Divers recover large rock from Sylvan Lake A rock. A very large rock. Make it a rock with a hole drilled through it and a yellow nylon rope attached. Thats what divers pulled from the bottom of Sylvan Lake earlier this month in an attempt to put to rest mysteries surrounding the lake in Forest Lake and a Ju...
Ukraine plans to launch Tsyklon-4 rocket from Brazilian territory in 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has confirmed that Ukraine's Tsyklon (Cyclone)-4 launch vehicle will blast off from Brazil's Alcantara space centre in 2010. [url=http://www.kyivpost.com/world/49240]Read m...
A ULA Atlas 5 rocket (AV-018) in a 401 vehicle configuration is scheduled to launch the "PAN" satellite for the U.S. Government at 21:35 GMT, 8th September, 2009, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch window extends for 2 hours ten minutes. Details about the two ton satellite are cla...
A prominent NASA scientist from Silver Spring has been charged in federal court in Maryland with using his position for the financial benefit of his wife, who owns a company that develops science exhibits and educational tools. Mark R. Schoeberl, an atmospheric scientist who has worked at the Godd...
ESA Tests Mini Gyro Sensor For Sentinel 3 The European Space Agency (ESA) is testing a miniature solid-state gyro sensor that it says will be the smallest ever flown in space. The sugar cube-sized gyro uses microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), a technology already widely used in the automobile...
Orbital elements: 2009 RZ3 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0288 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 309.99028 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26178829 Peri. 112.59140 -0.22390331 -0.95187665 a 2.4201145 Node 344.76390 +0.29448984 +0.13861782 e 0.7049252 Incl. 52.78352 +0.92905492 -0.27334216 P 3.76 H 18.7 G 0....
Stargazing student Bruno Bertullo had a wish come true when what he believes to be a meteorite landed in his grandmother's back garden. He ran down to the garden in Blackford Road, Sparkhill, where he discovered an unusual looking rock. "I tried to touch it but it was very hot so I ran back into the...
ICBMs have been, and continue to be, an essential element of the United States strategic global strike equation. In honour of the 50th ICBM Anniversary, Air Force Space Command public affairs, interviewed four space pioneers in efforts to portray their perspective when the ICBM program was young...
Title: Optical and X-ray Observations of M31N 2007-12b: An Extragalactic Recurrent Nova with a Detected Progenitor? Authors: M. F. Bode (1), M. J. Darnley (1), A. W. Shafter (2), K. L. Page (3), O. Smirnova (4), G. C. Anupama (5), T. Hilton (1) ((1) Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John M...
Title: Infrared Studies of Molecular Shocks in the Supernova Remnant HB 21: II. Thermal Admixture of Shocked H_2 Gas in the South Authors: Jong-Ho Shinn, Bon-Chul Koo, Michael G. Burton, Ho-Gyu Lee, Dae-Sik Moon (Version v2) We present near- and mid-infrared observations on the shock-cloud inte...
Title: The fast declining Type Ia supernova 2003gs, and evidence for a significant dispersion in near-infrared absolute magnitudes of fast decliners at maximum light Authors: Kevin Krisciunas, G. H. Marion, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Guillaume Blanc, Filomena Bufano, Pablo Candia, Regis Cartier...
Title: Spectral modelling of 1 ES 1218+30.4 Authors: M. Rüger, F. Spanier, K. Mannheim We employ a time-dependent synchrotron-self-Compton code for modelling contemporaneous multiwavelength data of the blazar 1 ES 1218+30.4 The input parameters of the model are used to infer physical paramet...