The MMT Observatory and MMTO Council are pleased to announce the Second MMT Science Symposium. The occasion will also mark the tenth anniversary of the re-dedication of the MMT held May 20, 2000. Read more
On Wednesday, May 19th, 2010, at 7 pm, Astronomer Alex Filippenko from the University of California, Berkeley, will give a non-technical, illustrated talk on: "Hearts of Darkness: Black Holes in Space" as part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures in the Smithwick Theater, Foothi...
The Foucault pendulum, or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. Read more
Simon Stevin (1548/49 - 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. Read more
Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica. The tomb held a man aged around 50, who was buried with jade collars, pyrite and obsidian artifacts and ceram...
A new laser laboratory that will help scientists see how proteins become activated at a molecular level launched at Imperial College London on 29 April 2010. The Ultrafast Spectroscopy Laboratory houses three state-of-the-art laser systems that can analyse the movements of proteins at a molecu...
Orbital elements: 2010 JL88 Earth MOID = 0.0012 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 7.43466 (2000.0) P Q n 0.58058316 Peri. 45.39315 +0.76843549 +0.63992462 a 1.4230705 Node 274.82056 -0.58764308 +0.70451138 e 0.5033917 Incl. 0.10572 -0.25334266 +0.30685534 P 1.70 H 26.8 G 0.15 U 6 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2010 FC81 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0223 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 20.16951 (2000.0) P Q n 0.22875788 Peri. 63.22654 -0.88362978 +0.46787900 a 2.6478010 Node 144.66290 -0.43929435 -0.81602761 e 0.6259217 Incl. 1.68038 -0.16192250 -0.33939384 P 4.31 H 21.9 G 0.15...
Astronomers detect red giant survivor planet 10 billion years old Italian astronomers have detected a planet that survived the red giant expansion of its home star. The researchers say that the discovery could be a sneak peek at the fate that awaits the Earth, some four or five billion years from now...
Title: Spectroscopy of Putative Brown Dwarfs in Taurus Authors: K. L. Luhman, E. E. Mamajek Quanz and coworkers have reported the discovery of the coolest known member of the Taurus star-forming complex (L2±0.5) and Barrado and coworkers have identified a possible protostellar binary brown dwa...
An ILS Proton M rocket with a Breeze upper stage is scheduled to launch the DirecTV 12 High-Definition Broadcasting Satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 00:22 GMT, 29th December, 2009. The satellite will occupy the 103 W (GEO) orbital slot and provide coverage for the U.S.
Orbital elements: 2010 KD Earth MOID = 0.2170 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 84.29470 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61939710 Peri. 92.20724 -0.94377626 -0.14540439 a 1.3629814 Node 79.53440 +0.00400825 -0.90304334 e 0.2201490 Incl. 17.57254 +0.33056060 -0.40419090 P 1.59 H 21.8 G 0.15 U 8 [url...
A 16-inch telescope, purchased through a $14,000 grant from the Toshiba Corp., is providing images that had previously been out of reach at the planetarium. The telescope is second in size in the region, topped only by the 20-inch telescope owned by the Von Braun Astronomical Society in Huntsville...
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