min maximum date and time the angular velocity: 2010-...
For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of Numbers Stations.
Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies l...
A UC Santa Cruz scientist will share in a $1 million astrophysics prize for work in designing telescopes that can see deeper into the universe and farther back in time. Jerry Nelson, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, is one of three winners of the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, sharing the priz...
US rocket launch sparks Australia UFO frenzy A bright spiralling light, believed by astronomers to be a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, was spotted in skies across Australia's east coast just before dawn on Saturday, sparking a UFO frenzy. Described by some witnesses as a "lollipop-ty...
Meteor Caught on tape over Huntsville and Scottsboro On May 18th, NASA cameras at the Marshall Space Flight Centre and Walker County Science Centre near Chickamauga, Georgia tracked the entry of a large meteor estimated to weigh some 60 pounds over northeastern Alabama. This meteor was first pic...
Technetium is the chemical element with atomic number 43 and symbol Tc. It is the lowest atomic number element without any stable isotopes. Nearly all of technetium is produced synthetically and only minute amounts are found in nature. Naturally occurring technetium occurs as a spontaneous fiss...
Cosplay, a contraction (or portmanteau) of the English words "costume" and "play", is a Japanese subculture centred on dressing as characters from manga, anime, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, Japanese movies, or Japanese pop...