Title: Infrared and kinematic properties of the substellar object G 196-3B Authors: M. R. Zapatero Osorio (CAB, CSIC-INTA), R. Rebolo (IAC, CSIC, ULL), G. Bihain (IAC, CSIC, ULL), V. J. S. Béjar (IAC, ULL), J. A. Caballero (CAB, CSIC-INTA), C. Álvarez (IAC) We report unusual near- and mid-infrare...
Title: Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the Space Weathering and Gardening rate on S-complex asteroids Authors: Mark Willman, Robert Jedicke, Nicholas Moskovitz, David Nesvorný, David Vokrouhlický, Thais Mothé-Diniz We have extended our earlier work on space weathering of...
Telescope donated to Darwen school in memory of headteacher A state-of-the art telescope is being given to Darwen Vale High School in memory of a former headteacher. Staff and students will be looking to the stars when the scientific star gazing device is fitted into the Blackburn Road school's obs...
Date: 22 and 23 April 2010 Venue: Royal Astronomical Society Burlington House, Piccadilly, London To celebrate the ending of the IYA2009 Cornerstone Project 'She is an Astronomer', a conference is being held in London. The conference will be opened by Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell. There will be talk...
Orbital elements: 2009 UY19 Earth MOID = 0.0113 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 336.08969 (2000.0) P Q n 0.95742216 Peri. 94.14135 -0.60123585 -0.79438873 a 1.0195309 Node 33.30764 +0.65645294 -0.55267116 e 0.0311184 Incl. 9.05064 +0.45561496 -0.25199431 P 1.03 H 23.3 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2010 GP33 Earth MOID = 0.0176 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 35.59911 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52562282 Peri. 218.01842 -0.51449344 +0.85682090 a 1.5206172 Node 21.08414 -0.76178324 -0.43851675 e 0.3554356 Incl. 5.41965 -0.39367855 -0.27122133 P 1.88 H 25.7 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
A spiral of rock almost three metres long that looks like a giant snail but is a mystery. Dinocochlea Ingens (terrible/huge unknown snail) No one knows what this bizarre object is. It, and a few others like it, have been found in East Sussex in southern England, in rocks that are about 135 million years...
Orbital elements: 2009 RB4 Earth MOID = 0.2128 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 18.17822 (2000.0) P Q n 0.41150758 Peri. 86.55595 -0.02698235 +0.99962218 a 1.7901283 Node 181.92146 -0.96796074 -0.02743601 e 0.3598006 Incl. 8.99032 -0.24964765 -0.00166305 P 2.40 H 18.2 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Engineer and astronomer Bill Gordon, who designed and managed the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, has died of natural causes at his home. Read more
Orbital elements: 2010 HG20 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0129 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 138.18790 (2000.0) P Q n 0.69758522 Peri. 57.74558 -0.34477670 -0.90427013 a 1.2591318 Node 54.49818 +0.72303792 -0.42692970 e 0.2861722 Incl. 18.02017 +0.59861941 -0.00515338 P 1.41 H 21.0 G 0.1...
Orbital elements: 2010 GO67 Earth MOID = 0.0170 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 24.53134 (2000.0) P Q n 0.56542993 Peri. 128.42945 +0.85827983 +0.51220959 a 1.4483833 Node 200.81769 -0.49417058 +0.80832523 e 0.7354727 Incl. 5.09736 -0.13838775 +0.29026135 P 1.74 H 24.9 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Five Odessa College students were standing in the laboratories of NASA Wednesday morning working with robotics and aeronautics to come up with a solution to whatever problem they were presented. They are there again today as part of a state-funded program known as Community College Aerospace Sch...
Title: Discovery of a Nova-Like Cataclysmic Variable in the Kepler Mission Field Authors: Kurtis A. Williams, Domitilla de Martino, Roberto Silvotti, Ivan Bruni, Patrick Dufour, Thomas S. Riecken, Martin Kronberg, Anjum Mukadam, G. Handler We announce the identification of a new cataclysmic...
