Orbital elements: 2008 HY37 Earth MOID = 0.1156 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 89.11870 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43673731 Peri. 1.53152 +0.88793692 -0.38385923 a 1.7205047 Node 26.11933 +0.41565399 +0.43369246 e 0.3544645 Incl. 35.14382 +0.19697662 +0.81520730 P 2.26 H 18.4 G 0.15 U 4 [url...
Orbital elements: 2007 RM133 Earth MOID = 0.2226 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 287.90896 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29985300 Peri. 181.00118 +0.29545372 +0.93842821 a 2.2107033 Node 106.20121 -0.87522192 +0.34101177 e 0.4400682 Incl. 10.74606 -0.38300613 -0.05534862 P 3.29 H 18.3 G 0.15 U...
Orbital elements: 2007 JZ20 Earth MOID = 0.0654 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 210.82817 (2000.0) P Q n 0.65625427 Peri. 139.00324 +0.88180322 +0.41306792 a 1.3114587 Node 200.52532 -0.35537457 +0.89922521 e 0.3354855 Incl. 40.47452 +0.31005161 -0.14411423 P 1.50 H 18.5 G 0.15 U 2...
Orbital elements: 2010 ES12 Earth MOID = 0.0033 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 353.45381 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27767478 Peri. 312.36775 -0.35828536 -0.93351083 a 2.3269038 Node 158.61541 +0.86727557 -0.33824529 e 0.6396448 Incl. 2.16157 +0.34563664 -0.11894395 P 3.55 H 25.6 G 0.15 U 7 [...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is to hold a symposium titled "Expectations for Climate Change Monitoring using Earth Observation Satellites" on April 15, (Thursday) 2010, at the Hotel Pacific Tokyo. Earth observation satellites have been playing an important role i...
Dynasty of Priestesses For a quarter century, Greek excavation director Nicholas Stampolidis and his dedicated team have been unearthing the untold stories of the people buried some 2,800 years ago in the necropolis of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna on Crete. Until now, the site has perhaps been best k...
Ancient river courses found below Simpson Desert Researchers have uncovered the courses of ancient river systems under the Simpson Desert in Central Australia. Read more
Lecture: In Pursuit of Pulsars, Manchester, United Kingdom Prof. Jocelyn Bell-Burnell DBE (Oxford University) Lecture: an accessible introduction to pulsars (pulsating radio stars), and their amazing properties. Like lighthouses in the sky they may one day be used as navigation beacons for i...
Title: Evidence for accretion in a nearby, young brown dwarf Authors: Ansgar Reiners We report on the discovery of the young, nearby, brown dwarf 2MASS J0041353-562112. The object has a spectral type of M7.5, it shows Li absorption and signatures of accretion, which implies that it still has a disk...
Title: The discovery of a molecular cavity in the Norma near arm associated to H.E.S.S gamma-ray source located in the direction of Westerlund 1 Authors: A. Luna, Y.D. Mayya, L. Carrasco, L. Bronfman We report on the discovery of a molecular cavity in the Norma near arm in the general direction of Wes...
Black Hole May Fuel Galactic Mass Exodus Consequences of galaxy-scale outflows are profound in the early universe, and an international team led by David Alexander at Durham University (UK) provides insight into the process using new observations with the Gemini Near-Infrared Integral Field S...
Backyard astronomers keen to see Jupiter up close will have their chance on Saturday night. The Macarthur Astronomical Society will host an astronomy open night from 6pm at the University of Western Sydney observatory at Campbelltown, for people keen to see the giant planet and its four largest mo...
Orbital elements: 2009 XR2 Earth MOID = 0.1530 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 33.19680 (2000.0) P Q n 0.53907663 Peri. 131.45118 +0.65062327 -0.61025284 a 1.4952107 Node 271.52976 +0.48871375 +0.79202087 e 0.2897836 Incl. 26.88078 +0.58124713 +0.01715829 P 1.83 H 18.9 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong? There's something very odd going on in space - something that shouldn't be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner. Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phe...
