The largest single gathering of meteorites found in Arizona will be on display on Jan. 30 during the Arizona Meteorite Exhibition. If you want to get a glimpse of what the solar system looked like 4.5 billion years ago, Arizona is the place to be. Since 1891 more than 95 separately classified meteorit...
Orbital elements: 2009 BT5 Earth MOID = 0.2525 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 163.89839 (2000.0) P Q n 0.64729659 Peri. 73.27037 -0.86548374 +0.41873199 a 1.3235301 Node 130.55240 -0.46971672 -0.86911051 e 0.1291217 Incl. 21.21541 +0.17408072 -0.26326876 P 1.52 H 20.7 G 0.15 U 2 [u...
Title: Second generation planets Authors: Hagai B. Perets Planets are typically thought to form in protoplanetary disks left over from protostellar disk of their newly formed host star. However, an additional planetary formation route may exist in old evolved binary systems. In such systems st...
Debris from the NOAA 10 satellite that was launched on the 17th September, 1986, is predicted to re-entry the Earths atmosphere on the 14th, January, 2010. TLE Data pre>NOAA 10 DEB 1 32471U 86073E 10012.89761049 .07934515 00000-0 68584-1 9995 2 32471 099.9588 140.2000 0034056 285.3871 077.661...
"Doomsday Clock" moves one minute away from midnight Citing a more "hopeful state of world affairs" in relation to the twin threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock...
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, ... all » Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. The film beg...
Orbital elements: 2007 HB Earth MOID = 0.4488 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 336.28776 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32196141 Peri. 103.74307 -0.91528421 -0.17068394 a 2.1083053 Node 67.46548 -0.04018165 -0.86258029 e 0.3979409 Incl. 23.26714 +0.40079952 -0.47625859 P 3.06 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 3 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2010 AG30 Earth MOID = 0.0065 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 344.53490 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28947825 Peri. 84.62224 -0.98911101 +0.14283225 a 2.2632130 Node 103.58602 -0.14530019 -0.90943015 e 0.6950872 Incl. 2.09144 -0.02339364 -0.39055827 P 3.40 H 27.0 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Orbital elements: 2008 JO24 Earth MOID = 0.3079 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 240.44794 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40804167 Peri. 142.82820 +0.14674692 +0.93296960 a 1.8002509 Node 132.89358 -0.98063360 +0.18078363 e 0.2911327 Incl. 26.65660 -0.12970384 -0.31126355 P 2.42 H 18.7 G 0.15 U 2...
Second smallest exoplanet found to date discovered at Keck Planet hunters using Keck Observatory have detected an extrasolar planet that is only four times the mass of Earth. The planet is the second smallest exoplanet ever discovered and adds to astronomers' growing cadre of low mass planets cal...
Orbital elements: 2010 AE40 Earth MOID = 0.0629 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 4.61154 (2000.0) P Q n 0.38603774 Peri. 155.42688 -0.02653172 -0.94250660 a 1.8680258 Node 294.58698 +0.84584492 +0.15644129 e 0.4536716 Incl. 21.49064 +0.53276865 -0.29530904 P 2.55 H 23.8 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Formation of the Gulf of Corinth rift, Greece A study of the structure and evolution of the Gulf of Corinth rift in central Greece will increase scientific understanding of rifted margin development and the tectonic mechanisms underlying seafloor spreading and deformation of the Earths crust. T...
The Hill sphere is the region of space where an astronomical object's gravity is the dominant force affecting nearby objects. Earth's Hill sphere extends to about 1.5 million kilometres, 0.01 AU or 932,000 miles, from the planet. In more precise terms, the Hill sphere approximates the gravitatio...
Mysteries of the Big Bang and beyond Interview with John Cromwell Mather, co-winner of the Physics Nobel in 2006. John Cromwell Mather, whose vocation is to look at stars and planets through powerful telescopes, himself became a star attraction during the 97th Indian Science Congress held in Thir...
