NASA and Spaceward Foundation announce week of Nov 2, 2009 as final date for the 4th Space Elevator Challenge. From June to July 2009 NASA and Spaceward have conducted various stress tests of the laser and tether equipment intended to be used during this year's power beaming competition. As a result...
The magnitude 16.9 asteroid (31867) 2000 EG94 will occult the magnitude 3.0 star Sadalmelik (Alpha Aquarii) from 20:28 to 20:36 UT, 3rd November, 2009. The max duration of the occultation is expected to be 0.4 sec with the star dimming by 13.9 magnitudes. The event is visible from Europe (34 deg nor...
Orbital elements: 2009 UM28 Earth MOID = 0.0839 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 22.29797 (2000.0) P Q n 0.37974509 Peri. 9.51260 +0.74114937 -0.66621342 a 1.8886056 Node 32.74783 +0.60544165 +0.60999906 e 0.4312815 Incl. 8.80559 +0.29006554 +0.42902310 P 2.60 H 23.6 G 0.15 U 7 [url=...
A Brean woman claims she saw an aeroplane engulfed in a fireball in the skies above her home yesterday evening. Read more Mystery surrounds an appare...
Heritage Malta is organising an event entitled 'Experiencing l-Ghid tal-Erwieh' (All Souls' Day) at the Inquisitors Palace in Vittoriosa on Friday, 6 November. Participants will be introduced to the traditional celebration by two presentations by Heritage Malta head curator Kenneth Gambin....
Leonard Nimoy Signed Telescope Contest A vintage telescope signed by Leonard Nimoy has been won by Patricia Kelty of Brooklyn, New York, in a contest run by the Franklin Institute Science Museum.
On occasion, I run into a question for which I have no definitive answer. I then throw out the question to the readers for extra facts and opinions. Such was the case in my last column in which I was asked about rocks, called axes, which supposedly fell from thunderstorms in Ghana. Here is an excerpt from...
Orbital elements: 2009 UK14 Earth MOID = 0.0111 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 13.92105 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42561527 Peri. 52.61346 +0.19183655 -0.98128174 a 1.7503487 Node 26.34145 +0.88799214 +0.16622387 e 0.4669462 Incl. 2.17998 +0.41793385 +0.09724077 P 2.32 H 25.7 G 0.15 U 9 [url...
The 7 - 15 metre wide asteroid 2006 UE64 will make a close pass (75.6 Lunar Distances, 0.1943 AU), travelling at 17.12 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distanc...
Google PowerMeter is a free electricity usage monitoring tool that provides you with information on how much energy your home is consuming. Google PowerMeter receives information from utility smart meters and in-home energy management devices and visualises this information for you on iGoogl...
Radhakrishnan is new ISRO chief K. Radhakrishnan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, took over as Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), from G. Madhavan Nair on Saturday. Dr. Radhakrishnan also assumed office as Chairman, Space Commission an...
Autumn has finally arrived, bringing comfortable, mostly cloud-free observing conditions for Arizona star-gazers. One of the more interesting fall constellations is Capricornus, perhaps the weirdest mythological being ever imagined - part goat, part fish. The way star charts depict it, tho...
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