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Get a closer view of the heavens through Kansas Wesleyan University's newly restored 16-inch telescope Friday evening during the March Skywatch event. The reopening of recently refurbished observatory atop Peters Science Hall is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. Friday. [url=http://www.ksall...

Orbital elements: 2010 CS19 Earth MOID = 0.0021 AU Epoch 2010 Feb. 13.0 TT = JDT 2455240.5 MPC M 6.99416 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43124470 Peri. 340.39320 -0.56122684 -0.82654233 a 1.7350828 Node 143.71109 +0.76874102 -0.53983643 e 0.4391244 Incl. 4.16998 +0.30669476 -0.15938758 P 2.29 H 28.1 G 0.15 From...

Orbital elements: 2010 EV45 Earth MOID = 0.1698 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 300.88921 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43562440 Peri. 123.11394 -0.38813394 +0.91507134 a 1.7234337 Node 123.67015 -0.88333169 -0.33548665 e 0.3355798 Incl. 7.56243 -0.26282534 -0.22381500 P 2.26 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 9 [...

The 260 - 570 metre wide asteroid 2000 AF6 will make a close pass (70.8-lunar distances, 0.1819-AU), travelling at 17.72-km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th March, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dist...

A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars. The stars, called the Berkeley 59 cluster, are the blue dots to the right of the image center. They are ripening out of the dust cloud from which they formed, and at just a fe...

South Africa's chief astronomer, the highly regarded director of the South African Astronomical Observatory Phil Charles, has been suspended by the National Research Foundation. He faces potential dismissal over his alleged leaking of confidential information to fellow scientists and is to...

Fireball streaking across sky alarmed witnesses A bizarre daytime occurrence had the phones ringing in WLBT's newsroom Sunday. Viewers calling with wide spread reports of mysterious fireballs in the sky and loud booms baffled state agencies and eye witnesses alike. [url=http://www.wlbt.com...

Maxima of long period variable SY Virgo on the 17th March, 2010 Magnitude: 9.6 - 13.4 V Type: Mira Period: 236.65 days Position (2000): RA 13 58 37.6, Dec -04 34 33

Maxima of long period variable U Virgo on the 17th March, 2010 Magnitude: 7.4 - 13.5 V Type: Mira Period: 206.64 days Position (2000): RA 12 51 05.7379, Dec +05 33 11.582

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Orbital elements: P/2002 CF140 = 2010 E4 (LINEAR) Epoch 2002 July 25.0 TT = JDT 2452480.5 T 2002 July 7.50635 TT MPC q 2.8502574 (2000.0) P Q n 0.13240949 Peri. 358.11234 -0.99932557 -0.03671258 a 3.8123255 Node 179.77926 +0.03576233 -0.97778805 e 0.2523573 Incl. 11.52073 +0.00833433 -0.206355...

Orbital elements: C/2010 E3 (WISE) T 2010 Apr. 4.326 TT MPC q 2.27420 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 49.974 -0.218474 +0.416021 Node 117.328 +0.257963 -0.847773 e 1.0 Incl. 96.480 +0.941129 +0.328949 From 26 observations 2010 Mar. 5-15. [url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/mpec/K10/K10F01.html]MP...

Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2010 (CAP 2010), Cape Town, South Africa CAP2010 - Vuvuzelas and astronomers Click to Play | View Details

Title: A New Type of Dark Energy Model Authors: Yi Zhang, Hui Li In this paper, we propose a general form of the equation of state (EoS) which is the function of the fractional dark energy density \Omega_{d}. At least, five related models, the cosmological constant model, the holographic dark energy...

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