Title: SN 2009kf : a UV bright type IIP supernova discovered with Pan-STARRS 1 and GALEX Authors: M.T. Botticella (Queen's University Belfast), C. Trundle, A. Pastorello, S. Rodney, A. Rest, S. Gezari, S. J. Smartt, G. Narayan, M.E. Huber, J. L. Tonry, D. Young, K. Smith, F. Bresolin, S. Valenti, R....
Asteroid (6019) 1991 RO6 at magnitude 16.2 will occult the magnitude 6.5 star HD 104078 in the constellation Virgo, at 04:58 UT, 1st February, 2010. The 3.8 second event is visible from Europe, Africa, Brazil and Argentina. Position(2000): RA 11 59 09.3646, Dec -10 28 32.921
Orbital elements: 2010 BG5 Earth MOID = 0.0159 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 325.70926 (2000.0) P Q n 0.55206984 Peri. 216.62976 -0.99441289 -0.07429055 a 1.4716573 Node 318.91184 +0.10109642 -0.87465638 e 0.3871776 Incl. 6.55207 -0.03037294 -0.47901684 P 1.79 H 23.8 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Meroë is the name of an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site are a group of villages called Bagrawiyah. This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centurie...
Kerma (now known as Doukki Gel - a Nubian term which can be roughly translated as "red mound") was the capital city of the Kingdom of Kerma, in present day Egypt and Sudan, an archaeological site as old as 5,000 years. It became a real Nubian state during the 3rd millennium BC. Kerma was about...
"X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight" by Dennis R. Jenkins The X-15 was the ultimate "X" vehicle. Built in the 1950s, she became the fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft of its time. During 199 flights from 1959 through 1968, she collected data about hypersonic fl...
Title: The discovery of a very cool binary system Authors: Ben Burningham, S. K. Leggett, P.W. Lucas, D.J. Pinfield, R.L. Smart, A.C. Day-Jones, H.R.A. Jones, D.Murray, E. Nickson, M. Tamura, Z. Zhang, N. Lodieu, C.G. Tinney, M. R. Zapatero Osorio We report the discovery of a very cool d/sdL7+T7.5...
A Russian Proton M-Briz M rocket is scheduled to launch a Raduga 1M-2 geosynchronous military communications satellite, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on the 28th January, 2010.
Parys Mountain - in the Welsh language Mynydd Parys - is located south of the town of Amlwch in north east Anglesey, Wales. It is the site of a large copper mine that was extensively exploited in the late 18th century. The mountain was mined for copper ore in the early Bronze Age, as shown by sub-surface d...
During our cold January nights, the transparent and crystal clear windows to our Wyoming skies may last up to 15 hours, so our viewing is spectacular. The Milky Way runs from the southeast horizon, through the zenith directly overhead to the northwest. Parallel to the Milky Way are the constellatio...
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge (born September 24, 1925; died January 25, 2010) was a English physics professor in the University of California, San Diego. He was married to Margaret Burbidge. He received his PhD from London in 1951. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Burbidge]Source[...
NASA is making sound clips available for news producers to download from the agency's Web site. The NASA Audio File page has sound clips with NASA scientists, researchers, astronauts, and officials supporting timely news releases about everything from the latest discoveries in space to climate...
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