Snowflake-Shaped Galaxy As part of its Hubble Heritage program, NASA has released an image, taken by a team led by University of Arizona astronomer Rodger Thompson, of a galaxy that resembles a snowflake. Click here to view the image. A bluish-white spiral galaxy hangs delicately in the cold vacuu...
China might explore other planets China might one day explore other planets, Sun Jiadong, chief designer of Chang'e-l, China's first lunar probe, told China Economic Weekly. Read more
The Ancient City of Mapungubwe Mapungubwe hill is 300 m long, broad at one end, tapering at the other. It is only accessible by means of two very steep and narrow paths which twist their way to the summit, and yet 2 000 tons of soil had been artificially transported to the very top by a prehistoric people o...
Meteorite falls in northern Latvia, no one injured No one was injured after a meteorite fell near a small town in northern Latvia on Sunday, local Latvian media reported. According to media reports, the meteorite fell near a residential house on the outskirts of Mazsalaca town in the Valmiera distr...
Orbital elements: 1998 OK1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0393 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 29.97386 (2000.0) P Q n 0.62415382 Peri. 298.44410 +0.64191565 -0.73225159 a 1.3560477 Node 109.76180 +0.76048087 +0.57004484 e 0.4291527 Incl. 13.98847 +0.09804663 +0.37263451 P 1.58 H 19.4 G 0.15...
SES WORLD SKIES' NSS-12 Satellite Arrives At Kourou Launch Base SES WORLD SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announces that its NSS-12 satellite has safely arrived at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, onboard an Antonov cargo plane. The NSS...
Orbital elements: 2010 BH2 Earth MOID = 0.3569 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 341.78859 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24988231 Peri. 46.08275 -0.83759098 -0.37315946 a 2.4963897 Node 108.18983 +0.29700813 -0.92403678 e 0.4959194 Incl. 24.83318 +0.45850575 -0.08311470 P 3.94 H 19.5 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
A magnitude 15.2 supernova, 2010H, was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) on the 16th January, 2010, in the spiral galaxy IC 494 in the constellation Canis Minor. The supernova is located 3.9" west and 0.7" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is un...
ASU Earth and space exploration professor Philip Christensen is working with UA to launch an exploration of asteroids as part of a possible NASA mission. Christensen is working to create a thermal emissions spectrometer that will help in the proposed mission by measuring thermal radiation on a sp...
A Chang Zheng-3C rocket with the Beidou 2G F-2 (Compass) navigation satellite is scheduled to launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre on the 16th January, 2010. China will launch more navigation satellites next year to develop the second-generation Beidou satellite navigation system -...
China announces interceptor test China says it has successfully tested military technology which intercepts missiles in mid-air. A brief report on the state news agency said the test had been defensive and had not been targeted at any country. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/asia-p...
Orbital elements: 2010 BG2 Earth MOID = 0.0533 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 12.25435 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35488004 Peri. 236.74356 +0.86827912 -0.15974374 a 1.9758243 Node 127.57033 +0.17514241 +0.98448104 e 0.8325902 Incl. 36.33763 -0.46412983 +0.07265688 P 2.78 H 19.9 G 0.15 From...
Mitsubishi, IHI to Join $21 Bln Space Solar Project Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and IHI Corp. will join a 2 trillion yen ($21 billion) Japanese project intending to build a giant solar-power generator in space within three decades and beam electricity to earth. [url=http://www.bloomberg.com/ap...
Title: A Small Step on the Long Road to Understanding the R-Stars: CNO Cycling in Candidate R-Star Progenitors Authors: George Angelou, John Lattanzio Recent work has proposed that a merger event between a red-giant and a He white dwarf may be responsible for the production of R-stars (Izz...
Orbital elements: 2010 AG3 Earth MOID = 0.0145 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 339.27458 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61317361 Peri. 29.99508 -0.77248834 -0.63371510 a 1.3721884 Node 110.62299 +0.57360902 -0.72391490 e 0.2810847 Incl. 2.50025 +0.27246003 -0.27267636 P 1.61 H 27.6 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...