Orbital elements: 2009 SS171 Earth MOID = 0.1019 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 302.01089 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47084824 Peri. 199.85675 +0.90329733 -0.42811975 a 1.6363722 Node 185.72572 +0.42150083 +0.89765633 e 0.3333094 Incl. 16.12128 +0.07994363 +0.10453038 P 2.09 H 24.8 G 0.15...
Orbital elements: 2009 SR171 Earth MOID = 0.0467 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 233.04831 (2000.0) P Q n 0.74722291 Peri. 80.06599 +0.09527636 -0.99518367 a 1.2027331 Node 4.65639 +0.76516735 +0.05839635 e 0.2713793 Incl. 16.50466 +0.63674276 +0.07873587 P 1.32 H 26.0 G 0.15 U 7 [...
Orbital elements: 2009 SQ171 Earth MOID = 0.0792 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 307.86715 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52169646 Peri. 176.46707 +0.99899636 -0.04257800 a 1.5282373 Node 186.02616 +0.03716024 +0.96117965 e 0.2917695 Incl. 7.61203 +0.02500784 +0.27261840 P 1.89 H 25.7 G 0.15 U...
"It was around 9.30pm. It was a very clear night and I noticed a very bright orange ball of light which was travelling at a quick speed and it was bobbing around." Read more UFO over Derry, Irelan...
Mystery surrounds sightings across south Essex of a "huge fireball" in the sky. Several residents say they saw what looked like a meteor above the county. Mum-of-two Emma Rowe, 32, of Downer Road North, Benfleet, watched the spectacle from her garden with her children at about 10pm on Sa...
Orbital elements: 2004 XM35 Earth MOID = 0.3062 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 285.93358 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39576941 Peri. 322.76806 +0.13811948 -0.98705601 a 1.8372767 Node 119.15945 +0.92967360 +0.10083183 e 0.3005728 Incl. 5.35556 +0.34151137 +0.12471320 P 2.49 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 3...
Title: Perfect imaging without negative refraction Authors: Ulf Leonhardt Perfect imaging has been believed to rely on negative refraction, but here we show that an ordinary positively refracting optical medium may form perfect images as well. In particular, we establish a mathematical proof...
This summer, University of Florida astronomers inaugurated the world's largest optical telescope on a nearly 8,000-foot mountaintop 3,480 miles away. But it was a far more modest observatory, located just above sea level in rural Levy County and just down the road from the UF campus, that proved k...
A photography enthusiast is battling to re-write the history books after a three-year project left him convinced that a famous 16th-century engraving is the 'world's first photograph'. Welshman Roger Davies also claims to have uncovered a secret code in the artwork, leading him to conclude that...
Textile antenna promises futuristic communications With a simple press on his shirt insignia, the captain of the Star Ship Enterprise could send and receive messages. Now, thanks to the efforts of a Finnish company supported by ESA, this futuristic communication may not be limited to fiction. Th...
Orbital elements: 2009 SC170 Earth MOID = 0.0110 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 316.65879 (2000.0) P Q n 0.58490714 Peri. 325.22610 +0.90163141 +0.43241137 a 1.4160484 Node 9.16652 -0.38287653 +0.80768956 e 0.3024608 Incl. 3.24289 -0.20116253 +0.40082164 P 1.69 H 28.0 G 0.15 U 7 [...
The Iranian army will conduct practice launches of long-range ballistic missiles during large-scale military exercises on November 2-12 in southern Iran.
General Yahya Rahim-Safavi, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said the exercises will involve units of ground forces, t...
Scientists use meteors to investigate climate change and giant waves at the ‘edge of space’
New research radar based in Antarctica is giving scientists the chance to study the highest layer of...