Orbital elements: 2009 QL32 Earth MOID = 0.0262 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 353.14281 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32667122 Peri. 102.03320 -0.07289419 +0.99693949 a 2.0879919 Node 163.70644 -0.94974309 -0.06074141 e 0.6154415 Incl. 5.77915 -0.30442486 -0.04921528 P 3.02 H 24.4 G 0.15 U 9...
Optus announced today it would further expand its satellite fleet providing services to Australia and New Zealand by launching the third D-series satellite. The new satellite will increase Optus' fleet capacity by more than 30 percent. Paul O'Sullivan, Chief Executive of Optus, said the deal sh...
Japanese operator JSAT Corporation has chosen Arianespace to launch its JCSAT-12 communications satellite. Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Kiyoshi Isozaki, President and CEO of JSAT Corporation, signed today in Bangkok the launch Service & Solutions contract for...
South Korean scientists unveiled the mock-up of a rocket designed to send a domestically produced research satellite into orbit next year from the country's spaceport in Goheung, South Jeolla Province. A successful launch from the Naro Space Centre would make Korea the ninth country in the world...
The University of Nebraska at Kearney received almost $129,000 for new telescopes and accessories for its new observatory and $50,000 to equip an industrial distribution laboratory. Both grants were awarded by the University of Nebraska Foundation. The new observatory is under construction a...
A meteorite has been stolen from The Dinosaur Place's gift shop. Workers at the business, a nature activity centre with a retail store, noticed on Monday that the 30-pound chunk of nickel and iron was missing, state police said today. The meteorite is valued at $2,200 and is believed to have been take...
Self-healing system could save rovers When a computer breaks down, human hands have to intervene and fix the problem. When that computer is on Mars, it can be a little more difficult to send help. UA researchers, along with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, have designed a self-healing computer sy...
Kepler Museum opens in Prague A new museum on the life and work of Johannes Kepler has opened in a house where the famous German astronomer lived for five years in the early 17th century in Prague centre today within the opening of an international conference on Kepler's Heritage in the Space Age. [url...
Title: The faint outer regions of the Pegasus Dwarf Irregular galaxy: a much larger and undisturbed galaxy Authors: Alexei Kniazev (1,2), Noah Brosch (3), G. Lyle Hoffman (4), Eva K. Grebel (5), Daniel B. Zucker (6,7,8), Simon A. Pustilnik (9) ((1) SAAO, South Africa; (2) SALT Foundation, South Af...
A number of southeastern Arizona residents reported seeing a bright meteor in the night sky Tuesday, followed by a loud explosion-like sound as it fell to Earth. At his home off of Highway 191, about seven miles south of Interstate 10, Wayne Crane said he saw the shooting star just as it lit up the sky sh...
A magnitude 15.1 supernova, 2009im, was discovered on the 24th August, 2009 by K. Itagaki (Japan) in the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 1355 in the constellation Eridanus. The supernova is located 21" west and 1.6" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (20...
Out walking Monday evening Aug. 24 around 9 p.m., I saw what looked like a fireball passing silently overhead. It looked about basketball size, about 50 to 100 feet up, flaming, and moving about 50 kph or so in an east-northeast direction over our side street at Hill 60 just south of Danforth and furthe...
Star-birth myth 'busted' An international team of researchers has debunked one of astronomy's long held beliefs about how stars are formed, using a set of galaxies found with CSIROs Parkes radio telescope. When a cloud of interstellar gas collapses to form stars, the stars range from massive to mi...
Four hundred years after a Dutch spectacle maker laid claim to inventing the world's first telescope, documents have emerged suggesting a Spaniard may have got there first. Historians generally credit Hans Lipperhey, who lived in the coastal town of Middelburg, with creating the first telescop...
A 19th-century model of the solar system, a telescope ordered by Sydney Observatory for the 1882 transit of Venus and one of only two exact replicas of a telescope designed by Galileo will also be on display. The exhibition starts on September 12. [url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/a...
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