HATNet is a network of six small (11cm diameter), wide-field (8x8deg), fully-automated "HAT" telescopes. The scientific goal of the project is to detect and characterize extrasolar planets (exoplanets; those outside the Solar System), and also to find and follow bright variable st...
Korea's first Icebreaker in NZ, then to Antarctica The Araon, a state of the art icebreaker and the first ever domestically produced in Korea, will provide additional support for Korea's expanding polar research activities which are led by the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI). [url=http:...
100 years ago the Great January Comet was accidentally discovered just before dawn on January 12th, 1910, by South African diamond miners. The long period comet passed perihelion on 17 January, 1910. The Great January Comet of 1910, formally designated C/1910 A1 and often referred to as the Daylig...
Neutrino data to flow in 2010 Physicists may see data as soon as late summer from the prototype for a $278 million science experiment in northern Minnesota that is being designed to find clues to some fundamental mysteries of the universe, including dark matter. But it could take years before the nat...
Orbital elements: 2010 AJ Earth MOID = 0.1524 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 13.28396 (2000.0) P Q n 0.17916890 Peri. 175.75293 +0.64933401 -0.76026375 a 3.1162165 Node 233.75440 +0.69704908 +0.60500523 e 0.6335368 Incl. 1.35626 +0.30411828 +0.23657496 P 5.50 H 20.0 G 0.15 U 9 [url...
Orbital elements: 2010 AR1 Earth MOID = 0.0020 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 14.51674 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49584923 Peri. 200.29445 +0.36703030 -0.93017196 a 1.5808947 Node 228.17396 +0.85497938 +0.34084884 e 0.3973451 Incl. 0.63818 +0.36646830 +0.13638986 P 1.99 H 25.9 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
An Australian World War II hospital ship, the Centaur, has been seen for the first time since it sank more than 60 years ago with a loss of 268 lives. Images of the wreck, more than 2km below the sea, were captured by a remote-controlled underwater camera. The ship's location was discovered last month f...
Taking place next weekend in St. Louis, this Regency/Superior auction is sure to be of interest to anyone who lived through the early days of space travel and exploration. In the auction are hundreds of nostalgic, space-related artifacts, both from the former Soviet Union/Russia and the United St...
Nearly 40 years after the Apollo astronauts first brought samples of the Moon to Earth for study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis are leading an effort to return to the Moon for samples that could unlock secrets of the early Solar System. Known as MoonRise, the proposed Moon miss...
Orbital elements: 2010 AJ3 Earth MOID = 0.0118 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 34.90277 (2000.0) P Q n 0.72417514 Peri. 291.33728 +0.71192061 -0.64662296 a 1.2281186 Node 110.07576 +0.70221052 +0.65084321 e 0.3084252 Incl. 16.95800 +0.00833303 +0.39784652 P 1.36 H 24.3 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Title: Nature of W51e2 -- Massive Cores at Different Phases of Star Formation Authors: Hui Shi, Jun-Hui Zhao, J.L. Han We present high-resolution continuum images of the W51e2 complex processed from archival data of the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 0.85 and 1.3 mm and the Very Large Array (VLA) at 7...
Title: Spirals, Bridges, and Tails: A GALEX UV Atlas of Interacting Galaxies Authors: Beverly J. Smith (1), Mark L. Giroux (1), Curtis Struck (2), Mark Han**** (3), Sabrina Hurlock (1) ((1) East Tennessee State University, (2) Iowa State University, University of California Riverside (3)) We ha...
Title: A quasar companion to the puzzling quasar SDSS J0927+2943 Authors: R. Decarli, R. Falomo, A. Treves, M. Barattini We report the discovery of a quasar close to SDSS J0927+2943 (z = 0.713), which is a massive binary / recoiling black hole candidate. The companion quasar is at a projected distan...
Orbital elements: 2010 AH3 Earth MOID = 0.0054 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 14.52277 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46827925 Peri. 326.06505 +0.39517928 -0.91797960 a 1.6423515 Node 100.63747 +0.85026927 +0.35158082 e 0.4168746 Incl. 1.97459 +0.34767155 +0.18358751 P 2.10 H 26.2 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
