Orbital elements: 2009 VZ PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0211 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 8.90647 (2000.0) P Q n 0.59673277 Peri. 221.53190 -0.07987888 -0.98236757 a 1.3972779 Node 233.73294 +0.96090798 -0.03078863 e 0.3177442 Incl. 12.10201 +0.26509474 -0.18440722 P 1.65 H 21.2 G 0.15 U 8...
Orbital elements: 2009 UF2 Earth MOID = 0.0692 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 12.33477 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25871596 Peri. 248.47013 +0.58431135 -0.81144357 a 2.4392364 Node 165.75687 +0.76120285 +0.54297054 e 0.5729200 Incl. 2.75228 +0.28133692 +0.21619972 P 3.81 H 24.1 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
Spaniards discover forgotten Euphrates city They have renamed it the city recovered from the Euphrates and it is found in the Syrian enclave of Tall Qabr on the banks of the river that, with the Tigris, was the centre of the birth of civilisation in Mesopotamia. It is a circularly planned city, dating...
China will launch a scientific research satellite into space in the near future from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern Gansu Province, a spokesman with the centre said Wednesday. The satellite, "Shijian XI-01," would be carried by a China-developed Long March 2...
Orbital elements: 2008 ST291 Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 17.94385 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00090024 Peri. 324.47338 +0.44779368 +0.87745416 a 106.2258814 Node 330.96306 -0.71645758 +0.23708312 e 0.6066176 Incl. 20.74398 -0.53494799 +0.41697218 P 1090 H 4.4 G 0.15 U 5 [url=http://www.c...
A Russian Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the Mini Research Module 2, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 14:22 GMT, 10th November, 2009. The flight will deliver 1,800 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. The 8-ton Mini Research Module-2, known as "Poisk,"...
Orbital elements: 2009 VB1 Earth MOID = 0.1738 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 5.53862 (2000.0) P Q n 0.50194341 Peri. 219.29216 +0.11134481 -0.91988794 a 1.5680728 Node 228.03205 +0.99052793 +0.13332404 e 0.2916566 Incl. 30.38191 +0.08035395 -0.36882363 P 1.96 H 23.6 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
The heavens will open up to the Rio Grande Valley tonight. After more than 10 years in the works, the only observatory in the area will make its debut at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. "An Evening under the Stars" will take place at the Nompuewenu Observ...
Group has huge plans for Galileo anniversary Amateur astronomer Bob Lambert is delighted with his fellow John J. McCarthy Observatory volunteers' plans to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope: They will build a to-scale solar system model that will stretch from the observato...
A magnitude 14.8, Type Ia supernova, 2009kq, was discovered on the 5th November, 2009, in the galaxy MCG +05-21-1 in the constellation Cancer. by R. Gagliano, and T. Puckett using the Double Beam Spectrograph on the Palomar 200-inch telescope. They report that the supernova best matches the Type I...
After two days of murky weather caused by cyclone Phyan, Ahmedabad was back to being bright and sunny on Friday morning. But with the sun playing hide and seek again in the afternoon, the minimum temperature remained at 20 degree Celsius while maximum temperature was recorded at 30 degree Celsius. [...
Orbital elements: 2009 SV171 Earth MOID = 0.1758 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 322.41789 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21859305 Peri. 232.78730 +0.14482877 -0.98313023 a 2.7292615 Node 209.47740 +0.96444232 +0.16549098 e 0.6023289 Incl. 13.12168 +0.22107836 -0.07789530 P 4.51 H 19.4 G 0.15...