The Japanese polar expedition team discovered four meteorites in the Sor Rondane Mountains of Antarctica on Tuesday in a race with U.S. scientists over the number of similar finds on the continent. It is the first discovery of meteorites in the area by Japanese scientists since January 2001. [url=...
Mineralogy and petrology of the Kirin meteorite and its formation and evolution. Research Group of the Composition of the Kirin Meteorite Shower, Kweiyang Institute of Geochemistry, Academia Sinica Optical identification and X-ray powder study, coupled with monomineral microchemical and e...
Gemini's flagship local outreach program, Journey Through the Universe, for 2010 is scheduled for February 25th - March 5th. Journey through the Universe is a national science education initiative that engages entire communities-students, teachers, families, and the public-using educatio...
University of Washington research has developed a formula to examine just what sorts of changes occur over time among complex and integrated structures. A key to understanding what's happening is to think of the relationships as networks. "We've been working on the mathematics of it for som...
A magnitude 15.9 supernova, 2010P, was discovered by S. Mattila and E. Kankare on the 23rd January, 2010, in the galaxy NGC 3690 in the constellation Ursa Major. The supernova is located 6.2" East and 0.3" North from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 1...
Orbital elements: 2010 BZ4 Earth MOID = 0.1169 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 352.19567 (2000.0) P Q n 0.17920174 Peri. 52.50346 -0.85961079 -0.47939185 a 3.1158359 Node 98.21639 +0.39402496 -0.84222901 e 0.6708373 Incl. 10.28927 +0.32529007 -0.24664496 P 5.50 H 22.1 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Select your favourite South African asteroid name The second round of the national Name Our Asteroid competition is already well under way. The top five names from over 100 submissions by young South Africans have already been selected, and the public at large is now invited to vote for their favour...
NASA will launch small research satellites for several universities as part of the agency's Educational Launch of Nanosatellite, or ELaNA, mission. The satellites are manifested as an auxiliary payload on the Taurus XL launch vehicle for NASA's Glory mission, planned for liftoff in late Novemb...
Orbital elements: 2009 YT6 Earth MOID = 0.0978 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 322.59624 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46150765 Peri. 99.63365 -0.92407958 -0.14821653 a 1.6583777 Node 72.49620 -0.03847731 -0.88098452 e 0.4892313 Incl. 21.67830 +0.38025837 -0.44933077 P 2.14 H 20.7 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Title: The Blazhko Effect in Delta Scuti and other Groups of Pulsating Stars Authors: Michel Breger Amplitude and period variations have been detected in almost all types of pulsating stars. Many of these modulations are nearly periodic. In RR Lyrae stars the phenomenon in known as the Blazhko Eff...
Spanish and French researchers have defined the age, location, size and geochemistry of the volcanoes of Gran Canaria during the Holocene, 11,000 years ago, in order to draw up a map of volcanic hazards for the island. The research shows that the area of greatest volcanic activity is one of the most h...
Observing Double Stars with a 1600s Telescope The Huachuca Astronomy Club, in collaboration with Cochise College, will present Dr. Alan Binder as a speaker at their January regular meeting. The topic of his talk will be "Observing Double Stars with a 1600s Telescope." Friday, Jan. 29,...
Scientist dies after mountain fall A scientist from Edinburgh has been killed while climbing on Ben Lui, near Tyndrum, it has emerged. Dr Timothy Garn, 27, a researcher in extragalactic astrophysics at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, fell more than 300ft near the summit. [url=http://news.b...
A possible magnitude 15.8 supernova was discovered on the 23rd January, 2010, in the spiral galaxy UGC 2953 in the constellation Camelopardalis. The supernova is located 3" East and 1" North from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 04 07 47.27, Dec +69° 48' 47.0"
