Just months after celebrating the successful maiden missions of a crucial new heavy-lift rocket and unmanned cargo spaceship, Japan's space agency has been brought back to earth with a bump by terrestrial budget realities. Funding requests for fiscal 2010 from the Japan Aerospace Exploration A...
Orbital elements: 2009 XV PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0214 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 18.60578 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24347564 Peri. 326.87542 +0.97914801 -0.19905677 a 2.5399921 Node 44.66375 +0.19666941 +0.87880289 e 0.6795490 Incl. 3.30827 +0.05089511 +0.43368408 P 4.05 H 21.1 G 0.15 U 8 [...
ATK tests new rocket motor at Arnold Air Force Base Utah-based aerospace contractor Alliant Techsystems successfully tested its Castor 30 rocket motor at the U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Centre, in Tullahoma, Tenn., Wednesday, furthering efforts to improve solid rocket stag...
Spektakulært fenomen på himmelen over Nord-Norge. I morgenrushet, klokka 07.47, dukket det spesielle fenomenet opp på himmelen. Tusenvis av mennesker over hele Nord-Norge har fått med seg fenomenet, og telefonlinjene både til Altaposten, de aller fleste andre nordnorske medier og også hoved...
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics during the 2009 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The meeting takes place Dec. 14-18 at the Moscone Convention Centre, 747 Howard St., in San Francisco. [url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqn...
Title: Discovery of a Faint Companion to Alcor Using MMT/AO 5 \mu m Imaging Authors: Eric E. Mamajek (1), Matthew A. Kenworthy (2), Philip M. Hinz (2), Michael R. Meyer (2,3) ((1) University of Rochester, (2) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, (3) Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich) We r...
Twice on Wednesday, KOLD NEWS 13 received tweets, emails and phone calls about a loud boom. Was it an earthquake, mining activity or a sonic boom? The Tucson seismograph shows plenty of activity today, but none of significance from local activity. Instead, the only clear signatures on the seismo...
The 5th Appleton Space Conference will be held at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on Thursday 10th December 2009. The event will celebrate the UK space industry with a range of very interesting presentations. Read more
Santiago de Compostela, Spain The Astronomical Observatory Ramon Maria Aller of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) is organizing an international mini-workshop, "Double and Multiple Stars: Dynamics, Physics, and Instrumentaion". [url=http://www.usc....
Daniel Handley is determined to prevent Allegheny Observatory from being forgotten. So he's making a documentary film about the North Side stargazing center where astronomers of yore discovered that Venus is shrouded with clouds and present-day scientists search for clues to planets outside E...
Orbital elements: 2007 WV3 Earth MOID = 0.0922 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 23.58453 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45752522 Peri. 107.62158 +0.96453579 -0.15069146 a 1.6679871 Node 261.46739 +0.06500961 +0.93134862 e 0.4525802 Incl. 12.65820 +0.25582115 +0.33148429 P 2.15 H 19.9 G 0.15 U 2 [u...
Meteor lights up Gauteng It was a meteor which lit up the skies over Johannesburg and Pretoria on Saturday night, an astronomer has confirmed. Read more
New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signal...
NASA Making Government More Accessible With Cutting-Edge Use Of New Media NASA is supporting the White House's Open Government Directive with a number of Internet-based programs designed to make the agency more accessible and create a dialog with the American people about their space program. [...