The oldest known remains of seafaring ships have been identified in a series of cave stores on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Built of cedar and acacia wood, the ships had been attacked by marine worms, and the site seems to have been a shipbreaker’s yard dating to the middle of the second millennium BC.
...
A megalith menhir with rock engravings, called petroglyphs, carved on it has been discovered on an open field on the left bank of Nagaleuru, a tributary of the Krishna at Karampudi, 100 km from Guntur. Read more...
A bright magnitude 10.8 nova or new cataclysmic variable was discovered on the 6th May 2010, in the constellation Pegasus by D. Yi (Korea). Position(2000): RA 21 38 06.571, Dec +26 19 57.33CBET 2273 (Subscription)
Orbital elements: 2010 HZ103 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0334 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 348.81212 (2000.0) P Q n 0.83904381 Peri. 173.44206 +0.64316755 +0.71617840 a 1.1133019 Node 136.11664 -0.71910263 +0.68651749 e 0.1200679 Incl. 23.01048 -0.26311007 -0.12562737 P 1.17 H 20.6 G...
Orbital elements: 2010 HA104 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0437 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 353.46148 (2000.0) P Q n 0.80862630 Peri. 349.30394 +0.47166930 +0.84677853 a 1.1410486 Node 308.36256 -0.78408995 +0.27516272 e 0.1509056 Incl. 18.28110 -0.40339932 +0.45524894 P 1.22 H 21.7 G...
Asteroid (7476) Ogilsbie, at magnitude 14.3, will occult the magnitude 5.0 variable star CU Virginis (HD 124224) in the constellation Virgo, at 18:11 UT, 11th May 2010. The 2.7 second event is visible from Japan, China, India and Africa. Position(2000): RA 14 12 15.8043, Dec +02 24 33.958
Some 150 years after a Volkswagen-sized 10-ton asteroid shattered above the Plainview area, 90 percent of it still awaits to be found. Even so, more than 900 chunks of that stony Chondrite H5 meteorite, amounting to approximately 1,600 pounds, has been recovered since the first four pieces of the t...
Orbital elements: 2010 JJ3 Earth MOID = 0.0169 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 38.85668 (2000.0) P Q n 0.31472368 Peri. 291.51346 -0.97770710 -0.20778307 a 2.1405060 Node 236.50587 +0.20356592 -0.90266619 e 0.5723507 Incl. 2.07874 +0.05147573 -0.37685533 P 3.13 H 23.7 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Maxima of long period variable SU Ursae Minoris on the 8th May, 2010 Magnitude: 8.4-12.0 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 15 29 34.5707, Dec +78 38 00.283
Title: The mass of the white dwarf in GW Libra Authors: L. van Spaandonk, D. Steeghs, T. R. Marsh and S. G. Parsons We report a mass and rotational broadening (vsin i) for the pulsating white dwarf (WD) component of the WZ Sge type Dwarf Nova GW Lib based on high-resolution Very Large Telescope spectros...
Lembit Opik has lost his seat in the Commons to the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrat was beaten by the Conservatives in the mid Wales constituency of Montgomeryshire. Lembit Opik was a supporter of the UK NEO Task Force, and the Spaceguard Centre. Lembit Opik, the Liberal Democrat MP for Montgo...
Title: OGLE 2008--BLG--290: An accurate measurement of the limb darkening of a Galactic Bulge K Giant spatially resolved by microlensing Authors: P. Fouque, D. Heyrovsky, S. Dong, A. Gould, A. Udalski, M.D. Albrow, V. Batista, J.-P. Beaulieu, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, D.M. Bramich, S. Calchi Nov...
The magnitude 13.4 asteroid (910) Anneliese will occult the magnitude 6.2 star HD 135230 in the constellation Libra, at 14:22 UT, on the 7th May, 2010. The 4.7 second event is visible from New Zealand and SE Australia. Position (2000): RA 15 14 33.7583, Dec -17 46 06.860
