* Astronomy

The first German satellite, AZUR, was launched 40 years ago. On 8 November 1969 at 02:52 Central European Time (CET), which was 7 November at 17:52 Pacific Standard Time (PST), a four-stage American Scout-B rocket took off from the launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California - with German...

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The 760 - 1700 metre wide asteroid (54660) 2000 UJ1 will make a close pass (43.3 Lunar Distances, 0.1113 AU), travelling at 25.25 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th November, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...

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A Russian Soyuz SL-6 Rocket Body that was launched on the 2nd August, 1984, from the Plesetsk launch complex on the KOSMOS 1586 mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 6th November, 2009 @ 06:11 GMT ±48 hours. TLE Data pre>SL6 RB2 1 15156U 84079D 09306.88146277 .18437291 138...

Indonesian Astronomers Set Sights on New Observatories Astronomers are studying the feasibility of constructing two observatories in the central and eastern parts of Indonesia, where the sky is still relatively free from light pollution. Hakim Luthfi Malasan, an astronomer from the Bosscha O...

Geothermal drilling taps violent geyser in Wiesbaden city centre Construction workers drilling for a geothermal heat source in the traditional spa town of Wiesbaden created a violent geyser that caused flooding contained only by early Friday morning, Hessian authorities said. [url=http://w...

Ice chunks from sky batter a North Side house[url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ice-hit-hous...

ESA's Education Office has awarded a contract to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd of the UK to manage the development and testing of the first European student mission to the Moon. Launch is expected in 2013-2014. Read more

A magnitude 15.1 supernova, 2009kp, was discovered on the 3rd November, 2009, by T. Boles, in the spiral galaxy NGC 6246 in the constellation Draco. The supernova is located 15.0" west and 0.1" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA = 16h49m51s...

Orbital elements: 2009 UL28 Earth MOID = 0.0221 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 11.84897 (2000.0) P Q n 0.37776496 Peri. 232.61649 +0.18877170 -0.98177499 a 1.8951995 Node 206.52749 +0.91582680 +0.18408162 e 0.4937167 Incl. 2.82084 +0.35443832 +0.04724222 P 2.61 H 24.9 G 0.15 U 9 [u...

The Romanian Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Association (ARCA) will launch in October from a Black Sea platform the country's first space rocket dubbed Helen, in what is the final rehearsal for a 30 million dollar astronautic contest for landing a privately built spacecraft on the moon, initiated...

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Orbital elements: 2009 US19 Earth MOID = 0.0273 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 12.24590 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42671971 Peri. 229.39422 +0.16082472 -0.98268875 a 1.7473272 Node 211.70821 +0.95014218 +0.17936914 e 0.4708359 Incl. 10.07752 +0.26714274 -0.04636303 P 2.31 H 23.4 G 0.15 U 7 [...

NASA Drops Ares I-Y Flight-test NASA's Constellation Program has recommended dropping a planned follow-on to last week's successful Ares I-X flight-test because it doesn't have the funding necessary to get an upper stage engine ready in time. [url=http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/...