* Astronomy

Emory University's Tibet Week Celebrates 10th Anniversary March 22-27. Read more

Maxima of long period variable Y Scorpii on the 27th March, 2010 Magnitude: 10.9 - 15 V Type: Mira Period: 351.88 days Position (2000): RA 16 29 26.427, Dec -19 20 50.73

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An enormous submarine landslide that disintegrated 60,000 years ago produced the longest flow of sand and mud yet documented on Earth. The massive submarine flow travelled 1,500 kilometres the distance from London to Rome before depositing its load. Details of the landslide and consequent sedi...

Alliant, Lockheed Team for Smaller Satellite Launches Alliant Techsystems Inc. is looking to forge two new partnerships that will help it expand into new markets as it seeks to keep up with shifts in U.S. military and civilian space programs. [url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...

Avionics expert Dr K. Radhakrishnan has been appointed the next chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Read more

Explorer 3 (international designation 1958 Gamma) was an artificial satellite of the Earth, nearly identical to the first United States artificial satellite Explorer 1 in its design and mission. It was the second successful launch in the Explorer program. The satellite was launched from Cape Ca...

Amazing pictures of Earth captured by one man, a balloon and his compact camera He used GPS tracking technology similar to an in-car sat-nav to follow its progress - and an attached radio transmitter to find it when it parachutes back to earth. The photos taken by his device were so spectacular that Na...

Comet P/2001 R6 (LINEAR-Skiff) is at perihelion (2.179 AU) on the 26th March, 2010.

Orbital elements: 2009 XE11 Earth MOID = 0.3743 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 329.18631 (2000.0) P Q n 0.16366990 Peri. 107.62998 -0.85825983 +0.45390052 a 3.3099658 Node 99.94146 -0.51231023 -0.78543303 e 0.6127815 Incl. 14.07311 +0.03046798 -0.42079600 P 6.02 H 16.7 G 0.15 U 4 [...

The 140 - 310 metre wide asteroid 2006 SS134 will make a close pass (56.1 lunar distances, 0.1441 AU), travelling at 14.96 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th March, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), th...

Orbital elements: 2010 FT9 Earth MOID = 0.0466 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 350.09333 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21887875 Peri. 132.24911 -0.81165779 -0.58400557 a 2.7268860 Node 12.03510 +0.51720901 -0.72822545 e 0.6285113 Incl. 3.35754 +0.27148935 -0.35864355 P 4.50 H 24.4 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...

Maxima of long period variable DG Cygni on the 26th March, 2010. Magnitude: 12.6 - 17.45 V Type: Mira Period: 457.61 days Position (2000): RA 20 43 25.46, Dec +43 11 50.7

The main belt asteroid, 2010 FT6, was discovered by the Zvezdno Obshtestvo Observatory (Bulgaria) on the 16th March, 2010. 2010 FT6Epoch 2010 Mar. 5.0 TT = JDT 2455260.5 MPC M 145.35689 (2000.0) P Q n 0.18857277 Peri. 198.60829 +0.94816570 -0.31777616 T = 2454489.67350 JDT a 3.0117348 Node 179....

A magnitude 15.2, Type Ia supernova, 2010ba, was discovered on the 21st March, 2010, by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey in an anonymous galaxy in the constellation Leo. The galaxy is located 1.1" west and 1.3" south form the centre of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA = 11 58 20.68,...