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Palomar Mountain is a mountain in the Palomar Mountain Range in northern San Diego County, California, United States. It is most famous as being home to the Palomar Observatory. It is also the location of Palomar Mountain State Park, a Ca...

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Man accused of stealing Sally Ride's flight suit Every time they passed a replica of astronaut Sally Ride's flight suit on their visits to NASA or Space Centre Houston, Calvin Dale Smith would laugh, his wife recalled. She told NASA investigators her husband would comment that he knew where Ride's o...

Popeye Fontana loves collecting fossils, petrified wood, driftwood and rocks. He has lots of shells, ferns and other items as well as gallina, zinc, silver and lead he found in a collapsed miner's shack. One of the first things he discovered was a meteorite. He was hunting bears in the Flathead wh...

Sunspots 11073, 11074 and 11075 Expand (135kb, 560 x 560) Credit SOHO/MDI

Indian rockets to soon use atmospheric oxygen as fuel In an attempt to make its rockets lighter and carry heavier satellites, the Indian space agency is planning to flight test by the end of this year its own air-breathing engine that will use atmospheric oxygen as fuel. Air-breathing engines use at...

Arianespace has been chosen to launch the two communications satellites, Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 within the scope of a contract between Thales Alenia Space and Russian operator Gazprom. The launch contract was signed yesterday in Moscow, following the contract signed by Thales Alenia Space an...

A ULA Delta 4 rocket with the GPS 2F-1 navigation satellite is scheduled to launch from pad SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, between 03:29 - 03:48 GMT, 21st May, 2010.

ETX-80AT-TC GO TO COMPUTER TELESCOPE Meade's new, larger 80mm diameter ETX delivers more light-gathering for increased image brightness and greater detail. Moon craters by the hundreds, cloud belts on Jupiter, and Saturn's rings are just the beginning of what can be seen with this telescope. Sp...

Meade ETX-125PE Astro Telescope Meade ETX-125PE Maksutov Cassegrain SPECIFICATIONS Expand (69kb, 560 x 925) Model ETX-125PEPart Number 0515-03-55Color Blue Tube Manual PDFAperture 127mm (5.0")Op...

Orbital elements: 2005 GB120 Earth MOID = 0.0730 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 20.31238 (2000.0) P Q n 1.40016674 Peri. 243.62057 +0.70722948 -0.70509946 a 0.7913153 Node 161.06901 +0.69200548 +0.67545996 e 0.3947023 Incl. 9.14935 +0.14475799 +0.21584393 P 0.70 H 20.5 G 0.15 U 4 [...

Asteroid (162269) 1999 VO6 Minimum distance: 0.08817 AU Date of closest approach: 2010-10-14 07:11:00 UT Date of maximum brightness: 2010-10-12 00:00:00 UT Maximum brightness at closest approach: 15.6 V. Maximum angular velocity: 29.57"/min maximum date and time the angular velocity:...

A loud explosion was heard on the border between Turkey and Georgia on Tuesday evening

The 350 - 770 metre wide asteroid 2000 GJ147 will make a close pass (73.2 lunar distances, 0.1880 AU), travelling at 13.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th May, 2010 @ 18:25 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), th...

Orbital elements: 2010 KV7 Earth MOID = 0.0013 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 10.71722 (2000.0) P Q n 0.73444809 Peri. 36.31348 +0.37619795 +0.92652377 a 1.2166397 Node 255.78543 -0.85138205 +0.34339119 e 0.2191868 Incl. 0.31721 -0.36554578 +0.15374065 P 1.34 H 26.0 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...