Every cook knows the ingredients for making bread: flour, water, yeast, and time. But what chemical elements are in the recipe of our universe? Most of the ingredients are hydrogen and helium. These cosmic lightweights fill the first two spots on the famous periodic table of the elements. Less abun...
A half-ton of space rock has mysteriously reappeared at a Tupelo building supply store. Lindsey Leake, the store's co-owner, tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that they got a call last month from a person who claimed to have the meteorite and wanted to return it. [url=http://www.wxvt...
The 130 - 300 metre wide asteroid 2006 VG13 made a close pass (39.6 lunar distances, 0.1018 AU), travelling at 10.67 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th December, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...
Orbital elements: 2009 WQ106 Earth MOID = 0.0863 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 352.65946 (2000.0) P Q n 0.71407172 Peri. 44.68024 -0.35197489 -0.87150836 a 1.2396759 Node 68.74424 +0.72313261 -0.48480355 e 0.1687906 Incl. 21.49204 +0.59430035 +0.07374755 P 1.38 H 24.5 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Orbital elements: 2008 SE82 Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 7.72316 (2000.0) P Q n 0.01137180 Peri. 300.41355 +0.77111241 +0.62728630 a 19.5846789 Node 21.35626 -0.43117841 +0.64053603 e 0.8363447 Incl. 17.42893 -0.46847715 +0.44297347 P 86.67 H 14.8 G 0.15 U 3 [url=http://www.cfa...
The Bulgarian observatory Stellar Society - IAU A79 announced that it had discovered eleven new asteroids in November. One of the asteroids is the largest Solar System body found by Bulgarian astronomers in 20 years. The asteroid, designated as 2009 WS24, has a diameter of some 4.5 km. [url=http:/...
Orbital elements: 2009 QB35 Earth MOID = 0.1279 AU Epoch 2009 Aug. 17.0 TT = JDT 2455060.5 MPC M 345.28508 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26379081 Peri. 173.05768 +0.81496714 -0.57524630 a 2.4078510 Node 222.31440 +0.52655218 +0.78560117 e 0.5342826 Incl. 5.98085 +0.24201521 +0.22786508 P 3.74 H 19.5 G 0.15 Fr...
The launch of the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TEXUS 47 rocket on 29 November 2009 at 10:00 from Esrange in Kiruna, northern Sweden, and the successful recovery of its payload was the auspicious conclusion of this years TEXUS (Technologische Experimen...
Transparent universe reveals hidden galaxies The universe is far more transparent at high energies than we thought. This discovery - based on sightings of unexpectedly bright objects that should be too far away to see so clearly - may call into question our understanding of how galaxies are born an...
Oceans cover nearly three-quarters of Earth's surface, yet they remain the least explored territories of our planet. Oceans, a new film produced by filmmaker Jacques Perrin, captures the mysterious and fascinating marine world like never before. ESA supported the production of the film by prov...
A Williamtown RAAF base spokesman has suggested that "supersonic activity" by aircraft taking part in a major defence exercise off the coast was responsible for the shaking felt by Hunter residents last night. The spokesman said there were aircraft taking part in the East Coast Air Def...
Fibre optics improve infrared astronomy Australian astronomers have developed a small-scale fibre-optic instrument that could revolutionise the way astronomers use telescopes to observe the night sky. The device, about the size of a microwave oven, blankets out the brightness of the sky in th...
Pegasus flight over 100000 ft photographs earthClick to Play | View Details Jonathan and Mihir launch Project Pegasus with a high altitude balloon into space to an altitude of 100,000 feet to capture spectacular pictures and photos of the earth.
Bright flash turns night into day A fast moving meteor lit up the night skies over most of Utah just after midnight Wednesday. KSL News has been receiving hundreds of calls from southern Utah to southern Idaho. People are reporting a flash so bright it lit up the entire sky for a couple of seconds. [url=...
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