MIT President Susan Hockfield and Paolo Scaroni, CEO of the Italian energy company Eni, today celebrated the opening of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Centre (SFC), headquartered on the MIT campus, which promotes research in advanced solar technologies through projects ranging from new material...
Orbital elements: 2010 JF Earth MOID = 0.3451 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 112.56603 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49296463 Peri. 255.93871 -0.29283712 -0.84972335 a 1.5870558 Node 221.13907 +0.90353042 -0.39594373 e 0.2837777 Incl. 41.79075 -0.31285653 -0.34813616 P 2.00 H 19.4 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Orbital elements: 2010 JE Earth MOID = 0.1141 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 358.52761 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20035630 Peri. 65.53106 +0.40893647 +0.89290923 a 2.8924601 Node 229.95927 -0.90073887 +0.36182353 e 0.6692350 Incl. 14.24385 -0.14642556 +0.26794932 P 4.92 H 20.0 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Multimillion-dollar meteorite heads for Portland State An Argentine engineer in Buenos Aires picks through a pile of rocks and artefacts dug up over the years on his family farm. He settles on one peculiar object. It's unlike the other things tossed on the porch -- pestles and bowl-shaped mortars u...
Asteroids named after four Chinese scientists Four asteroids have been named after Chinese scientists Wu Wenjun, Jin Yilian, Wang Yongzhi, and Ye Duzheng at a naming ceremony in Beijing on May 4, 2010. They are the four winners of China's Top National Science and Technology Award (also known as Chi...
A Cluster and a Sea of Galaxies A new wide-field image released today by ESO displays many thousands of distant galaxies, and more particularly a large group belonging to the massive galaxy cluster known as Abell 315. As crowded as it may appear, this assembly of galaxies is only the proverbial "...
The Proton M launch vehicle, utilizing a 5-burn Breeze M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, with the IndoStar II/ProtoStar II satellite on board. The first three stages of the Proton will use a standard ascent profile to place the ascent unit (Breeze M uppe...
Austrian village seeks UNESCO protection for its starry skies Daytime visitors to Grossmugl might wonder why this plain Austrian village is seeking to become a UNESCO world heritage site. But the question is quickly answered at sunset, when the village's grain silo and church tower blend into the...
Orbital elements: 2010 GU21 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0093 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 16.04036 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30445428 Peri. 201.20442 -0.20288446 +0.97807971 a 2.1883729 Node 57.11761 -0.89017779 -0.16428084 e 0.5628200 Incl. 3.20031 -0.40794778 -0.12795269 P 3.24 H 20.8 G 0.15...
New Mexico meteor 4 MayClick to Play | View Details This footage shot May 4, 2010, at 5:14 a.m. MDT from a video camera at Sandia National Laboratories shows (in lower right of frame) what is believed to be an approximately basketball-sized meteor over the south/southwest New Mexico or possibly nort...
A large space rock may have exploded over Antarctica thousands of years ago, showering a large area with debris, according to new research. The evidence comes from accumulations of tiny meteoritic particles and a layer of extraterrestrial dust found in both the Dome C and Dome Fuji ice cores from An...
NASA Completes Altitude Testing of Aerojet Advanced Liquid Oxygen/Liquid Methane Rocket Engine Aerojet, a GenCorp company, announced today that NASA has successfully completed altitude testing of Aerojet's advanced 5500-lbf Liquid Oxygen (LOX)/Liquid Methane (LCH4) Rocket Engine at NASA...
CSIRO telescope spots mega-star cradle Using a CSIRO radio telescope, an international team of researchers has caught an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust in the process of collapsing in on itself - a discovery which could help solve one of astronomy's enduring conundrums: 'How do massive star...
