Orbital elements: 2009 QT Earth MOID = 0.0713 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 349.97366 (2000.0) P Q n 0.57939417 Peri. 325.90967 +0.26492161 +0.95237908 a 1.4250167 Node 318.86867 -0.82562362 +0.14315165 e 0.2593278 Incl. 13.26795 -0.49815879 +0.26922423 P 1.70 H 23.2 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Orbital elements: 2009 QS Earth MOID = 0.0410 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 357.91592 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33999535 Peri. 287.25327 -0.27308274 +0.95889937 a 2.0330781 Node 326.59049 -0.82088712 -0.27404246 e 0.5786444 Incl. 8.04474 -0.50156770 -0.07357121 P 2.90 H 22.1 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
The Big Wave Model is based upon an analogy to the physics of neutron scattering by a nucleus. The incoming neutron is represented by a plane wave, which is decomposed into spherical Bessel function components to match the Center-of Mass system of the two particles. The Schrodinger Wave Equations a...
A fragment of moon rock arrived in South Africa, on Monday morning, when South African Airways (SAA) first officer Arthur Phaswana landed the plane carrying a piece of lunar rock from the science and space research centre Nasa.
The 110-gram Apollo 17 Lunar Sample 70215, 41 (007) from Houston-b...
Lines blur between planet and full-blown star Pluto huggers and haters may hog the spotlight, but there's another debate on the bigger end of the planetary scale. Astronomers have in recent years uncovered super-massive objects that blur the boundary between planet and full-blown star. The comp...
Orbital elements: 2009 QO Earth MOID = 0.2842 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 329.32023 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30876261 Peri. 112.80879 +0.99309758 +0.08296865 a 2.1679682 Node 242.51851 -0.10729942 +0.92812463 e 0.4130477 Incl. 5.36217 +0.04737113 +0.36290614 P 3.19 H 19.4 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
NASA to use Lackland as stopover Team Lackland will once again support the NASA Space Program by allowing the space shuttle to stopover here while on its trek home to Cape Canaveral at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Before Kelly Air Force Base closed in 2001, the airfield was the most frequent stop i...
World's largest solar energy base station cluster set up in Tibet China Mobile (CM), the country's leading telecommunication operator, has established the world's largest solar energy-powered base station cluster in Tibet Autonomous Region, following a four-year construction. By the end of...
Meteor sweeps the Belgian night sky On Saturday night at around 10 pm, many people in Belgium witnessed a ball of fire sweeping through the night sky. This was nothing less that a real meteor, said the public observatory, Urania, who watched this "spectacular" phenomenon. [url=http://...
Orbital elements: 2009 PA3 Earth MOID = 0.0101 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 0.08162 (2000.0) P Q n 0.60667527 Peri. 109.25089 -0.47553677 +0.87652158 a 1.3819697 Node 132.12288 -0.84018462 -0.42738836 e 0.4379698 Incl. 5.77746 -0.26068101 -0.22147035 P 1.62 H 25.3 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL), today announced that it has been chosen by Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), Hong Kong, to build AsiaSat 5, a new generation communications satellite designe...
Work on the development, manufacturing and launching of China's first satellite for a foreign buyer is going on smoothly as scheduled.
Wang Haibo, president of the China Great Wall Industry Corp., said preliminary designs of the project passed the evaluation of a panel of experts representi...
Like celestial buses, you wait 160 years for a new asteroid and then two come along at once. Raheny, Dublin-based amateur astronomer David Grennan has discovered a new asteroid following a couple of nights' observation last week which involved looking for moving objects against the fixed backgro...