Comet P/2001 MD7 = 2009 F3 (LINEAR) Comet P/2001 MD7 was recovered by E. Guido, G. Sostero, and P. Camilleri (Mayhill RAS observatory) on the 17th March, 2009. N. Blythe (Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test System) had first announced the discovery of the comet on July 11, 2001. The comet had also b...
Astronomers may have detected smoke signals generated by a group of supernovas that blew up when the universe was only about 1.2 billion years old. If correct, the researchers have detected would be one of the earliest known signs of supernova-produced dust in the universe and the very earliest det...
My goals for the course are to introduce, raise awareness and start a dialogue about the amazingly diverse and versatile Antarctic microbial world - as this is, in essence, a land of the microbes. Microbial life in the sea ice and underlying waters of McMurdo Sound will be the subject of our studies th...
Title: Tracing the Origins of Iguanid Lizards and Boine Snakes of the Pacific Authors: Brice P. Noonan1, and Jack W. Sites Jr. In 1947, when Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki hit ground in the Tuamotu archipelago, 102 days and 4,000 km from its point of origin in South America, he inadvertently provided sup...
An asteroid has been named after Miep Gies, the woman who saved the diary of Anne Frank. The International Astronomical Union announced that asteroid Miepgies orbits between Mars and Jupiter and has an estimated diameter of seven kilometres. [url=http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/asteroi...
The 880 - 2000 metre wide asteroid (24761) Ahau will make a close pass (70.8 lunar distances, 0.1820 AU), travelling at 11.89 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the d...
Royal Astronomical Society honours young astronomer The Royal Astronomical Society has announced the recipients of the Society's medals and awards for 2010. The prizes honour individuals and groups who have made an outstanding contribution to astronomy and geophysics. Dr Elizabeth Stanway o...
A team of scientists returned this month with new and dramatic video and sound recordings of an ongoing volcanic eruption underneath the deceptively calm waters of Rota Island in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Video of billowing ash plumes, molten sulphur droplets, and red lava jetting from a...
Orbital elements: 2010 AJ30 Earth MOID = 0.0457 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 163.69136 (2000.0) P Q n 1.34837557 Peri. 350.60917 +0.41083018 +0.90503217 a 0.8114507 Node 303.57284 -0.82766365 +0.31955194 e 0.3021906 Incl. 7.59769 -0.38234991 +0.28071932 P 0.73 H 22.5 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Orbital elements: 2009 WR52 Earth MOID = 0.0091 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 105.99851 (2000.0) P Q n 0.91417473 Peri. 266.46722 +0.83988576 +0.53711528 a 1.0514370 Node 61.03068 -0.45578011 +0.77607576 e 0.2223308 Incl. 5.12136 -0.29471408 +0.33047480 P 1.08 H 28.0 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
The 160 - 350 metre wide asteroid 2007 UR3 will make a close pass (53.8 lunar distances, 0.1382 AU), travelling at 1.76 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the di...
Orbital elements: 2010 AL2 Earth MOID = 0.0285 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 351.21679 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42447000 Peri. 20.73280 -0.59774253 -0.79181049 a 1.7534957 Node 106.18409 +0.71591381 -0.59764057 e 0.4305151 Incl. 7.50636 +0.36079258 -0.12594403 P 2.32 H 26.5 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2008 RH1 Earth MOID = 0.0702 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 296.22371 (2000.0) P Q n 0.89850835 Peri. 147.30927 -0.74648460 -0.66508605 a 1.0636236 Node 350.91524 +0.57915954 -0.63423567 e 0.1617686 Incl. 7.46912 +0.32762014 -0.39421524 P 1.10 H 22.6 G 0.15 U 2 [u...
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