Famous UFO story of Edinburgh pair to be made into movie The story about two Scots friends who claimed they were abducted by aliens is finally to be made into a movie. Garry Wood and Colin Wright, now 46 and 42, claimed to have had a close encounter in 1992 when they were beamed aboard a UFO while driving ne...
Orbital elements: 2009 TQ Earth MOID = 0.0198 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 31.27356 (2000.0) P Q n 0.70054284 Peri. 46.62958 +0.45928956 -0.88606056 a 1.2555854 Node 16.36156 +0.73677744 +0.34047529 e 0.2356461 Incl. 12.89128 +0.49619764 +0.31460015 P 1.41 H 26.0 G 0.15 U 6 [url=...
The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift), named after Austrian physicist Christian Doppler who proposed it in 1842, is the change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the waves. Read more Doppler Effect...
It wasnt your typical payload pushed out the back of C-17 at 25,000 feet. Wednesday, a C-17 flying a test mission for NASA over Arizona released a 72,000-pound rocket-shaped payload as part of an evaluation of parachutes intended for the next generation of rockets intended launch astronauts and ca...
Cities in big Solar System model Cities and towns in Scotland will be used to help represent planets and asteroids in a large-scale model of the Solar System. The project, which will see the Glasgow Science Centre represent the Sun, was run in the spring to promote International Year of Astronomy 200...
Air Force Restrictions Impact Adaptive Optics Restrictions imposed by the Air Force on the use of lasers are significantly diminishing the utility of adaptive optics for studying the cosmos, according to a number of astronomers. "At one time, four or five years ago, we were getting very few r...
Keji could become official dark sky preserve Kejimkujik is known for its tea-coloured lakes and rivers, white-tailed deer and towering stands of old-growth forest. But after the sun goes down in this national park, another natural treasure begins to shine. [url=http://thechronicleherald.ca...
Title: The Masses and Radii of HD186753B and TYC7096-222-1B: The First M-dwarfs known to Eclipse A-type Stars Authors: S. J. Bentley, B. Smalley, P. F. L. Maxted, C. Hellier, D. M. Wilson, D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, M. Gillon, L. Hebb, D. L. Pollacco, D. Queloz, A. H. M. J. Triaud, R. G. West (V...
The 1700 - 3800 metre wide asteroid 1999 AP10 will make a close pass (29.7 Lunar Distances, 0.0763 AU), travelling at 8.21 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th October, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance...
Located next to the Space Centre, the Gordon MacMillan Southam Observatory features a ½ metre Cassegrain telescope to explore the skies around Vancouver. Read more
The Central Maine Astronomical Society will hold its monthly Star Party Saturday, Oct. 17 at Galaxy Quest Observatory in Lincolnville from from 7-10 p.m. Read more
Irene Early, a design engineer for aerospace giant Rockwell whose name is part of the Space Walk of Fame Museum, was a single mother of two and one of the firm's few female engineers when she was asked to come up with some practical uses for Velcro. [url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obi...
Orbital elements: 2009 TJ Earth MOID = 0.0248 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 14.22386 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30037165 Peri. 36.83810 +0.33227371 -0.94186826 a 2.2081577 Node 33.83625 +0.84263244 +0.27272321 e 0.6183110 Incl. 5.12943 +0.42375082 +0.19623003 P 3.28 H 22.7 G 0.15 U 7 [url=h...
