41st annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society Sunday October 4 to Friday October 9, 2009 El Conquistador Resort, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, USA Embargoed: All findings are embargoed until the time of presentation at the meeting. "Time of presen...
Orbital elements: 2007 BX48 Earth MOID = 0.1227 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 91.68320 (2000.0) P Q n 0.60371806 Peri. 8.03706 +0.65392646 +0.72561862 a 1.3864789 Node 303.09659 -0.70756971 +0.48637505 e 0.3597869 Incl. 14.81021 -0.26781578 +0.48674113 P 1.63 H 20.0 G 0.15 U 5 [ur...
Russia plots return to Venus Densely clouded in acid-laden mist, Venus used to be the Soviet Union's favourite target for planetary exploration. Now, after a lull of almost three decades, Russia is making plans for a new mission to the "morning star" and has invited Western scientists t...
When Jules Verne wrote about a gigantic gun that could be used to launch people into space in the 19th century, no one expected it to become a reality. Now physicist John Hunter has outlined the design of such a gun that he says could slash the cost of putting cargo into orbit. [url=http://www.newscien...
China's satellite diplomacy shifts a gear In late September, China announced that it would build and launch a new communications satellite for Bolivia in the next three years, and shortly thereafter, China announced that it would do the same for Laos, although no timetable was disclosed. Talk of C...
Satellite data instrumental in combating desertification With land degradation in dryland regions continuing to worsen, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification has agreed on scientist-recommended indicators for monitoring and assessing desertification that signatory countries mus...
A UFO appears to streak through the sky in this astonishing video of the Iranians test firing a controversial missile. The mystery object zooms unseen through Iran's airspace - before splitting a cloud in two as the film focuses in on the soaring rocket. [url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepa...
Lincoln Laboratory's Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program has discovered more than 200,000 space objects, 30,000-plus of which have been numbered and made available for naming as minor planets. To the discoverer of these minor planets ( often referred to as asteroids ) go the r...
'KSLV-II launch in 2019 will be difficult' For Korea to launch a fully indigenous space rocket in 2019 as planned may be difficult because the country has yet to sufficiently secure core technology, a lawmaker said yesterday. During the ongoing parliamentary inspection of the administration, Re...
Asteroid (35396) 1997 XF11 is a near-Earth and Mars-crosser asteroid which, shortly after its discovery on December 6, 1997, by James V. Scotti of the University of Arizona's Spacewatch Project, was predicted to make an exceptionally close approach to Earth in October 2028. [url=http://en.wik...
The cadets are evaluating these presentations against a variety of criteria and will develop several satellite concepts for FalconSAT-6 using the best and most appropriate combinations of payloads. These satellite concepts will then be presented to several government agencies for funding de...
Title: On the Nature of the Apparent Ring Galaxy SDSS J075234.33+292049.8 Authors: Noah Brosch, Alexei Y. Kniazev, Alexei Moiseev, Simon A. Pustilnik An object classified as a galaxy in on-line data bases and revealed on sky survey images as a distant ring galaxy is a rare case of polar ring galaxy w...
Trasmissione in Diretta LIVE - Giove, il Gigante del Sistema SolareBenvenuti in Coelum Stream, il portale per i video astronomici amatoriali e conferenze live. Conferenza in diretta web su questa pagina. Il vero colosso planetario della famiglia del Sole, Giove, sarà la meta di questa nuova punt...
Iran's Aerospace Research Centre official announced on Tuesday that the country will launch its research rocket called Kavoshgar (Explorer) into space by the end of March 2010, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "Iranian Kavoshgar rocket will be sent into the space by the end of t...
