At around 6pm on January 3, South Wales Police received a call from a member of the public in Pontyclun reporting a large ball of fire in the sky. Officers contacted the RAF who confirmed there has been meteorite activity at the time of the call from the member of the public. Meteor showers are quite comm...
The Darwin Awards team is proud to announce the late, the great, the 2009 Darwin Award Winners! Named in honour of Charles Darwin, father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it. This award is generally bestowed posthumously. [...
Title: GTC Osiris spectroscopic identification of a faint L subdwarf in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Authors: N. Lodieu (1,2), M. R. Zapatero Osorio (3), E. L. Martin (3), E. Solano (3), M. Aberaturi (3) ((1) IAC, Tenerife, Spain (2) University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, (3) Centro de Astr...
A mysterious, glowing hot object fell from the sky and landed on the beach in Ocean City last week, but it remains uncertain this week just what it is and from where it came. Early last Tuesday morning, an Ocean City cab driver was walking down the Boardwalk in the area of 22nd Street when he saw a bright gl...
Apart from being one of the worlds chief tin-producing centres, the island of Bangka Belitung, located off the eastern coast of Sumatra, has also cemented a reputation overseas for its satam gemstone handicrafts, signature jewellery not found elsewhere. The word satam comes from the Chinese sa m...
Orbital elements: 2007 FL1 Earth MOID = 0.1569 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 263.30657 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27301665 Peri. 172.21268 -0.41379995 +0.78768397 a 2.3532964 Node 72.34676 -0.85893675 -0.17167735 e 0.5041341 Incl. 28.61882 -0.30165751 -0.59167631 P 3.61 H 18.5 G 0.15 U [u...
A magnitude 15.8 supernova, 2010A, was discovered by T. Puckett, L. Cox and J. Newton, on the 4th January, 2010, in the spiral galaxy UGC 2019 (MCG+00-07-039) in the constellation Cetus. The supernova is located 2.4" East and 6.9" North from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is un...
Orbital elements: 2009 YG PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0154 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 347.08863 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30204134 Peri. 65.26001 -0.89936408 +0.43555425 a 2.2000124 Node 140.53043 -0.41957638 -0.83549198 e 0.7073452 Incl. 3.41853 -0.12288168 -0.33503082 P 3.26 H 18.2 G 0.15 U 9...
Title: Discovery of a red giant with solar-like oscillations in an eclipsing binary system from Kepler space-based photometry Authors: S. Hekker, J. Debosscher, D. Huber, M.G. Hidas, J. De Ridder, C. Aerts, D. Stello, T.R. Bedding, R.L. Gilliland, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, T.M. Brown, H. Kjel...
Title: New candidate Planetary Nebulae in the IPHAS survey: the case of PNe with ISM interaction Authors: Laurence Sabin, Albert A. Zijlstra, Christopher Wareing, Romano L.M. Corradi, Antonio Mampaso, Kerttu Viironen, Nicholas J. Wright, Quentin A. Parker We present the results of the search f...
Title: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-Rich Star Authors: Edward W. Dunham (Lowell Observatory) William J. Borucki (NASA Ames Research Centre) David G. Koch (NASA Ames Research Centre) Natalie M. Batalha (San Jose State University) Lars A. Buchhave (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for A...
Title: Compact Stellar Systems around NGC 1399 Authors: P. Firth, M.J. Drinkwater, E.A. Evstigneeva, M.D. Gregg, A. Karick, J.B. Jones, S. Phillipps We have obtained spectroscopic redshifts of colour-selected point sources in four wide area VLT-FLAMES fields around the Fornax Cluster giant e...
The PARASOL Satellite Moving Off the A-Train's Track After nearly 5 years of concurrent operations with the Afternoon Constellation, known as the "A-Train," the PARASOL satellite is going on another orbit "track." The A-Train includes a number of NASA satellites that orb...
