Title: High Precision Dynamical Masses of Very Low Mass Binaries Authors: Q.M. Konopacky, A.M. Ghez, T.S. Barman, E.L. Rice, J.I. Bailey III, R.J. White, I.S. McLean, G. Duchene We present the results of a 3 year monitoring program of a sample of very low mass (VLM) field binaries using both astrome...
A geochronologist believes a "meteor" that fell from the sky and landed in Shepparton on Tuesday morning was more likely human excrement from an aeroplane. As reported in Wednesday's News, a Johnson St resident had witnessed an object hit the ground around 25 m from her front door. [url=...
Most people wouldn't want to live within a stone's throw of a volcano. But the residents of Stockton-on-Tees in the northeastern U.K. may soon rely on their friendly neighbourhood "peak" for green power. With construction due to start in late 2010, a proposed tower of power would produc...
A magnitude 13.5 supernova, 2007gr, was discovered on the 15th August, 2007, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, in the spiral galaxy NGC 1058...
Sierra College Meteor Camera The system is an "All Sky" video camera which has a 180 deg. field of view. There is a custom signal processor and memory system which buffers a few seconds of video. The processor compares each captured frame to the previous, and when it detects an event (meteo...
Ancient Mayans made pyramids to make music for rain god Researchers have discovered that many pyramids in Mexico were created by the ancient Mayans to create "raindrop" music to communicate with their rain god. Take for example, Mexico's El Castillo pyramid in Chichen Itza. As visitor...
Hours ahead of Apple's top secret product launch of what's believed to be its revolutionary tablet computer, a publishing boss in America has spilled the beans about the product. In an interview on American business network CNBC, the chairman of publishing giant McGraw-Hill has let slip a handful...
Satellite reflecting Northern Lights? A strange jellyfish-shaped object spotted hanging in the sky over Norway, may have been caused by light from the aurora being bounced off a space satellite, experts say. If proven it will be the first known case of a satellite reflecting the Northern Lights. T...
Two girls from Victoria College, Belfast, have recovered a unique asteroid that is one of a very rare class of companions to the planet Mars. Christina Larkin and Catherine O'Prey remotely controlled the 2-metre Faulkes Telescope North on the island of Maui, Hawaii, during a week's work experienc...
Orbital elements: 2010 AL Earth MOID = 0.0977 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 346.53551 (2000.0) P Q n 0.41039431 Peri. 33.44845 -0.80245123 -0.57594321 a 1.7933642 Node 110.61574 +0.50438165 -0.79443548 e 0.4112157 Incl. 9.59951 +0.31885918 -0.19277369 P 2.40 H 22.2 G 0.15 U 8 [url...
Have you ever wondered how 18th- and 19th-century scientists explained the universe? The Royal Observatory, Greenwich have recently published a new online section called Popular Astronomy, which reveals through their collections how genteel ladies, gentlemen and even the general public wer...
Title: A Wolf-Rayet/black-hole X-ray binary candidate in NGC 300
Authors: S. Carpano, A.M.T. Pollock, J. Wilms, M. Ehle, M. Schirmer
Wolf Rayet/black hole binaries are believed to exist as a later evolutionary product of high-mass X-ray binaries. Hundreds of such binari...
VLT Enables Most Accurate Distance Measurement to Spiral Galaxy NGC 300Cepheid pulsating stars have been used as distance indicators since the early discovery of Henrietta Leavitt almost a hundred years ago. From her photographic data regarding one of the Milky Way's neigh...
Orbital elements: 2010 BU2 Earth MOID = 0.0142 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 351.87124 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26404035 Peri. 12.87082 -0.72708979 -0.68499190 a 2.4063337 Node 123.79596 +0.62487136 -0.68810542 e 0.5861152 Incl. 3.18104 +0.28438745 -0.23936796 P 3.73 H 24.8 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
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