William K. Hartmann has been named the 2010 winner of the Meteoritical Society's Barringer Medal and Award, which recognises outstanding work in the field of impact cratering. Hartmann, co-founder of the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is an internationally recognised expert on im...
Viewer reports strange sighting in sky over West Lothian An STV viewer has contacted the station with an image of a strange sighting in the sky over Kirknewton in West Lothian. John Brown sent us an email with the image above, which he says was taken on August 23, between 9.45pm and 10pm. [url=http://n...
Slide show: See the cosmos on your computer Highlights from the shuttle Discovery's flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in the June roundup of cosmic pictures Read more
The main-belt asteroid 2009 QD23 was discovered on the 24th August, 2009. ElementValueUncertainty (1-sigma) Units e0.0996802n/aa2.0164188n/aAUq1.8154218n/aAUi16.23071n/adegnode273.49751n/adegperi123.06728n/adegM308.40885n/adegtp2455210.3795050 (2010-Jan-13.87950501)...
Orbital elements: 2009 PT2 Earth MOID = 0.0460 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 302.77618 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45825422 Peri. 95.18240 +0.81296258 -0.57951581 a 1.6662177 Node 300.24607 +0.50469119 +0.75006436 e 0.4489069 Incl. 3.78574 +0.29048003 +0.31869245 P 2.15 H 23.5 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
The inner main-belt asteroid 2009 QB23 was discovered on the 24th August, 2009. ElementValueUncertainty (1-sigma) Units e0.0121448n/aa1.8999670n/aAUq1.8768923n/aAUi26.07921n/adegnode156.74195n/adegperi161.35175n/adegM8.97553n/adegtp2455036.6507291 (2009-Jul-24.150729...
Russia will launch three GLONASS (global navigation satellite system) satellites on 25th December, 2005, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
"We are planning a launch of three satellites of the GLONASS system on December 25, which will bring the number of GLONASS units to...
Scientists have found a new way to time events in the early Solar System. Writing in the journal Science, they describe how aluminium radioisotopes can now offer precise timing of events 4.5 billion years ago. The study shows that the rate of decay of isotopes can now be relied upon to give accurate me...
The 510 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 2003 CR20 will make a close pass (45.9 Lunar Distances, 0.1180 AU), travelling at 19.10 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th September, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distan...
Title: The JANUS X-Ray Flash Monitor Authors: A. D. Falcone, D. N. Burrows, S. Barthelmy, W. Chang, J. Fredley, M. Kelly, R. Klar, D. Palmer, S. Persyn, K. Reichard, P. Roming, E. Seifert, R. W. M. Smith, P. Wood, M. Zugger JANUS is a NASA small explorer class mission which just completed phase A and was...
Well away from land, Typhoon Vamco moved north over the Pacific Ocean on August 20, 2009, gradually building steam. When the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image at 00:05 UTC, the storm had sustained winds of 195 kilometres per hour...
A magnitude 14.9 supernova, 2009ik, was discovered on the 22nd, August, 2009, by B. Monard in the spiral galaxy NGC 4653 in the constellation Virgo. The supernova is located 2" east and 75" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position(2000): RA = 12h43m51s.21...
Netting new physics from a stellar collapse Failed supernovae could provide a strong flux of neutrinos near the detection limit of current observatories Stars more than eight times the mass of our Sun eventually collapse under their own weight, and may explode into spectacular supernovae. The te...
Orbital elements: 2009 QC23 Earth MOID = 0.0126 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 345.26091 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32673480 Peri. 336.68494 +0.57977953 +0.81398804 a 2.0877210 Node 328.71579 -0.73627824 +0.50462013 e 0.5166059 Incl. 3.94934 -0.34892699 +0.28771860 P 3.02 H 25.2 G 0.15 U 7...
