On Tuesday, December 1, 2009, Dr. David Kring will be the second speaker in NLSIs Directors Seminar Series. He will be speaking on the Lunar Cataclysm Hypothesis, from a sample-based perspective. Read more
A Russian Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch a Soyuz TMA spacecraft with the crew of Expedition 21, to the International Space Station, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 2:14 a.m. CDT, 30th September, 2009.
The 47 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2006 WH130 will make a close pass (52.7 lunar distances, 0.1353 AU), travelling at 9.83 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th November, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), t...
The best proto-brown dwarf candidate so far A recent study has found the best proto-brown dwarf candidate known to date. Calar Alto has contributed key data to this finding. This object, known as SSTB213 J041757, is placed in the constellation of Taurus, inside the dark cloud Barnard 213, at a dista...
TiO2 Nanoparticles Cause Systemic Genetic Damage in Mice Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Compre...
Orbital elements: 2009 SX1 Earth MOID = 0.0583 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 276.00846 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49391336 Peri. 117.92361 -0.03056329 -0.99774649 a 1.5850229 Node 333.62352 +0.86329943 +0.00376825 e 0.4027032 Incl. 7.72675 +0.50376580 -0.06699056 P 2.00 H 18.8 G 0.15 U 9 [...
30 November 2009 - 4 December 2009 Venue: Centre for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, University of Wi****ersrand, South Africa. The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in String Theory and its relationship with Gravity and Cosmology. Diverse topics will be covered,...
Orbital elements: 2009 WE106 Earth MOID = 0.0136 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 5.88450 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35713631 Peri. 24.38975 -0.02081998 -0.99730547 a 1.9674938 Node 66.86700 +0.90426030 -0.04879709 e 0.5019003 Incl. 4.38712 +0.42647372 +0.05477804 P 2.76 H 27.2 G 0.15 U 7 [url...
Drouot's Natural History auction offers range of spacerocks Tomorrow, December 1, Drouot's auction house is offering nearly 50 meteorites at its Natural History auction. Whilst some are fairly ordinary pieces priced at a couple of hundred Euros, there are some exceptional pieces available. [u...
.Astronomy 2009 - Leiden The second .Astronomy conference runs from November 30th to December 4th in the Lorentz Centre in Leiden. 50 participants from around the world will be taking part in a week-long conference exploring the connections between astronomy and the Internet. [url=http://dota...
Title: Direct detection of a flared disk around a young massive star HD200775 and its 10 to 1000AU scale properties Authors: Yoshiko Kataza Okamoto, Hirokazu Kataza, M. Honda, H. Fujiwara, M. Momose, N. Ohashi, T. Fujiyoshi, I. Sakon, S. Sako, T. Yama****a, T. Miyata, T. Onaka We made mid-infrared...
Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today University of Greenwich 6 February 2010 The University of Greenwich Department of Mathematical Sciences, in conjunction with The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), is very pleased to announce the inaugural Undergraduate Mathematics Confe...
I'm not much of an Astronomer but with all this talk of meteor showers last night, I was keeping an extra good eye out and did see the most amazing shooting star. It was so bright and big that I was actually a bit spooked before realizing what it was. But I can't tell you what I wished for though! [url=http:/...
Telescope donation celebrates International Year of Astronomy More students in the Greater Victoria school district can aim for the stars with the donation of 30 telescopes by the Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. [url=http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/T...
To be launched in 2010/2011, Keo will fly through space for 50000 years before returning to Earth. KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule which was to have been launched in 2003 carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it would reenter Earth...