The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) captured these two images of Jupiter's outermost large moon, Callisto, as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in late February. New Horizons' closest approach distanc...
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (March 22, 1799 - February 17, 1875) was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances. The crater Argelander on the Moon and the asteroid 1551 Argelander are named for him. [url=http://en.wikiped...
Find Location: Palmer, Alaska Find Date: February 25, 2009 Dry Weight: 56 kg Maximum Dimensions: 59 cm x 35 cm x 25 cm Possibly a fine grained gabbro. This rock is more fine grained than local basalt, and lacks significant heavy metal concentrations typical for gabbros. There is in part some simil...
The magnitude 13.0 asteroid (479) Caprera will occult the magnitude 11.7 star TYC 1313-01175-1 in the constellation Orion, at 19:16 UT, 24th January, 2010. The maximum duration of the occultation is 8.4 sec. The event will be visible from SE Asia, China, Russia. Position (2000): RA = 06h06m16.26s...
Orbital elements: 2010 BC Earth MOID = 0.0131 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 338.31618 (2000.0) P Q n 0.36413653 Peri. 60.16224 -0.98929178 +0.03090866 a 1.9421967 Node 121.26716 -0.07467540 -0.94690158 e 0.5720260 Incl. 9.60641 +0.12540077 -0.32003447 P 2.71 H 22.2 G 0.15 U 7 [url...
A century of astronomy as seen through the Amherst College's Bassett Planetarium and Wilder Observatory "Some people come to the Wilder Observatory, and they look at Saturn through this telescope, and they say, 'Well, that's not very impressive.' That's because they're used to seeing phot...
Some scientists want to send signals into space in search of aliens but others warn we may get more than we bargained for. At an astrobiology conference in Texas in April, SETI enthusiasts will discuss new methods of discovering extraterrestrial life, including sending out interstellar messages...
Orbital elements: 2010 BT3 Earth MOID = 0.2164 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 0.08141 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23889604 Peri. 156.26113 -0.26493766 -0.94527767 a 2.5723501 Node 308.53998 +0.84113175 -0.12999788 e 0.5395102 Incl. 14.08992 +0.47149275 -0.29925020 P 4.13 H 21.7 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
In January 2001, Susan Taylor, a research scientist at the Army Corps of Engineer’s Cold Regions Research Laboratory in Hanover, visited Frost Pond in Dublin to investigate a mysterious hole in the ice. Local residents asked her to come because her work on snowpack research includes going to the So...
The British Museum will stage a pioneering exhibition on the history of the Hajj - the Muslim pilgrimage - bringing many never-before-seen treasures to the Western world from the holiest sites in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Malaysia and Timbuktu. Organising the show, which is due to run from 26 January to...
Orbital elements: 2010 BL2 Earth MOID = 0.4551 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 15.26560 (2000.0) P Q n 0.19836601 Peri. 205.68077 +0.19850643 +0.43135897 a 2.9117755 Node 89.53969 -0.67663440 +0.70993322 e 0.8193542 Incl. 61.65433 -0.70905648 -0.55670841 P 4.97 H 16.0 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Twilight meteor reported Monday in Maryland The Tuesday morning mail contained the following report from a reader in Reisterstown, Md. He and his wife spotted a bright meteor to their south after sunset on Monday evening. The crescent moon and planet Jupiter were visible in the southwest. [url=ht...
Amguid is a meteorite crater in Algeria. It is 450 m in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 100,000 years and is probably Pleistocene. Read more
