New experiment could reveal make-up of the Universe Scientists at the University of Liverpool are constructing highly sensitive detectors as part of an international project to understand the elements that make up the Universe. The detectors will become part of the Advanced Gamma Tracking Arra...
Orbital elements: 2010 GF7 Earth MOID = 0.0062 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 32.74071 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45043023 Peri. 215.06554 -0.50172837 +0.86459527 a 1.6854571 Node 24.85374 -0.77808047 -0.43729989 e 0.4509449 Incl. 3.72010 -0.37796748 -0.24747491 P 2.19 H 25.7 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
NASA and the Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles have unveiled the first Global Hawk aircraft system to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the world's first fully autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft. The debut took place Thursday at NAS...
The 190 - 430 metre wide asteroid 2007 RF2 will make a close pass (76.3-lunar distances, 0.1961-AU), travelling at 25.62-km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th April, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the d...
The mystery "orange fireball" spotted in the skies above Nairn sounds similar to other strange objects reported to the Highland News recently. And it comes as the Ministry of Defence last week released its full archive of reported UFO sightings - after being inundated with Freedom of In...
Orbital elements: 2010 GR7 Earth MOID = 0.2640 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 8.02496 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40788164 Peri. 193.65635 +0.97394983 +0.15639619 a 1.8007217 Node 155.43507 -0.15255126 +0.98764511 e 0.8424104 Incl. 23.26447 -0.16777917 +0.00986734 P 2.42 H 18.2 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
A Soyuz-U rocket with a military Kosmos-2455 satellite is scheduled to lift off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 1:20 (MST), 28th July, 2009. The orbital parameters and satellite details have not been made available. Apogee: 500 km (?), Inclination: 72° (?)
Mysterious planet-like object reveals its surprising identity A mysterious planet-like object orbiting a not-quite-starlike "brown dwarf" is the most recent enigma discovered by astronomers with their ever-more powerful telescopes. Kamen Todorov, a graduate student at Penn St...
Orbital elements: 2005 GY110 Earth MOID = 0.2138 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 52.53480 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39205181 Peri. 169.05560 -0.24197137 -0.94971666 a 1.8488730 Node 294.70082 +0.87288335 -0.12363441 e 0.6861749 Incl. 12.63442 +0.42370333 -0.28766785 P 2.51 H 18.3 G 0.15 U...
Overlooking Los Angeles, six small domes nestle amid the pine trees atop Mount Wilson. Individually, the 1-metre telescopes inside those buildings have no chance of competing with the biggest ground and space telescopes. But collectively, the Mount Wilson telescopes are producing some of the s...
War bunker turned into observatory Think of the north Norfolk coast and a number of images will spring to mind: Cromer carnival, Cley marshes or maybe Happisburgh lighthouse. But how many people are likely to picture a former war bunker which now houses a host of state-of-the-art equipment produci...
Orbital elements: 2010 GG7 Earth MOID = 0.3011 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 32.89298 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40400227 Peri. 97.07975 -0.73743741 +0.64722356 a 1.8122308 Node 123.46305 -0.67411446 -0.68755881 e 0.3429635 Incl. 13.38352 -0.04190172 -0.32918771 P 2.44 H 21.4 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Orbital elements: 2010 GA7 Earth MOID = 0.1617 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 234.60376 (2000.0) P Q n 1.13352655 Peri. 25.84312 +0.69668105 -0.69387309 a 0.9109927 Node 21.64736 +0.54224899 +0.34311434 e 0.4014289 Incl. 29.58752 +0.46968238 +0.63309769 P 0.87 H 21.3 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
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