Snowball Solar System (SSS) If bacteria are ubiquitous in the Milky Way Galaxy, then our solar system also must be contaminated. Frozen comet ice may not be conducive to life unless liquid water exists in the core. As the astrophysicist Thomas Gold said: the history of life is just "a gradual sy...
The NASA Allsky meteor cameras at the Marshall Space Flight Centre recorded a fireball around 11:19 p.m. local time, 19th March, 2010. Alabama FireballClick to Play | View Details
A magnitude 16.0 supernova, 2010bj, was discovered on the 27th March, 2010, by L. Cox and T. Puckett, in the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 2357 in the constellation Gemini. The supernova is located 31.8" east and 19.4" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2...
The 580 - 1300 metre wide asteroid (220124) 2002 TE66 will make a close pass (48.0 lunar distances, 0.1233 AU), travelling at 26.90 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th March, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD),...
Orbital elements: 2010 EZ45 Earth MOID = 0.1135 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 322.46848 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52163025 Peri. 166.14021 -0.99902068 -0.03187512 a 1.5283666 Node 12.15826 +0.01106691 -0.85151630 e 0.2753193 Incl. 8.37783 +0.04283920 -0.52335836 P 1.89 H 22.4 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Orbital elements: 2010 FW9 Earth MOID = 0.0022 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 305.01010 (2000.0) P Q n 0.48397146 Peri. 220.52683 -0.70952864 +0.70466023 a 1.6066559 Node 4.28476 -0.62877579 -0.63001355 e 0.4191634 Incl. 3.68564 -0.31813537 -0.32639989 P 2.04 H 26.7 G 0.15 U 9 [url...
A magnitude 19 object, that had the appearance of an asteroid when it was discovered on September 25, 2007 by A. Boattini (MT Lemmon Survey) , has now revealed its cometary nature after confirmation observations. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet C/2007 S2 (Lemmon) indicate a periheli...
Singer (Tsai Ching) reports this morning from Fuzhou, just a year on from a witnessed meteorite fall. "meteorites have some damage, and will cause irreparable loss to subsequent scientific research" - Zhang Lin, Beijing Planetarium. A month ago, a meteorite from space that landed in...
Maxima of long period variable DL Pegasi on the 28th March, 2010 Magnitude: 9.7 - <15.0 V Type: Mira Period: 180.4 days Position (2000): RA 23 48 27.0, Dec +15 38 30
Orbital elements: 2010 FT Earth MOID = 0.0118 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 236.88088 (2000.0) P Q n 0.86035650 Peri. 249.01724 -0.16010409 +0.98684256 a 1.0948394 Node 11.83718 -0.85991256 -0.12822187 e 0.2087484 Incl. 6.31088 -0.48468244 -0.09849320 P 1.15 H 25.4 G 0.15 U 9 [url...
Maxima of long period variable W Sagitta on the 28th March, 2010 Magnitude: 8.8 - 14.4 V Type: Mira Period: 278.26 days Position (2000): RA 19 19 32.37, Dec +17 12 19.1
Orbital elements: 2010 FS9 Earth MOID = 0.0281 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 338.06542 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23740674 Peri. 193.35196 -0.94162258 +0.33661960 a 2.5830968 Node 6.32828 -0.30381458 -0.84212241 e 0.6026472 Incl. 3.03906 -0.14506415 -0.42132777 P 4.15 H 24.9 G 0.15 U 7 [url...
UK researchers have developed a device to drag space debris out of orbit. They plan to launch a demonstration of their "CubeSail" next year. It is a small satellite cube that deploys a thin, 25-sq-m plastic sheet. Residual air molecules still present in the spacecraft's low-Earth orbit...
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