The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, or LPL, is kicking off its 50th anniversary with this celebration of Arizona meteorite finders, classifiers, researchers and collections. The event will feature exhibits of Arizona meteorites and informative displays. [url=http://uanews.org/node/292...
Title: Superoutbursts of the SU UMa-type dwarf nova CP Draconis Authors: Jeremy Shears, David Boyd, Denis Buczynski, Brian Martin, David Messier, Ian Miller, Arto Oksanen, Jochen Pietz, David Skillman, Bart Staels, Tonny Vanmunster Analysis of observations of the SU UMa-type dwarf nova, CP Dr...
Title: TYC 2675-663-1: A newly discovered W UMa system in an active state Authors: M. D. Caballero-Garcia (1), G. Torres (2), I. Ribas (3), D. Risquez (4), B. Montesinos (5), J. M. Mas-Hesse (5) ((1) IoA, Cambridge, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) IEEC, Barcelona (4) Leiden O...
Title: EC 11481-2303 - A Peculiar Subdwarf OB Star Revisited Authors: T. Rauch (1), K. Werner (1), J. W. Kruk (2) ((1) Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany, (2) Department of Physics and Astronomy,...
Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes High-energy bursts of gamma rays typically occur far out in space, perhaps near black holes or other high-energy cosmic phenomena. So imagine scientists' surprise in the mid-1990s when they found these powerful gamma ray flashes happenin...
Eutelsat Communications has confirmed a technical anomaly with its W2 satellite at 16 degrees East on Wednesday evening from where some 400 channels are delivered. Read more
There is no mystery about where the strangely fused and shining block of silicon came from - it came from space. The real mystery, and one Hawke's Bay astronomer Gary Sparks is seeking to solve, is what it came from. When Mr Sparks first set eyes on the once-molten lump of space debris he initially saw it...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that the launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 14 (H-IIA F14) with the super high-speed Internet satellite "KIZUNA" (Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration...
Orbital elements: 2005 OU2 Earth MOID = 0.1239 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 222.03599 (2000.0) P Q n 0.71820962 Peri. 310.15854 +0.01647139 -0.80842368 a 1.2349098 Node 127.38918 +0.98137779 +0.12570437 e 0.3735615 Incl. 47.77634 -0.19138004 +0.57502136 P 1.37 H 19.0 G 0.15 U 2...
Black Hole Hunters Set New Distance Record Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have detected, in another galaxy, a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known. With a mass above fifteen times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive stellar-mass...
Orbital elements: 2009 EN2 Earth MOID = 0.1393 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 109.99831 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46122875 Peri. 138.08230 +0.34809967 +0.83650487 a 1.6590462 Node 144.87117 -0.92794687 +0.24332373 e 0.5252921 Incl. 47.34458 +0.13319622 -0.49097166 P 2.14 H 18.4 G 0.15 U 3 [...
John Blue Mountain Greenfire had just poured a cup of coffee and was outside enjoying the evening air around 8 p.m. Wednesday when he saw what he thought was an airplane on fire, heading toward Belgrade. But while no fiery jetliner ever touched down at Gallatin Field airport, a white fireball, a type o...
It was June 18, 1960 when a man walked into the Yellowknife RCMP detachment with a story about something coming out of the sky and crashing into Clan Lake. The investigation that followed involved the RCMP and the military, but no one was able to find an object despite indications that something had cr...
Orbital elements: 2010 AD3 Earth MOID = 0.1079 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 355.33437 (2000.0) P Q n 0.19426125 Peri. 209.70899 -0.60693743 -0.79096511 a 2.9526498 Node 277.76784 +0.74371440 -0.53089155 e 0.6323590 Incl. 4.48422 +0.28020679 -0.30418475 P 5.07 H 23.9 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
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