The Meade Telestar NG-60 is a 60 mm refracting telescope that features three eyepieces, a 3x Barlow lens and StarLocator Astro software. Package Contains: * Meade Telestar NG-60 60mm Refracting Telescope * Refractor optical design * 60 mm objective lens * 600 mm focal length * f/11.7 focal ratio *...
By day Tim Doucette is legally blind and can barely see across the street, but when darkness falls he can see far into space. The Moncton, N.B.-based computer programmer was born with cataracts, and surgeons removed the lenses in his eyes when he was an infant. The procedure left his eyes overly sensi...
Unidentified flying object crashes into mountain An air and ground search of the area where a bright flash and explosion was witnessed early this morning has failed to find an obvious cause. Emergency services initially believed a plane may have crashed into a mountain at Takilberan Creek northwe...
The Waldseemuller map of 1507. The Waldseemuller map was - and still is - an astonishing sight to behold. Drawn 15 years after Columbus first sailed across the Atlantic, and measuring a remarkable 8ft wide by 4½ft high, it introduced Europeans to a fundamentally new understanding of the make-up of t...
Title: The Dynamical Origin of the Multi-Planetary System HD45364 Authors: Hanno Rein, John C. B. Papaloizou, Wilhelm Kley The recently discovered planetary system HD45364 which consists of a Jupiter and Saturn mass planet is very likely in a 3:2 mean motion resonance. The standard scenario to f...
Title: SDSS J013655.91+242546.0 - an A-type hyper-velocity star from the outskirts of the Galaxy Authors: A. Tillich, N. Przybilla, R.-D. Scholz, U. Heber Hyper-velocity stars (HVS) are moving so fast that they are unbound to the Galaxy. Dynamical ejection by a supermassive black hole is favour...
Orbital elements: 2009 UZ87 Earth MOID = 0.0128 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 197.69970 (2000.0) P Q n 1.13411696 Peri. 39.94886 -0.20348092 +0.97812993 a 0.9106765 Node 218.36684 -0.91508986 -0.20564997 e 0.1863228 Incl. 3.98146 -0.34814661 -0.03114372 P 0.87 H 25.6 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 UY87 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0417 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 4.66001 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30689563 Peri. 126.96216 -0.56983774 -0.82173836 a 2.1767518 Node 357.75460 +0.70154016 -0.48293471 e 0.6636984 Incl. 8.17093 +0.42793264 -0.30252294 P 3.21 H 19.1 G 0.15 U...
Orbital elements: 2009 UW87 Earth MOID = 0.0032 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 10.92317 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35699760 Peri. 234.80477 +0.09792591 -0.99513941 a 1.9680034 Node 209.58064 +0.91978133 +0.09448930 e 0.5503172 Incl. 1.20669 +0.38001687 +0.02773676 P 2.76 H 27.9 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 UV87 Earth MOID = 0.0646 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 16.78969 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24504712 Peri. 179.74010 +0.83748846 -0.53706598 a 2.5291212 Node 213.37961 +0.50103131 +0.82835705 e 0.5816928 Incl. 10.56348 +0.21813001 +0.15932586 P 4.02 H 24.9 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Oldest gold mine discovered in Georgia What's believed to be the world's oldest gold mine has been discovered just outside the Georgian capital Tblisi. Archaeologists have carried out a series of scientific tests which date the mine back to the 3rd millennium BC [url=http://english.cctv.com/p...
An independent panel asked to review a major set of NASA missions has given the thumbs up to a satellite designed to probe dark energy. Less lucky was a major X-ray observatory, which the panel recommends be deferred for now. The report, by the US National Research Council (NRC), prioritises the item...
Orbital elements: 2009 UT87 Earth MOID = 0.1337 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 22.47266 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24754810 Peri. 331.20046 +0.98977380 -0.11272928 a 2.5120580 Node 35.60575 +0.14157448 +0.85127553 e 0.5559252 Incl. 8.63449 -0.01744972 +0.51246667 P 3.98 H 22.9 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2008 QB43 Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 311.47263 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00345115 Peri. 104.88979 +0.35289739 -0.89201723 a 43.3670951 Node 320.47836 +0.59232866 +0.44665029 e 0.2191542 Incl. 26.34786 +0.72429980 +0.06934530 P 286 H 5.6 G 0.15 U 4 [url=http://www.cfa...
Orbital elements: 2008 AP129 Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 39.41406 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00366424 Peri. 56.69673 +0.34114652 -0.93260741 a 41.6690269 Node 14.81322 +0.63373567 +0.13567509 e 0.1385028 Incl. 27.42026 +0.69426086 +0.33441843 P 269 H 5.3 G 0.15 U 5 [url=http://www.cfa.h...
