AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. (AVIC/ACAE) Tuesday started building a research and development centre to develop engines for domestic-made jumbo jets in Shanghai. The centre is responsible for developing home-made engines for the 150-seat C919 and a 250-seat model. The centre in Minhang...
The 710 - 1600 metre wide asteroid 2000 YH66 will make a close pass (69.5 Lunar Distances, 0.1786 AU), travelling at 28.14 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance...
Orbital elements: 2009 WQ52 Earth MOID = 0.0075 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 1.45157 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23975839 Peri. 49.30311 -0.34812579 -0.93335435 a 2.5661784 Node 61.27258 +0.82718972 -0.34976329 e 0.6599724 Incl. 5.72728 +0.44109591 -0.08071742 P 4.11 H 28.1 G 0.15 U 6 [url=...
In the Grilandus Inventum, a beautifully-preserved handwritten Italian book from 1506-07 currently on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, there is a figure of a man surrounded by zodiacal signs. In his left hand, he holds an armillary sphere, a celestial sphere with the Earth at the cente...
A small asteroid, perhaps 3 to 6 meters in diameter - the size of a room or house - came within 88,000 km of Earth late on Friday, September 27 2003. Less than a quarter of the distance to the Moon, this is the closest well-documented Earth encounter of an asteroid that has not struck our atmosphere. Known...
Debre Damo is the name of a flat-topped mountain, or amba, and a 6th century monastery in northern Ethiopia. The mountain is steeply rising plateau of trapezoidal shape, about 1000 by 400 meters in dimension, having a latitude and longitude of 14°22'21"N, 39°17'24"E, and an elevation...
Using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, astronomers at UCLA have found dusty evidence for the formation of young, rocky planets around a star some 500 light years distant. But these potential extrasolar worlds are alien in an even more intriguing way In the aftermath of collisions between plane...
Leading physicists attempt to answer the question: "What are black holes made of?" Those questioned include Professors Andrew Strominger, Michio Kaku, Lawrence Krauss, Max Tegmark, Ramesh Narayan and Douglas Leonard. Horizon: Who is afraid of a big black hole was on BBC Two at 21:00 B...
Amateur astronomer looking for observing site in western Chatham County[url=http://www.chathamjournal.com/weekly/opinion/chatlist/astronomer-seeks-o...
Orbital elements: 2009 YS6 Earth MOID = 0.4061 AU Epoch 2009 Dec. 15.0 TT = JDT 2455180.5 MPC M 324.92016 (2000.0) P Q n 0.08085230 Peri. 309.21682 +0.83999334 -0.12433374 a 5.2967295 Node 295.77020 -0.09133677 -0.99190288 e 0.7605608 Incl. 144.09178 -0.53485399 -0.02588053 P 12.2 H 14.3 G 0.15 F...
"Galileo's Legacy" by Dr Martin Hendry, Tuesday January 12th, 7pm, CTO Cromwell Tower Observatory, Old Aberdeen. In this lecture, as a brief "retrospective" on the International Year of Astronomy 2009, Martin will explore Galileo Galilei's remarkable discoveries - a...
Winter Walk Event Date 14 January 10am - 1pm Plymbridge and the Upper Plym(in Devon) Moorland walk with the warden. See the Bronze Age archaeology and enjoy the granite landscape. Booking Booking Essential 01752 341377 Pricing Adult £5 Child £2.50 [url=http://www.nationaltrust.org....
A possible supernova in the galaxy ESO121-26 Date of Discovery: 7th December, 2009 Brightness: ~17.3 Mag Position(2000): RA = 06h21m44.86s, Dec = 59 ° 44' 26"
