Possible outburst of the dwarf nova BC Ursae Majoris The outburst (magnitude V = 11.7) was discovered on the 30th September, 2009, by T. Parson (USA). Position(2000): RA 11 52 15.83, Dec +49 14 42.0Light curve
Typhoon Ketsana is forecast to make landfall in Vietnam probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 12 hours probability for TS is 95% in about 12 hours Da Nang (16.1 N, 108.2 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 95% in about 12 hours Quang Ngai (15.1 N, 108.8 E) pr...
Orbital elements: 2009 SQ172 Earth MOID = 0.5049 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 328.61583 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23301193 Peri. 252.38840 +0.77616605 -0.54746937 a 2.6154752 Node 139.16959 +0.58092210 +0.81377785 e 0.5037624 Incl. 28.58205 -0.24514440 +0.19504588 P 4.23 H 18.3 G 0.15...
Orbital elements: 2009 SS172 Earth MOID = 0.0752 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 333.03238 (2000.0) P Q n 0.51505255 Peri. 313.11420 +0.70330497 +0.71085042 a 1.5413515 Node 1.63500 -0.55445580 +0.55496880 e 0.3439409 Incl. 14.89495 -0.44490548 +0.43208947 P 1.91 H 23.5 G 0.15 U 9...
Title: SV Cen reveals its mystery Authors: Michal Siwak (1), Stanislaw Zola (2,3), Slavek Rucinski (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto (2) Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, (3) Mount Suhora Astronomical Observatory, Peda...
Orbital elements: 2009 SG18 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0123 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 320.88920 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24512939 Peri. 206.99051 +0.89640912 -0.44280856 a 2.5285553 Node 178.69165 +0.35702396 +0.74714466 e 0.6143821 Incl. 57.55281 -0.26264917 -0.49567675 P 4.02 H 17.7 G 0...
According to Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Russia is to launch the Oka-T orbital laboratory in 2015. The laboratory spacecraft would serve as a free floating laboratory for experiments on space technologies and material sciences in the environment...
There will be a couple of rare and unusual highlights this September. Another rare event will happen around the King of the Planets. All four of Jupiter's large Galilean moons, first discovered by Galileo through his telescope 400 years ago, will disappear at the same time. That only happens a few ti...
Orbital elements: 2002 WQ Earth MOID = 0.2457 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 329.75001 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28481010 Peri. 334.30295 +0.43539760 -0.70684948 a 2.2878759 Node 85.07581 +0.89190106 +0.25461499 e 0.4756339 Incl. 34.02490 +0.12223516 +0.65995077 P 3.46 H 18.5 G 0.15 U 2 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 SW171 Earth MOID = 0.0242 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 311.84415 (2000.0) P Q n 0.64062090 Peri. 148.90419 +0.92477140 +0.38044009 a 1.3327090 Node 188.74590 -0.35898332 +0.86530496 e 0.2349245 Incl. 2.99672 -0.12620946 +0.32636278 P 1.54 H 25.9 G 0.15 U...
Orbital elements: 2008 DH23 Earth MOID = 0.4549 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 274.38906 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46268287 Peri. 92.42071 -0.06205041 -0.99801569 a 1.6555683 Node 1.29168 +0.61718936 -0.04679182 e 0.2588172 Incl. 28.33068 +0.78436410 -0.04213333 P 2.13 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 3 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 SU171 Earth MOID = 0.0579 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 339.67514 (2000.0) P Q n 0.73533826 Peri. 241.68605 -0.30750416 +0.95096673 a 1.2156576 Node 10.56583 -0.79723655 -0.23842147 e 0.4844457 Incl. 10.43739 -0.51947576 -0.19702154 P 1.34 H 23.5 G 0.15 U...
Orbital elements: 2007 VH186 Earth MOID = 0.2799 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 272.67945 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49897020 Peri. 15.05292 +0.40890502 -0.87536880 a 1.5742957 Node 51.52178 +0.79954726 +0.20740668 e 0.1967904 Incl. 19.23682 +0.43991005 +0.43670577 P 1.98 H 20.2 G 0.15 U 2...
Orbital elements: 2009 ST171 Earth MOID = 0.0274 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 330.28088 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23723185 Peri. 205.88087 +0.84355286 -0.53699358 a 2.5843662 Node 186.61334 +0.50336555 +0.79544948 e 0.6081273 Incl. 3.74097 +0.18719426 +0.28088792 P 4.15 H 26.8 G 0.15 U...