Title: XMM-Newton observations of EF Eridani: the textbook example of low-accretion rate polars Authors: A.D. Schwope, A. Staude, D. Koester, J. Vogel Archival X-ray observations of EF Eridani obtained in a low state revealed distinc...
IEU-APCTP Workshop: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics May 17 (Mon) - May 19 (Wed), 2010 Institute for the Early Universe(IEU), Ewha Womans University Seoul, Korea This is the first IEU-APCTP workshop on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics. The topics of the workshop include * Dark Energy and Grav...
Boeing in talks to work with ISRO on moon mission Seeking to expand cooperation with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on its moon mission, the United States is offering assistance through Boeing, which partners with the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) on its space...
The 640 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2003 HR32 will make a close pass (55.2 lunar distances, 0.1418 AU), travelling at 21.90 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th May, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the di...
Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and second deepest lake in the world, is now at its warmest in 1,500 years, threatening the fishing industry on which millions of lives depend, scientists said today. The evidence comes from cores drilled into sedimentary layers in the lake bottom that point to cl...
Orbital elements: 2010 JH88 Earth MOID = 0.3524 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 42.54612 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30701722 Peri. 354.70145 -0.14362917 -0.92571141 a 2.1761770 Node 103.20881 +0.92066052 -0.25467032 e 0.7754100 Incl. 21.06379 +0.36298053 +0.27964516 P 3.21 H 18.0 G 0.15 U 9...
Orbital elements: 2010 JG88 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0497 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 356.45257 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61790486 Peri. 106.39839 +0.69137578 +0.66683953 a 1.3651749 Node 213.39466 -0.68439038 +0.72780379 e 0.3813581 Incl. 30.34576 +0.23153690 +0.16008337 P 1.60 H 19.4 G 0...
Orbital elements: 2010 JF88 Earth MOID = 0.1422 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 353.60035 (2000.0) P Q n 0.31597516 Peri. 211.40829 +0.81135663 +0.52078702 a 2.1348503 Node 114.90238 -0.45706025 +0.84832614 e 0.6360181 Incl. 17.01944 -0.36441234 +0.09551775 P 3.12 H 18.6 G 0.15 U...
Orbital elements: 2010 EX11 Earth MOID = 0.0281 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 42.94242 (2000.0) P Q n 1.05518449 Peri. 42.64276 +0.68474853 -0.72867522 a 0.9555435 Node 4.19704 +0.61502513 +0.56871219 e 0.1104102 Incl. 9.69426 +0.39097767 +0.38157421 P 0.93 H 24.0 G 0.15 U 8 [url=...
Wari-Bateshwar ruins Wari-Bateshwar is the site of an ancient fort city dating back to 450 BC situated in the north-eastern part of Bangladesh. This 2500 years old site is a significant archaeological discovery. It challenges the earlier notions about the existence of early urban civilisation...
The Arlington Astronomy Night series is back again at Robbins Farm Park. Each Saturday night we'll have at least one telescope out to view objects in the night sky. We'll have a specific target object each time, but with a sky full of stars, we won't be limited to just that one. The events are totally inf...
A big name in the world of science, Jean-Pierre is an astrophysicist at the Paris-Meudon Observatory and research director at the French CNRS (The National Centre for Scientific Research). Specialised in black holes and cosmology, he has not only won countless academic awards but the 58-year-ol...
Astronomers Harry Shipman and Rob Lancaster stay up all night, watching the telescope at Mt. Cuba Observatory as it watches the sky. Thousands of miles away, in Texas and Arizona, professional and amateur observers are doing the same thing, using a camera attached to a telescope to take thousands o...
