Title: The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores VII: Chemistry and Dynamics in L43 Authors: Jo-Hsin Chen, Neal J. Evans II, Jeong-Eun Lee, Tyler L. Bourke We present results from the Spitzer Space Telescope and molecular line observations of 9 species toward the dark cloud L43. The Spitzer imag...
Title: The binary nature of the Galactic Centre X-ray source CXOGC J174536.1-285638 Authors: J. S. Clark, P. A. Crowther, V. J. Mikles X-ray and near-IR surveys of the central 2x0.8 degrees of the Galactic Centre have revealed a population of X-ray bright massive stars. However, the nature of the e...
Title: Swift monitoring of Cygnus X-2: investigating the NUV-X-ray connection Authors: E. S. Rykoff (UCSB), E. M. Cackett, J. M. Miller (U. Michigan) The neutron star X-ray binary (NSXRB) Cyg X-2 was observed by the Swift satellite 51 times over a 4 month period in 2008 with the XRT, UVOT, and BAT ins...
Orbital elements: 2009 SJ18 Earth MOID = 0.0451 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 87.46264 (2000.0) P Q n 1.06951762 Peri. 172.92712 -0.99347103 -0.11406651 a 0.9469871 Node 0.53594 +0.09107304 -0.80370772 e 0.1090484 Incl. 12.57748 +0.06870967 -0.58398864 P 0.92 H 24.5 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
A Trillion Triangles Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The advance was made possible by a clever technique for multiplying large numbers. The numbers involved are so enormous th...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the world's leading provider of high-power commercial satellites, today announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture Nimiq 5, a new high-power, direct broadcast satellite for Telesat Canada.
Nimiq...
A Burton security guard has claimed he saw an unexplained fireball fall from the sky while he was on duty. James Washington, of Kingston Road, Winshill, told the Mail how he was working in Draycott in the Clay when he saw a strange object in the shape of a fireball fall very fast from the sky at 8.24pm on Fr...
1,000 fossil-hunters come to Bristol The University welcomes delegates attending the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology. Over 1,000 palaeontologists from all over the world will arrive in Bristol, UK, this week to attend an international conference being held at th...
Orbital elements: 2009 SV17 Earth MOID = 0.1572 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 303.72744 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23940929 Peri. 126.17718 -0.01336805 -0.99919944 a 2.5686724 Node 324.53204 +0.89527172 +0.00483388 e 0.5593867 Incl. 3.72591 +0.44531994 -0.03971299 P 4.12 H 19.4 G 0.15 U 9...
Orbital elements: 2009 SX17 Earth MOID = 0.0742 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 332.09047 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27697131 Peri. 58.62899 +0.99689965 -0.07605252 a 2.3308421 Node 305.72521 +0.06107477 +0.90960130 e 0.5390105 Incl. 1.42416 +0.04960811 +0.40846235 P 3.56 H 24.1 G 0.15 U 8 [...
View the autumn sky through the campus observatory's telescope The autumn night sky will be open for perusal using the University of Minnesota, Morris's 16-inch telescope. Jupiter, with its great red spot, will be visible in the southern sky all season, while Uranus and Neptune will peek out on cle...
West Africa: Country Now UN Satellite Support Centre for W/Africa The United Nations has appointed Nigeria's National Space Research and Development Agency as the Regional Support Centre for Outer Space Affairs for West Africa. The mandate of the Centre is to anchor a new United Nations program...
New Schiele exhibit examines the final frontier The vast majority of the universe looks nothing like you'd see peering through your window on a sunny day, said Jim Craig, planetarium director at the Schiele Museum. So to give folks a better glimpse of what they're missing, the Schiele brought in &qu...
Frisco Peak offers a favourable place to study the sky The University of Utah soon will have a presence on a narrow, remote Beaver County mountaintop where scientists can peer deep into the universe spread across a diamond-studded night sky. With the naked eye, "you can see at least 10,000 star...
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