Japanese coast guard officials said Sunday they believe an underwater volcanic eruption has caused a 3,300-foot high column of steam to rise from the Pacific Ocean near Iwo Jima.
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Asteroid 2000 ET141 By day, he's a diesel mechanic and home inspector. But by night, Robert Reeves has his head in the heavens. Now he can search for a heavenly body with his name on it. Reeves, a San Antonio native who has been a passionate astrophotographer since 1960 and has published three books and...
Asteroid (50687) 2000 EC117 has been officially designated Asteroid (50687) Paultemple. Paul Temple is a Senior Pastor in Deming, New Mexico. He photometrically studies variable stars and minor planets and carries out spectroscopy with his own instruments. [url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/...
The 180 - 390 metre wide asteroid 2002 CY58 will make a close pass (46.7 Lunar Distances, 0.1199 AU), travelling at 8.88 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th September, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dist...
Orbital elements: 2009 DE47 Earth MOID = 0.1428 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 340.68299 (2000.0) P Q n 0.85938884 Peri. 41.80023 +0.33441657 -0.92679782 a 1.0956611 Node 29.88328 +0.74787410 +0.15062792 e 0.2756517 Incl. 20.06206 +0.57345434 +0.34403057 P 1.15 H 18.7 G 0.15 U 3 [u...
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Title: Stability of Irregular Satellites of Giant Planets in the Solar System Authors: Yue Shen (1), Scott Tremaine (2) ((1) Princeton, (2) IAS) We conduct a systematic survey of the regions in which distant satellites can orbit stably around the four giant planets in the Solar system, using orbit...
The Crewkerne and District Astronomical Society will be hosting a "sky at night" experience on Saturday (Feb 13). The society and the Astronomy Experience will be holding an Astronomy Open Day at Holy Trinity Church Hall in Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 10am to 4pm. [url=http://www.cha...
A possible magnitude 16.4 supernova was discovered on the 9th February, 2010, in the spiral galaxy NGC692 in the constellation Phoenix. The supernova is located 11" East and 7" South from the center of the galaxy. The galaxy hosted supernova 2007st Position (2000): RA 01 48 43.21, Dec -4...
Orbital elements: 2010 CJ1 Earth MOID = 0.0173 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 11.15686 (2000.0) P Q n 0.50569128 Peri. 284.74735 +0.45318858 -0.89007817 a 1.5603154 Node 138.19300 +0.84343134 +0.41043427 e 0.4737838 Incl. 4.19765 +0.28851981 +0.19825376 P 1.95 H 24.1 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Young galaxies gorge on gas Scientists find explanation for higher star formation rate in young galaxies Stars form from giant gas clouds in galaxies - the star formation rate however has changed over cosmic timescales. In the young universe many more stars were born. Scientists from the Max Planc...
Title: SDSS J1254+0846: A Binary Quasar Caught in the Act of Merging Authors: Paul J. Green (1), Adam D. Myers (2), Wayne A. Barkhouse (3), John S. Mulchaey (4), Vardha N. Bennert (5), Thomas J. Cox (1,3), Thomas L. Aldcroft (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, (2) University of Il...
Orbital elements: 2010 AE Earth MOID = 0.1422 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 309.53516 (2000.0) P Q n 0.54797157 Peri. 271.14692 -0.86602403 +0.43376860 a 1.4789859 Node 294.60418 -0.27526687 -0.82883619 e 0.3756556 Incl. 15.87416 -0.41740929 -0.35337710 P 1.80 H 19.3 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Title: Does GD 356 have a Terrestrial Planetary Companion? Authors: Dayal T. Wickramasinghe, Jay Farihi, Christopher A. Tout, Lilia Ferrario, Richard J. Stancliffe GD 356 is unique among magnetic white dwarfs because it shows Zeeman-split Balmer lines in pure emission. The lines originate fro...
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