The 300 - 680 metre wide asteroid 2003 CR1 will make a close pass (68.7 lunar distances, 0.1765 AU), travelling at 9.85 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...
Astronomy's Serendipitous Side You've heard the saying "thank your lucky stars." Well, in the January 1st issue of Science, astronomer Kenneth Lang of Tufts University says it's not the stars that are lucky, but the folks who study them. Because some of the biggest discoveries about ou...
Orbital elements: 2010 AF Earth MOID = 0.0244 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 82.47057 (2000.0) P Q n 1.04436310 Peri. 242.91868 +0.90685934 +0.16738570 a 0.9621328 Node 105.29674 -0.06345282 +0.96150936 e 0.2980128 Incl. 23.63894 -0.41662918 +0.21790314 P 0.94 H 24.9 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
People in the public eye are often drawn to promoting theories, therapies and campaigns that make no scientific sense. Sense About Science keeps a case file of examples of celebrity statements sent in by scientists and members of the public. Every year we review celebrities' dodgy science claims -...
Orbital elements: 2009 WW7 Earth MOID = 0.0018 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 96.20990 (2000.0) P Q n 0.86535498 Peri. 273.70581 +0.87284470 +0.48659168 a 1.0906193 Node 57.18085 -0.42842185 +0.80040254 e 0.2617442 Incl. 2.52494 -0.23365967 +0.35012044 P 1.14 H 28.9 G 0.15 U 7 [url...
Orbital elements: 2008 EB32 Earth MOID = 0.1609 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 205.82477 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35745891 Peri. 47.90967 -0.63818917 +0.76986922 a 1.9663099 Node 182.44377 -0.73113103 -0.60768674 e 0.4140374 Incl. 5.37853 -0.24116799 -0.19498259 P 2.76 H 19.6 G 0.15 U 2 [u...
Astronomers have detected a massive black hole but can find no traces of the surrounding galaxy that should be feeding it.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team examined 20 quasars and found that quasar ...
This week is a bit of a coming out party for us here at Astrosphere. Several of our team are attending the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Washington DC. Were here to share science; both communicating our own results with our peers and helping you see into the world of astronomy through blogs...
The 340 - 760 metre wide asteroid 2003 WR21 will make a close pass (49.0 lunar distances, 0.1259 AU), travelling at 11.64 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dista...
The story in last week's Citizen about Upwell man Jimmy Greenwood spotting a meteorite meteor has sparked reportings of other sightings from readers. Margaret and Derrick Batterbee of Festival Close, Manea said they saw three bright lights go past their house on the evening of Saturday, December...
A former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lew Allen Jr., passed away Monday night, Jan. 4, at the age of 84, in Potomac Falls, Va. He led the laboratory from 1982 till 1990, during a period that included the launches of the Galileo mission to Jupiter, Magellan to Venus and the Infrared Ast...
UCF Winter Workshop 2010: Exoplanets for Planetary Scientists A cross-disciplinary scientific workshop for exoplanetary researchers and students from both the stellar and planetary communities, this workshop features introductory reviews, regular oral and poster sessions with the lates...
The 680 - 1500 metre wide asteroid (217807) 2000 XK44 will make a close pass (28.8 Lunar Distances, 0.0739 AU), travelling at 7.48 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th November, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the d...
China's space program is poised to surge ahead at a brisk pace in 2010. In fact, over the next 12 months, China's activities in space may be such that when all is said and done, 2010 could well rank as one of China's top years thus far in terms of the total number and variety of missions launched. [url=http...
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