* Astronomy

The Latin word for Grey is Griseus. Canus means light grey, (not to be confused with Canis -dog). 'Griseus' is medieval Latin; classic Latin has no word for grey.

Moon Zoo - with your help, we hope to study the lunar surface in unprecedented detail. Read more

The 42nd annual RTMC Astronomy Expo will take place on Friday, May 14 through Sunday, May 16, 2010. The dates correspond to a new Moon weekend, and mark a significant change from the traditional Memorial Day weekend dates. It will be held at YMCA Camp Oakes, five miles southeast of Big Bear City, Calif...

Orbital elements: C/2010 E5 (Scotti) T 2011 Jan. 20.812 TT MPC q 4.02520 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 218.367 -0.629822 +0.768630 Node 13.857 -0.545662 -0.335267 e 1.0 Incl. 27.867 -0.552790 -0.544797 From 51 observations 2010 Mar. 14-17.[url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/mpec/K10/K10F14.htm...

Orbital elements: C/2010 E1 (Garradd) T 2009 Oct. 24.604 TT MPC q 2.56144 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 291.168 -0.300399 -0.937320 Node 169.281 +0.677506 -0.079355 e 1.0 Incl. 71.721 -0.671376 +0.339313 From 27 observations 2010 Mar. 11-12. [url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/mpec/K10/K10E59.h...

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the first-ever Delta launch Read more

The Whole Earth Telescope (WET), a worldwide network of observatories coordinated by the University of Delaware, is synchronising its lenses to provide round-the-clock coverage of a cooling star. As the star dims in the twilight of its life, scientists hope it will shed light on the workings of ou...

Orbital elements: 2010 GF65 Epoch 2010 Apr. 14.0 TT = JDT 2455300.5 MPC M 348.49573 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00279654 Peri. 267.02302 -0.12274900 +0.99233595 a 49.8947947 Node 355.84501 -0.81469455 -0.10893375 e 0.5459294 Incl. 11.31371 -0.56674992 -0.05833350 P 352 H 7.3 G 0.15 From 14 observations 20...

Orbital elements: 2010 JT34 Earth MOID = 0.0564 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 289.91138 (2000.0) P Q n 0.53727855 Peri. 324.91329 +0.77197566 -0.19588978 a 1.4985447 Node 58.72849 +0.60998725 +0.49589014 e 0.4133635 Incl. 45.03217 -0.17879915 +0.84600246 P 1.83 H 18.6 G 0.15 U 9...

Resident suspects his rock find is from another planet Devan Werner is a pretty productive 14-year-old. His spare time is spent running track, building award-winning pens out of circuit boards and collecting unique rocks. Recently, the Shelby Township youth was taking advantage of the warm weat...

China's first man in space has said that Chinese astronauts eat dog meat to keep their strength up as they orbit around the earth. Yang Liwei, the 44-year-old military pilot who commanded the Shenzhou Five mission in 2003, revealed the menu on-board the spacecraft in his autobiography, The Nine Lev...

On 14 May 2010, Roger Davies, Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, will become President of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Professor Davies will begin his term of office at the 190th Annual General Meeting of the RAS and will serve until May 2012. [url=http:/...

It is 100 years since the birth of the only British woman ever to have won a Nobel Prize for science. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived most of her adult life in Warwickshire, is credited with discovering the three dimensional structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. [url=http://news....

A super-massive black hole -- heavier than one billion suns -- appears headed on an exit out of its home galaxy at 670,000 miles-an-hour. Noted by NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, the object called CXO J122518.6+144545 resides some 607,000 light years away in the SDSS DR7 galaxy (one light yea...

Title: HAT-P-16b: A 4 Mj Planet Transiting A Bright Star On An Eccentric Orbit Authors: L. A. Buchhave, G. A. Bakos, J. D. Hartman, G. Torres, G. Kovacs, D. W. Latham, R. W. Noyes, G. A. Esquerdo, M. Everett, A. W. Howard, G. W. Marcy, D. A. Fischer, J. A. Johnson, J. Andersen, G. Furesz, G. Perumpilly, D....