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Impressive landmarks hidden for 40,000 years rise from sea-floor Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. The deposits were discovered rece...

An ILS Proton-M rocket with a Breeze M upper stage is scheduled to launch the SES 1 (AMC-4R) telecommunications spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 15:19 MST (11:19 GMT), 24th April, 2010. The telecommunications satellite will operate from the 101° West orbital slot. [url=...

Orissa Government to set up observatory science park at Khandapada In a significant development Orissa government has decided to set up an observatory, a science park and an information centre at the birth and work place, Khandapada of Samanta Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Pathani Samanta n...

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An object that at first looked like an asteroid when discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on January 11, 2008 was identified with an object discovered by Spacewatch on 01 November 2007 and indexed under the designation of 2007 VO53. Observations before the Mount Lemmon discovery, dating fro...

Asteroid (154029) 2002 CY46 Minimum distance: 0.164 AU Date of closest approach: 2010-09-02 09:36:00 UT Date of maximum brightness: 2010-09-03 11:00:00 UT Maximum brightness at closest approach: 14.5 V. Maximum angular velocity: 12.23"/min maximum date and time the angular velocity: 2...

Orbital elements: 2010 HP20 Earth MOID = 0.0012 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 41.48792 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33254349 Peri. 320.92429 -0.98197095 -0.17695141 a 2.0633382 Node 209.08986 +0.18863923 -0.93996737 e 0.5511473 Incl. 7.86070 -0.01217797 -0.29180396 P 2.96 H 27.5 G 0.15 U 6 [...

The 190 - 420 metre wide asteroid 2004 US1 will make a close pass (26.2 lunar distances, 0.0673 AU), travelling at 18.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th April, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...

Orbital elements: 2008 EM9 Earth MOID = 0.1345 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 333.03118 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35924126 Peri. 181.68269 +0.62387837 -0.77152276 a 1.9598007 Node 229.73945 +0.71892577 +0.62909305 e 0.8515974 Incl. 9.39823 +0.30646616 +0.09483971 P 2.74 H 17.5 G 0.15 U 3 [...

Orbital elements: C/2010 F1 (Boattini) T 2009 Nov. 13.8130 TT MPC q 3.634328 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 128.4018 -0.5071303 -0.8233975 Node 343.7994 +0.1567477 +0.2023953 e 1.0 Incl. 65.8726 +0.8474957 -0.5301441 From 61 observations 2010 Feb. 20-Mar. 18. [url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/m...

Orbital elements: P/2010 E2 (Jarnac) T 2010 Apr. 7.8086 TT MPC q 2.397960 (2000.0) P Q n 0.0389308 Peri. 8.2567 -0.9940456 +0.1085274 a 8.621986 Node 177.8984 -0.1088236 -0.9842136 e 0.721879 Incl. 15.4256 -0.0055474 -0.1398050 P 25.3 From 36 observations 2010 Feb. 17-Mar. 13. [url=http://www...

A planetarium costing Rs.65 million is being set up in Haryana in the memory of astronaut Kalpana Chawla and will become functional this year. The planetarium is being built at the historic town of Kurukshetra in Haryana, Deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan said Monday. [url=http://www.indianm...

The Oxus River of the Greeks has been known to historical record for literally thousands of years. Its present-day name is the Amu Darya (or Amu river) and its course can be traced in any atlas. Turn to the map of Western Asia and find it: the river springs up in the Pamir mountains, runs west through what...

Orbital elements: 2010 HO20 Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 22.40710 (2000.0) P Q n 0.12138012 Peri. 202.23353 -0.78471387 +0.57782635 a 4.0399037 Node 19.08943 -0.41317709 -0.21777031 e 0.5585831 Incl. 43.31810 -0.46207016 -0.78657028 P 8.12 H 16.5 G 0.15 U 9 [url=http://www.min...