Per fortuna non ha colpito nessuno ed è finito in un campo di grano il meteorite trovato a Arvorezinha, nello stato brasiliano di Rio Grande de Sul: lungo 50 centimetri e alto 24 centimetri, l'oggetto giunto dal cielo pesa tre volte tanto una pietra di analoghe dimensioni ed è stato inviato in Canada p...
Telespazio company (Rome), subsidiary of the Group Finmeccanica (Milan) / Thales (Toulouse), specialised in the observation of the ground by satellite and navigation, gained the contract of manufacture of a spy satellite ordered by the Turkish Ministry of Defence. [url=http://www.panarmen...
A group of hunters aboard a small boat out of the tiny Alaska village of Wainwright were the first to spot what would eventually be called "the blob." It was a dark, floating mass stretching for miles through the Chukchi Sea, a frigid and relatively shallow expanse of Arctic Ocean water bet...
A Russian Rokot launch vehicle has successfully launched three Kosmos military satellites, , from the Plesetsk space centre in northwest Russian. The Rokot launch vehicle is a converted two-stage RS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile. The new satellites will join the of missile early war...
2018: Return To The Moon - Orbiter Space Flight SimulatorClick to Play | View Details The Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) was NASA's planned manned spacecraft intended to carry human crews from Earth into space and back again from 2012 on. The CEV would be launched into earth orbit by the Crew Launch V...
Astronauts' food has come on by giant leaps and bounds since the first manned missions 40 years ago today, man moonwalked for the first time. The world gazed agog at black and white heavens or monochrome tellies, and shared the age-defining moment. Boldly the going, final the frontier, conquered th...
New research into a snake cult that lived in the mountains near Masafi during the Iron Age will be presented next week at the world's leading conference on Arabian archaeology. Initial excavations at the Al Bithnah site, between 2000 and 2004, indicated that it had been the meeting place for a religi...
Chinese scientists have shown off a prototype Moon rover that could lead to the country's first unmanned mission to the lunar surface in 2012. The 1.5m high, 200kg rover should transmit video in real time, dig into and analyse soil, and produce 3D images of the lunar surface. [url=http://news.bbc....
A weakening tropical storm Molave whirled into southern China today, drenching the region with heavy rains after leaving at least five people dead in the Philippines. The storm began to weaken as it hit land in the boomtown of Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, early Sunday. Molave's wind s...
A magnitude 14.7 supernova, 2009hm, was discovered on the 17th July, 2009, by S. Parker and B. Monard in the spiral galaxy NGC 7083 in the constellation Indus. The supernova is located 2" west and 13" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA = 21h...
The 260 - 580 metre wide asteroid 2008 ER7 will make a close pass (44.8 Lunar Distances, 0.1151 AU), travelling at 22.47 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st July, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance b...
Crater named after Kiwi artist Celebrated Kiwi painter Frances Hodgkins has joined Beethoven, Hemingway and Rembrandt - by having a crater on Mercury named after her. The Hodgkins crater is among 16 discovered by Nasa's Messenger spacecraft last October. All such landforms on the closest planet...
Orbital elements: 2008 CJ116 Earth MOID = 0.1962 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 297.40032 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42649513 Peri. 44.44418 +0.93339438 -0.34567535 a 1.7479406 Node 335.28897 +0.22987041 +0.78212938 e 0.3391137 Incl. 13.32540 +0.27556218 +0.51844207 P 2.31 H 19.1 G 0.15 U...
