Orbital elements: 2009 OG PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0408 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 338.98545 (2000.0) P Q n 0.19955873 Peri. 113.60284 +0.20977482 -0.78454910 a 2.9001618 Node 309.41430 +0.35836968 +0.61694658 e 0.8683309 Incl. 49.04913 +0.90970638 -0.06212587 P 4.94 H 16.1 G 0.1...
Atomium at 50 continues attracting visitors At first glance the Atomium looks like an UFO. The monument's nine, oversized metal spheres are not that pretty, but they have fascinated visitors for 50 years. More than anything else, Atomium's structure excites visitors. It stretches 102 metres int...
Space radar techniques for land mapping Entrepreneurs at ESA's Business Incubation centre in the Netherlands have used radar technology from the agency's Envisat remote-sensing satellite to develop a compact, high-resolution radar that can monitor land and buildings from small aircraft. Th...
For five years, the white fibreglass dome atop Dover-Sherborn High School has served upper-level astronomy students as a unique portal to the stars. Literally. Housed within this rooftop structure is a 12-inch Cassegrain telescope that is programmed to locate hundreds of astral entities in the...
RazakSAT, Malaysia's second micro-satellite will be blasted into space from Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands by the end of the year. Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Datuk Prof Dr Mohd Ruddin Ab Ghani said the satellite would be launched by the Falcon-1...
Orbital elements: 2009 ND1 Earth MOID = 0.2821 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 315.98698 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20642176 Peri. 288.44756 +0.87102473 -0.45239509 a 2.8355179 Node 98.83121 +0.49107797 +0.79190319 e 0.5774247 Incl. 11.17176 +0.01258325 +0.41015608 P 4.77 H 16.8 G 0.15 U 8 [...
Orange lights in the night sky have been reported in Southeast Missouri once again. H.B. Rice said he was with four people sitting around a friend's pool in Chaffee, Mo., Wednesday night when they saw a bright orange light in the eastern sky moving from the south to the northeast. [url=http://www.se...
Title: The Cepheid Impostor HD 18391 and its Anonymous Parent Cluster Authors: David G. Turner, V. V. Kovtyukh, Daniel J. Majaess, David J. Lane, Kathleen E. Moncrieff New and existing photometry for the G0 Ia supergiant HD 18391 is analysed in order to confirm the nature of the variability previou...
Kowsar-1 (K1) Observatory is the most modern amateur observatory in Iran and the most famous Iranian observatory in the world. This remote control observatory is a common project between HRC and Shirin Nam trading company. HRC Astronomy Department is manager of this project. K1 building struct...
Orbital elements: Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 T 2009 June 14.35407 TT MPC q 1.3770083 (2000.0) P Q n 0.10550741 Peri. 96.30608 +0.78771771 -0.60134579 a 4.4355494 Node 300.74276 +0.48558276 +0.73968856 e 0.6895518 Incl. 8.95143 +0.37909127 +0.30206635 P 9.34[url=http://www.cfa....
The magnitude 13.5 asteroid (790) Pretoria will occult the magnitude 10 star TYC 2255-01354-1 in the constellation Pegasus, on the 19th July, 2009. The stars brightness should dim by 3.5 magnitudes for about 16 seconds. The event will be visible from the Canada, Central America and the Caribbea...
Two University of Hawaii at Mânoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral student Rita Mann and Dr. Jonathan Williams used the Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea, Hawaii...
United Space Alliance is planning to lay off about 400 employees later this year, including about 160 in Houston, according to a company spokeswoman. Read more
Nature has provided five huge rest stops far out in space for the convenience of spacecraft travelling from Earth. Some NASA folks call them "parking lots" in space. They're unusual locations where gravity loses its pull and a spaceship can loiter, rather like a marble at the bottom of a c...
UN's "outer space people" tackle asteroids, climate They call them the "people in outer space". But besides stopping extra-terrestrial arms races, this tiny UN office has very down-to-earth goals: to help poor countries develop crops and help manage natural disasters. O...
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