Mars Institute "Moon-1" Humvee Rover reaches Devon Island, High Arctic An international team of researchers led by Mars Institute scientist Dr. Pascal Lee successfully reached Devon Island, High Arctic, on Sunday, 16 May, 2010 after a 13-day, 150 km vehicular journey from Cornwalli...
The 360 - 800 metre wide asteroid 2004 JX20 will make a close pass (58.1 lunar distances, 0.1494 AU), travelling at 7.37 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th May, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dist...
Orbital elements: 2010 JM33 Earth MOID = 0.0304 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 15.09543 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40663078 Peri. 228.50079 +0.01265426 +0.99786021 a 1.8044127 Node 42.35562 -0.88670696 +0.04084937 e 0.4593992 Incl. 5.46353 -0.46215868 -0.05105225 P 2.42 H 26.5 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
San Diego State to build 50-inch research telescope San Diego State University will build the largest research telescope in school history, a 50-inch instrument that will examine distant objects that vary in brightness, revealing clues about the physical nature of the universe. The $1.7 millio...
Indian dedicated military satellite India's first dedicated military satellite should be up in space well within a year. Indian Space Research Organisation has fixed the "launch window'' of the naval communication and surveillance satellite between December 2010 and March 2011. The def...
Orbital elements: 2010 JL77 Earth MOID = 0.0780 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 18.95683 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33312755 Peri. 28.65881 -0.38092517 +0.92321946 a 2.0609257 Node 219.01075 -0.86291080 -0.37463590 e 0.4752666 Incl. 4.61206 -0.33208576 -0.08552059 P 2.96 H 24.1 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Orbital elements: 2010 JF87 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0489 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 30.63444 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24231585 Peri. 12.63061 -0.86262008 -0.42018924 a 2.5480904 Node 138.57862 +0.41915531 -0.90543588 e 0.6365580 Incl. 25.19612 +0.28318796 +0.06022353 P 4.07 H 19.2 G 0.1...
Students, spot a new asteroid and name it How about naming a new asteroid in the sky? In the next three months, many students across India will search for new asteroids and name them as part of a unique astronomy project connected to US space agency NASA. [url=http://www.newdelhinews.net/story/63...
Isovaline is a rare amino acid that was found in the Murchison meteorite. It is an isomer of the biologically important amino acid L-valine. It may have analgesic properties. Read more
Title: The 2003 and 2005 superhumps in V1113 Cygni Authors: K. Bakowska, A. Olech, K. Zloczewski, M. Wisniewski We report CCD photometry of the cataclysmic variable V1113 Cygni. During two campaigns, lasting from May to August 2003 and from March to June 2005, we recorded two superoutburst. In the...
Title: XTE J1701-462 and its Implications for the Nature of Subclasses in Low-Magnetic-Field Neutron Star Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries Authors: Jeroen Homan, Michiel van der Klis, Joel K. Fridriksson, Ronald A. Remillard, Rudy Wijnands, Mariano Mendez, Dacheng Lin, Diego Altamirano, Piergiorgi...
Title: Resolving the Xi Boo Binary with Chandra, and Revealing the Spectral Type Dependence of the Coronal "FIP Effect" Authors: Brian E. Wood, Jeffrey L. Linsky On 2008 May 2, Chandra observed the X-ray spectrum of Xi Boo (G8 V+K4 V), resolving the binary for the first time in X-rays and a...
Title: Suzaku observation of the Phoenix Galaxy Authors: G. Matt, S. Bianchi, H. Awaki, A. Comastri, M. Guainazzi, K. Iwasawa, E. Jimenez-Bailon, F. Nicastro In recent years, several Seyfert 2 galaxies have been discovered that change state when observed in X-rays a few years apart, switching fr...
The National Science Foundation has halted construction of the $13 million VERITAS mountainside telescope array after a native american Indian tribe filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the area is sacred.
The foundation said it will work with the Tohono O’odham Nation , fo...
