* Astronomy

Northwest Africa 480 Northwest Africa Found 2000 November Martian meteorite (basaltic shergottite) A 28 g stone almost completely covered with fusion crust was found in Morocco. Read more

ATel 9671: ASASSN-16mc: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in ESO 233-IG014

The detailed design for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) developed by a U.S.-Canadian team is capable of delivering on the full promise of its enormous light-collecting area, according to the findings of an independent panel of experts. With the TMT, astronomers will be able to analyse...

Title: Statistical Study of Visual Binaries Author: H. I. Abdel-Rahman, M. I. Nouh, W. H. Elsanhoury In this paper, some statistical distributions of wide pairs included in Double Star Catalogue are investigated. Frequency distributions and testing hypothesis are derived for some basic param...

Title: A Renormalisable Supersymmetric SU(5) Model Authors: Jun-hui Zheng, Da-Xin Zhang In the Supersymmetric SU(5) Model of Unification with the Missing Partner Mechanism, we present a renormalisable model using the Georgi-Jarlsog mechanism to describe the fermion masses and mixing. At th...

Title: One Law To Rule Them All: The Radial Acceleration Relation of Galaxies Author: Federico Lelli (1), Stacy S. McGaugh (1), James M. Schombert (2), Marcel S. Pawlowski (1, 3) ((1) Case Western Reserve University, (2) University of Oregon, (3) University of California, Irvine) We study the lin...

Two panel photomosaic of a new sunspot 12605 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter. Prime focus. Clear Sky. Processed in MS ICE and Paint Shop Pro.

ATel 9692: ASASSN-16mj: a candidate AM CVn system

The Malaga (OC) meteorite fell in New Mexico, USA, in November 1933. A total mass of 150 g was recovered. 32° 13'N, 104° 0'W

Maxima of the long period variable star T Hydrae on the 6th December, 2011. Magnitude range: 6.7 - 13.5 Period: 298.7 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 08 55 39.84531 | Dec. -09° 08' 29.3588'' Google earth file: T Hydrae.kmz (1kb, kmz)

ATel 9691: MASTER: bright PSN discovered in Argentina

Copenhagen Suborbitals: Nexø I launch from the Baltic Sea Spoiler

HighlightsHalloween, the word itself, is a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. It actually has its origins in the Celtic New Year. The holiday was called Samhain (Sah-ween). The date marked the beginning of winter. The Celts believed that at the time of Samhain, more so than any other tim...

The 1500 - 3400 metre wide asteroid 2003 YT1 will make a close pass (46.4 Lunar Distances, 0.1192 AU), travelling at 25.27 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th October, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

NASA Television to Air Return of Three Space Station Crew Members Three crew members on the International Space Station are scheduled to depart the orbital outpost Saturday, Oct. 29, with coverage of activities beginning the day before on NASA Television and the agencys website. Expedition 49 Co...