Orbital elements: 2010 GE35 Earth MOID = 0.0009 AU Epoch 2010 Mar. 25.0 TT = JDT 2455280.5 MPC M 338.97368 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29888099 Peri. 233.29172 -0.04119965 +0.99772549 a 2.2154937 Node 34.46292 -0.88401001 -0.01151428 e 0.6142437 Incl. 5.41004 -0.46564889 -0.06641744 P 3.30 H 22.8 G 0.15 Fro...
First Minotaur IV Lite launches from Vandenberg Team Vandenberg successfully launched the first Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 22, 2010, from Space Launch Complex-8 here. The rocket launched the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's Falcon Hypersonic Technol...
This sound was repeatedly recorded during summer, 1997 on the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array. The sound rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km. It yields a general location...
The magnitude 14.6 asteroid (295) Theresia will occult a magnitude 7.8 star, HD 125550, in the constellation Virgo, at 16:04 UT, 28th April 2010. The 1.9 second event will be visible from China and Russia. Position (2000): RA 14 20 27.5464, Dec -17 31 42.344
ESA Redu ground station contract extended ESA has renewed the contract to operate and develop its Redu ground station in Belgium. The centre is responsible for controlling and testing a range of satellites as part of the Agency's network of stations. The Redu Centre provides S-band links for ESA's...
Orbital elements: 2009 HC82 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0235 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 64.79849 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29099311 Peri. 291.70705 +0.91746366 +0.06497679 a 2.2553516 Node 293.55963 +0.15508685 -0.96693369 e 0.8222477 Incl. 154.64869 -0.36634479 -0.24661155 P 3.39 H 16.2 G 0...
The Detection of Extra-terrestrial Life and the Consequences for Science and Society, MeetingStart: 9.00am, 25 January 2010 End: 5.00pm, 26 January 2010 London, United Kingdom Organised by Dr Martin Dominik and Professor John Zarnecki Astronomers are now able to detect planets orbiting stars...
StarTiger secures way to eclipse Sun in space Last September a team of researchers assembled in southern France. Their six month assignment: develop a new type of space mission, targeting a mysterious segment of the Sun normally hidden in plain sight. Today the results of their race against the clo...
New DLR Institute of Solar Research receives a 27 million Euro grant from the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia Over the next five years, the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will sponsor the formation of the DLR Institute of Solar Research within the German Aeros...
A magnitude 16.1 supernova, 2010ck, was discovered by E. Guido, Tim Puckett, and J. Newton on the 26th April, 2010, in the galaxy, IC 4371, in the constellation Canes Venatici. The supernova is located 5.4" East and 6.2" South from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Posit...
Title: The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A Saturn-Mass Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M4V Star HIP 57050 Authors: Nader Haghighipour, Steven S. Vogt, R. Paul Butler, Eugenio J. Rivera, Greg Laughlin, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory W. Henry Precision radial velocities from Keck/HIRE...
A possible magnitude 11.2 nova was discovered on the 23rd April, 2010, in the constellation Sagittarius. Position (2000): RA 17 53 02.98, Dec -28 12 19.4
A Soyuz-U rocket with the Progress 35P/M-03M cargoship is scheduled to haunch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 01:17 GMT (05:17 Moscow time), 15th October, 2009. The new generation digitally controlled Progress cargoship will deliver over 2.5 metric tons of cargo to the Internati...
Crom Cruach or Cromm Crúaich, also known as Cenn Cruach or Cenncroithi, was a deity of pre-Christian Ireland, reputedly propitiated with human sacrifice, whose worship is said to have been ended by St.Patrick. Read more