Edward Wright, a University of California, Los Angeles, astronomer who serves as principal investigator for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), said in a talk Monday that the spacecraft has already discovered at least two cool, substellar objects known as brown dwarfs. One of the br...
The 240 - 540 metre wide asteroid 2008 YJ3 will make a close pass (40.0 lunar distances, 0.1028 AU), travelling at 17.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th July, 2010 @ 02:15 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD)...
Sailing ships could harvest fuel from the oceans A fleet of sailing ships could harvest energy from the wind blowing over the vast tracts of ocean too far from the shore for wind turbines, a scheme unveiled last month claims. The ships would turn wind power into hydrogen, which would be stored on board...
The 120 - 260 metre wide asteroid 2003 MA3 will make a close pass (28.8 lunar distances, 0.0740 AU), travelling at 14.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th June, 2010 @ 16:50 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the...
Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/IoA/A.Fabian et al.); Optical (SDSS), Radio (STFC/JBO/MERLIN) This is a composite image showing a small region of the Chandra Deep Field North. Shown in blue is a deep image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and in red is an image from the Multi-Element Radio Linked Inter...
Orbital elements: 2009 SM104 Earth MOID = 0.0662 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 160.64706 (2000.0) P Q n 1.01177131 Peri. 138.68952 -0.76127579 -0.64842284 a 0.9826853 Node 0.90034 +0.54195884 -0.63851009 e 0.3709347 Incl. 9.68444 +0.35600532 -0.41455118 P 0.97 H 23.4 G 0.15 U 8 [...
The 34 - 76 metre wide asteroid 2007 TG1 will make a close pass (64.2 Lunar Distances, 0.1649 AU), travelling at 9.21 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th October, 2010 @ 18:48 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 220 - 500 metre wide asteroid 2007 LL will make a close pass (71.6 Lunar Distances, 0.1840 AU), travelling at 5.76 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th July, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance betwe...
The Boeing X-51 is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic (Mach 6, approx. 4,000 mph or 6,400 km/h at altitude) flight testing. The X-51 WaveRider program is a consortium of the US Air Force, DARPA, NASA, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. [url=http://en.wikiped...
Sighting - Orange Ball of Glowing Light Over Livingston West Lothian UK[url=http://beforeitsnews.com/news/50/120/Sighting_-_Orange_Ball_of_Glowing_Light_Over_...
Imagine if human eyes were so powerful they could read a book more than 20 kilometres away. Scientists in Australia and New Zealand have achieved a similar feat by bringing together the radio signals of six telescopes spread across the two countries to act as one giant telescope. An astronomer, Bria...
Curious Waterloo Region residents are asking questions after a fireball was spotted in the skies on Tuesday night. UW and UWO astronomers are not aware of any meteors. Read more
Orbital elements: 2010 KV39 Earth MOID = 0.0008 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 331.44396 (2000.0) P Q n 1.05042111 Peri. 296.64916 +0.97548146 -0.02541602 a 0.9584300 Node 65.49247 +0.12966476 +0.86897673 e 0.2554899 Incl. 13.90156 -0.17782848 +0.49419982 P 0.94 H 26.7 G 0.15 U 7...
One of the National Gallerys best-known paintings, a scene of pastoral bliss by Botticelli, is officially regarded as a story of the all-conquering power of love, but a new study suggests that it has a more racy meaning. Venus and Mars may also be an illustration of the potency of hallucinogenic drug...
