Russian NTV International said the accident occurred during the launch of a Vostok rocket on 18 March, 1980. It left a total of 48 members of the Soviet Missile Troop dead. Read more
The 16 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2008 EZ84 will make a close pass (73.9-lunar distances, 0.1900-AU), travelling at 11.96-km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th March, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the...
Orbital elements: 1998 KN3 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0178 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 349.19144 (2000.0) P Q n 0.51497990 Peri. 70.19867 +0.90983469 -0.41396711 a 1.5414964 Node 314.24323 +0.36406870 +0.82965685 e 0.8733767 Incl. 2.30767 +0.19913517 +0.37456741 P 1.91 H 18.4 G 0.15 U...
Comet C/2010 B1 (Cardinal) was discovered on the 19th January, 2010, by R. Cardinal (Rothney Astrophysical Observatory). The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 6th February, 2011, at a distance of 2.92 AU from the Sun. At the time of its perihelion the co...
At 5:13 PDT, 15th March, 2010, a bright fireball broke-up west of Yuba City, California. Meteor shoots across CaliforniaClick to Play | View DetailsEd ~ video is unconfirmed and may, or may not, show a vapour trail.
Discovery of earliest known black holes announced by astronomers Astronomers have discovered what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based on observations with the NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other space observatories, wi...
UFO sightings were 'Chinese lanterns'[url=http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/loughborough-news/2010/03/17/ufo-sightings-were-chinese-lanterns-73871-26054223/]Read
Orbital elements: 2010 FB Earth MOID = 0.0576 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 0.02200 (2000.0) P Q n 0.74779501 Peri. 277.15010 +0.00083631 -0.99837331 a 1.2021196 Node 172.09828 +0.99988764 +0.00168812 e 0.2903877 Incl. 24.49975 -0.01496709 +0.05699024 P 1.32 H 23.7 G 0.15 U 8 [url...
Orbital elements: 2010 EC46 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0267 AU Epoch 2010 Mar. 5.0 TT = JDT 2455260.5 MPC M 253.63152 (2000.0) P Q n 0.51343494 Peri. 323.07339 +0.72223502 +0.67980771 a 1.5445872 Node 350.32658 -0.29620183 +0.13751703 e 0.4036290 Incl. 49.31976 -0.62501284 +0.72038222 P 1.92 H 20.1 G 0....
The 15 - 33 metre wide asteroid 2005 XA will make a close pass (77.7-lunar distances, 0.1996-AU), travelling at 18.10-km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th March, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dist...
'Green' satellite fuel designed to make space safer On the day running up to launch when a spacecraft is fuelled, ground personnel look more like astronauts than engineers, putting on spacesuit-like protective gear. This is an essential precaution when dealing with the current hydrazine fuel, b...
Title: Domenico Pacini, the forgotten pioneer of the discovery of cosmic rays Authors: Alessandro De Angelis, Nicola Giglietto, Sebastiano Stramaglia (Version v2) About a century ago, cosmic rays were identified as being a source of radiation on Earth. The proof came from two independent exper...
Title: A White Light Megaflare on the dM4.5e Star YZ CMi Authors: Adam F. Kowalski (1), Suzanne L. Hawley (1), Jon A. Holtzman (2), John P. Wisniewski (1), Eric J. Hilton (1) ((1) University of Washington, (2) New Mexico State University) On UT 2009 January 16, we observed a white light megaflare on th...
China is mulling plans for a facility to handle returning moon rock samples as part of a step-by-step plan to explore the lunar surface with robotic probes. China's multi-step program calls for lunar orbiters to scout the moon, followed by a soft landing on of the surface using an automated lunar rov...
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