MTI satellite celebrates 10 years in orbit, continues to serve For researchers at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories, the evening of March 12 marked a proud moment. Hundreds of miles above the Earth, the Multispectral Thermal Imager satellite reached its 10th anniversary in service as it comple...
The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term "plutoid" as a name for dwarf planets like Pluto. Sidestepping concerns of many astronomers worldwide, the IAU's decision, at a meeting of its Executive Committee in Oslo, comes almost two years after it stripped Pluto of it...
The 370 - 820 metre wide asteroid 2008 VK14 will make a close pass (75.6 lunar distances, 0.1942 AU), travelling at 11.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th July, 2010 @ 18:59 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...
Ancient sea goddess celebrated
Tens of thousands of believers have gathered in the port city of Tianjin. They are there for a week-long commemoration of the goddess Mazu. We bring you the grandeur of the opening ceremony.
The Mazu Cultural Festival opened at Heavenly Queen Temple, one of the...
Maxima of long period variable V Monoceros on the 20th April, 2010 Magnitude: 7.0-13.1 V Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 06 22 43.5825, Dec -02 11 43.501
At 174 trillionths of a trillionth of a newton, new 'yoctoforce' is smallest yet measured. By pushing a cluster of just 60 ions with a tiny electric field, researchers have measured the most minuscule force ever. The result, measuring mere yoctonewtons (10^-24 newtons), beats previous record low...
South Korea plans to launch its first weather-communications satellite into space in March, 2010, the country's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said on Friday. According to the ministry, the satellite was developed jointly by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Fr...
Saturday, April 24, 2010 - Celebrate International Astronomy Day with the Southworth Planetarium. For the price of one donation, you can see any of our following shows: 10:00 a.m. Read more
The magnitude 18.0 asteroid (5616) Vogtland will occult the magnitude 6.4 star HD 61035 in the constellation Gemini, at 16:34 UT, 20 Apr 2010. The 0.7 second event will be visible from India and Arabia. Position (2000): RA07 38 14.3697, Dec +24 21 37.588
Giant NASA balloon lands in outback Scientists are trying to recover a massive NASA balloon and several tonnes of equipment that drifted into outback Queensland over the weekend. The 300-metre balloon was launched recently from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to gather data about the uni...
Orbital elements: 2010 FA6 Earth MOID = 0.1089 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 310.58141 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40307462 Peri. 230.62924 -0.67623844 +0.73664254 a 1.8150102 Node 356.78836 -0.62654141 -0.58060253 e 0.4132335 Incl. 7.90280 -0.38748862 -0.34678302 P 2.45 H 24.2 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 JO2 Earth MOID = 0.0604 AU Epoch 2009 May 9.0 TT = JDT 2454960.5 MPC M 86.84565 (2000.0) P Q n 1.56437180 Peri. 218.84903 +0.36958995 -0.91760228 a 0.7349245 Node 210.29700 +0.90838751 +0.38994353 e 0.4688737 Incl. 16.86025 +0.19553875 -0.07713689 P 0.63 H 19.4 G 0.15 From 1...
Orbital elements: 2010 HB Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 354.81353 (2000.0) P Q n 0.19417723 Peri. 234.86915 -0.52771575 +0.84584883 a 2.9535014 Node 5.47330 -0.21684200 -0.04557089 e 0.3918718 Incl. 54.67358 -0.82127683 -0.53147253 P 5.08 H 18.1 G 0.15 U 9 [url=http://www.minor...
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