Farmer sparks UFO alert with helium balloons A red-faced farmer, Johnny Hewitt, has come clean after sparking a nationwide UFO sighting frenzy with a pack of illuminated party balloons. Mr Hewitt, 35, had tethered hundreds of the mulit-coloured helium-filled balloons containing miniature LED...
Orbital elements: 2009 TQ8 Earth MOID = 0.0054 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 5.20507 (2000.0) P Q n 0.67007634 Peri. 95.42377 -0.49361714 -0.86406202 a 1.2933613 Node 24.92628 +0.67599214 -0.45259645 e 0.4298512 Incl. 13.54196 +0.54715331 -0.22034808 P 1.47 H 24.2 G 0.15 U 9 [url=...
John O'Sullivan, an Australian radio astronomer who helped develop wi-fi technology has won the Prime Minister's prestigious Science Prize. Wi-fi technology has become an essential part of everyday life. It is found in personal computers, video games, mobile phones and much more. [url=http:/...
President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will spend $600 million on a nuclear-powered spacecraft to take men to Mars, and beyond. A nuclear-powered spaceship that can carry passengers to Mars and beyond may sound like science fiction. But Russian engineers say they have a breakthrough design for su...
Orbital elements: 2009 UV18 Earth MOID = 0.0993 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 341.70183 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49140319 Peri. 92.83754 -0.98693248 -0.08687507 a 1.5904160 Node 82.20519 +0.02369209 -0.91129483 e 0.4014469 Incl. 7.87283 +0.15938308 -0.40248535 P 2.01 H 15.9 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge continues to heat up, with a FOURTH competitor now officially entered in the race for the remaining purses. Team BonNovA, stationed in Mojave, CA, will be flying their Lauryad I & II vehicles on October 26-27, 2009 at Cantil, CA. [url=http://thelau...
Title: The magnetic field of the evolved star W43A Authors: N. Amiri (Sterrewacht Leiden/ JIVE), W.H.T. Vlemmings (Bonn University), H.J. van Langevelde (JIVE/Sterrewacht Leiden) The majority of the observed planetary nebulae exhibit elliptical or bipolar structures. Theoretical modelli...
Would-be stargazers are being given the opportunity to use Oxford University equipment normally reserved for research to look up at the universe. At the universitys physics department, one can glimpse the heavens through the Philip Wetton Telescope - which has a lens 16in in diameter. [url=http...
A possible new variable star in the constellation Gemini was discovered on the 21st October, 2009. Discovery magnitude 18.3 Position (2000): RA 06 53 43.71, Dec +19 19 00.5
A possible magnitude 9.3 nova has been discovered on the 26th October, 2009, in the constellation Sagittarius. Position(2000): RA 18 31 32.79, Dec -16 19 07.5 Ed ~ this is a deeply crowded part of the sky.
Six year-old Polish boy names asteroid "Live" is the name given to asteroid number 66189 by six year old Kajetan Jalochowski., who has won a Warsaw Copernicus Science Centre contest. The name of the asteroid will now appear in official cosmos atlases. The asteroid "Live" is...
The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory has allowed the stunning Jewel Box star cluster to be seen in a whole new light. Star c...
The long-dormant Nevado del Huila volcano erupted late Tuesday and early Wednesday, provoking avalanches and floods that swept away houses and bridges and prompted thousands to evacuate. "There are 10,000 people in the zo...
Out in the cosmos, there is really no such thing as "empty space." Much of space is actually "dark energy" -- a force that has overcome gravity and is pulling galaxies apart, expanding the universe. Alex Filippenko, one of the world's leading astronomers, will delve into this...
Orbital elements: 2009 RN PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0096 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 335.91352 (2000.0) P Q n 0.16773503 Peri. 345.53924 +0.56634083 -0.82227770 a 3.2562684 Node 69.93647 +0.76194401 +0.49655378 e 0.6956580 Incl. 3.40776 +0.31416459 +0.27801750 P 5.88 H 19.8 G 0.15 U...
