China’s future HJ-1 and HJ-1C reconnaissance satellites are to be launched in the second half of 2007.
The satellite will provide information on environmental changes and natural disasters.
China’s Environmental and Disaster Monitoring Satellite System (EDMSS) will provide all-weat...
The American House Science Committee today favourably reported out four bills related to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
By voice votes, the Committee passed H.R. 50, National Oceanic and Atmosphe...
West Virginia Student Discovers New Pulsar A West Virginia high-school student has discovered a new pulsar, using data from the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Shay Bloxton, 15, a participant in a project in which students analyse data from the radio telescope, spotted evidence o...
Orbital elements: 2010 BC3 Earth MOID = 0.1198 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 353.75263 (2000.0) P Q n 0.16354962 Peri. 153.77208 -0.89624302 -0.44356332 a 3.3115885 Node 359.89610 +0.39077028 -0.78940934 e 0.6665805 Incl. 4.81759 +0.20987385 -0.42436360 P 6.03 H 20.1 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Lake Atitlán, located in the Department of Sololá, has one of the most beautiful landscapes found anywhere in Guatemala. Its beauty has been compared with Switzerland's lakes. Along the margins of the lake, there are three imposing volcanos: Atitlán, Tolimán and San Pedro. The lake is located at 1...
Next Giant Leap, a space exploration company competing for the Google Lunar X Prize has officially announced the addition of PerspectX to their team. PerspectX specialises in advanced visualisation, ranging from storyboarding, to Industrial pre-visualisation, digital effects, animation,...
An intresting new website:
"Radio Astronomy is an art and science project which broadcasts sounds intercepted from space live on the internet and on the airwaves.
The project is a collaboration between r a d i o q u a l i a, and radio telescopes located throughout the world. To...
The last universal ancestor (LUA), also called the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), or the cenancestor, is the most recent organism from which all organisms now living on Earth descend. Read more
The 220 - 480 metre wide asteroid 2003 BH will make a close pass (35.4 lunar distances, 0.0910 AU), travelling at 11.91 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...
Tropical Storm Magda (08S) is forecast to make landfall in Australia probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 60% within 12 hours Kuri Bay (15.6 S, 124.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 55% within 12 hours
Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway networks designed by people, despite having no central control over what they build. The finding was made by an international team analysing networks created by the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and th...
The 290 - 640 metre wide asteroid 2008 XM will make a close pass (30.8 lunar distances, 0.0791 AU), travelling at 34.03 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...