Title: MN112: a new Galactic candidate Luminous Blue Variable Authors: V.V.Gvaramadze, A.Y.Kniazev, S.Fabrika, O.Sholukhova, L.N.Berdnikov, A.M.Cherepashchuk, A.V.Zharova We report the discovery of a new Galactic candidate Luminous Blue Variable (cLBV) via detection of an infrared cir...
Hi I'm only new here (joined just now) Hope this is in the right place (don't kick me out :( Two things: 1. I'm from Australia and visiting the US this year to catch a shuttle launch. While there I'd like to meet up with Neil Armstrong. No interviews etc. Just wanna say G'Day. I'm finding it hard to locate hi...
GOES-10 Meteorological Satellite Will Be Replaced By GOES-12 In December Managed by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, from the United States, the meteorological satellite GOES-10 is used by National Institute for Space Research for the weather forecast. The satellite will be...
Driven to Explore is a travelling exhibit produced by NASA that combines multimedia presentations, scale models, launch vehicles, spacesuits and gear. It all dovetails into why NASA is returning to moon exploration, said Bill Heidner, curator of the Heritage Centre museum at Yuma Proving Groun...
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse in Gemini, visible in the Eastern Hemisphere. Greatest eclipse takes place at 19:23 UT. A partial eclipse of the Moon takes place on the evening of 31st December. Lunar eclipses are visible wherever the Moon is above the horizon and this one will be visible from virtually all...
Highlights:Winter Solstice on December 22nd. This is officially the longest night of 2009, (even though the year's earliest sunset occurs two weeks earlier). The Geminid meteors on the night of the 13th-14th. Watch out for this reliable shower. Capricornus, the Sea Goat: Sign of the Zodiac for bi...
Orbital elements: 2006 JN6 Earth MOID = 0.1593 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 214.17227 (2000.0) P Q n 0.44283339 Peri. 22.45136 -0.16484796 +0.95336726 a 1.7046785 Node 238.90604 -0.94384724 -0.22688688 e 0.3216860 Incl. 17.17164 -0.28631718 +0.19903070 P 2.23 H 20.4 G 0.15 U 1 [u...
A possible magnitude 16.6 nova was discovered on the 22nd December, 2009, in M31 in the constellation Andromeda. The nova is located 34' west and 21' south from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 00 40 19.41, Dec +41° 15 47.6
China building large radio telescope for space observation Construction of a 65-meter-diameter radio telescope started Tuesday in Shanghai, an official from one of funders said Wednesday. The telescope, a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy, will be used in tracking and c...
The 250 - 550 metre wide asteroid 2008 YZ32 will make a close pass (21.3 lunar distances, 0.0548 AU), travelling at 20.84 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th December, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), t...
Orbital elements: 2007 GW5 Earth MOID = 0.2142 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 152.56469 (2000.0) P Q n 0.56559059 Peri. 261.05682 +0.35772290 +0.90795011 a 1.4481090 Node 32.72209 -0.61595137 +0.40513103 e 0.2877540 Incl. 23.81986 -0.70188193 +0.10721681 P 1.74 H 21.6 G 0.15 U 1 [u...
Orbital elements: 2008 EZ97 Earth MOID = 0.2449 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 154.16205 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26419676 Peri. 196.77702 -0.07689575 +0.98737760 a 2.4053839 Node 68.98410 -0.89689060 -0.00783921 e 0.4780935 Incl. 8.53026 -0.43551612 -0.15818985 P 3.73 H 18.0 G 0.15 U 1 [u...
NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better understanding of Earth's formation or perhaps the origin of life on our planet. The proposed missions woul...
A German computer scientist has published details of the secret code used to protect the conversations of more than 4bn mobile phone users. Karsten Nohl, working with other experts, has spent the past five months cracking the algorithm used to encrypt calls using GSM technology. [url=http://new...
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