The 2010 Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting, or RAS NAM, will be hosted by the University of Glasgow at the main campus in Glasgow's West End. This meeting also incorporates both UK Solar Physics (UKSP) and Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial (MIST) meetings. 20...
Crater named after Shah Rukh Khan The International Lunar Geographic Society informed that a lunar crater in the moon's Sea of Tranquillity has been named after Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan. The S R Khan Crater is the largest of the main Arago crater's 4 satellite craters. [url=http://timesofind...
Title: ACCESS: Enabling an Improved Flux Scale for Astrophysics Authors: Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Stephan R. McCandliss, David J. Sahnow, Robert H. Barkhouser, W. Van Dixon, Paul D. Feldman, H. Warren Moos, Joseph Orndorff, Russell Pelton, Adam G. Riess, Bernard J. Rauscher, Ran...
British visual artist, Marty St James, is to create new artworks during February 2010 in Antarctica. Marty St James a professor of Fine art in the School Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire was invited by the Cultural Projects for National Antarctic Affairs Argentine Chancellery to c...
Orbital elements: 2009 UN3 Earth MOID = 0.1807 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 353.83213 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29159816 Peri. 325.57442 -0.48485175 -0.81120979 a 2.2522306 Node 149.15315 +0.87448909 -0.44380338 e 0.5080242 Incl. 39.60792 -0.01369703 +0.38075878 P 3.38 H 17.6 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Cosmic Quandaries with Dr. Neil deGrasse TysonClick to Play | View Details An out of this world event, Cosmic Quandaries, held at The Palladium in St. Petersburg at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26th, 2009, drew in an audience of nearly 800. With a one in a million chance of meeting one of only 6,000 astrop...
Scientists in three locations on the globe are locked in a multi-billion-dollar race to cross the boundaries of knowledge in particle physics. Their quest: find the secrets of dark matter and the "God particle" - a sub-atomic particle that is fundamental for understanding the nature o...
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Erriapus, also Saturn XXVIII, is a prograde irregular satellite of Saturn. Read more Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute This image of Erriapus was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on the 4th February, 2010. The image wa...
Iran announced Wednesday it has successfully launched a 10-foot-long research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into space. The launch of the Kavoshgar-3, which means Explorer-3 in Farsi, was announced by Defence Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as part of Iran's ambitious space program...
As the Beijing Olympics draw near, archaeologists are reporting the discovery of the long-lost chariot race track at the Greek birthplace of the games. German researchers claim to have identified the hippodrome at Olympia, in Western Greece, some 1,600 years after the historic sports venue disa...
Title: Discovery and Characterization of a Faint Stellar Companion to the A3V Star Zeta Virginis Authors: Sasha Hinkley (1,2), Ben R. Oppenheimer (3), Douglas Brenner (3), Neil Zimmerman (3,4), Lewis C Roberts Jr. (5), Ian R. Parry (6), Remi Soummer (7), Anand Sivaramakrishnan (3,8,9), Michal S...
A magnitude 16.6 supernova, 2010X, was discovered by D. Rich on the 7th February, 2010, in the galaxy NGC 1573A in the constellation Camelopardalis. The supernova is located 4.4" East and 6" North from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 04 48 27.90, De...
A magnitude 16.6 supernova, 2010W, was discovered by Berto Monard (South Africa) on the 7th February, 2010, in galaxy ESO 320- G 035 in the constellation Centaurus. The supernova is located 18" East and 22" North from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): R...
Orbital elements: 2010 CL Earth MOID = 0.0451 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 1.86164 (2000.0) P Q n 0.50265739 Peri. 136.16371 -0.06190690 -0.97413800 a 1.5665875 Node 316.00026 +0.80770115 +0.07900842 e 0.3882659 Incl. 18.22976 +0.58633300 -0.21169038 P 1.96 H 25.0 G 0.15 U 7 [url...
