The 23 - 52 metre wide asteroid 2005 CN61 will make a close pass (64.9 Lunar Distances, 0.1666 AU), travelling at 7.85 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st July, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance be...
A magnitude 18.2 Type Ia supernova, 2008ha, was discovered on the 7th November, 2008, by Caroline K. Moore and Jack Newton in the irregular galaxy UGC 12682 in the constellation Pegasus. The supernova is located 12" west and 0".5 south from the centre of the galaxy. Position(2000): R.A....
Brooklyn-born jewellery designer Paris Kain doesn't limit himself to his precious, unusual line, Abraxas Rex - the oft-tapped runway collaborator is also a photographer, painter, and filmmaker. (His upcoming documentary, 008, is based on the life of his father, a former CIA assassin.) Launche...
The 31 - 70 metre wide asteroid 2005 ER70 will make a close pass (72.5 Lunar Distances, 0.1863 AU), travelling at 9.94 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th July, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance be...
Orbital elements: 2009 LX Earth MOID = 0.1129 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 353.91125 (2000.0) P Q n 0.19173584 Peri. 350.31743 +0.56130604 +0.81214636 a 2.9785200 Node 313.62256 -0.74384105 +0.41072256 e 0.6223086 Incl. 12.70666 -0.36281678 +0.41439747 P 5.14 H 19.4 G 0.15 U 8 [...
SAT LaunchClick to Play | View Details Video footage of the graduate class SAT balloon at the University of Nebraska-Omaha (UNO) that was launched on July 11, 2009 from Valley, Nebraska. After reaching the upper atmosphere, the balloon "landed" in a tree near Villisca, Iowa.
Asteroid spotted two years ago named after Yushan NCU vice president Liu Gin-rong told a press conference that the IAU had passed the proposal to name the asteroid "Yushan." The asteroid is the first to be named after a Taiwanese mountain, in addition to its permanent serial number, No. 1...
Experts say a meteor is probably responsible for strange coloured lights appearing in the sky above north and central Queensland yesterday. Residents from Proserpine, Moranbah and Mackay all reported seeing coloured lights moving across the sky on a flat angle about sunrise. [url=http://www....
Orbital elements: 2009 NL Earth MOID = 0.0856 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 2.56394 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21126554 Peri. 112.09976 -0.39531950 +0.90231147 a 2.7920098 Node 133.41610 -0.90560754 -0.35156341 e 0.6759677 Incl. 13.69068 -0.15361470 -0.24947383 P 4.67 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Archaeologists from Geneva University have discovered what they claim is Africa's oldest ceramic, dated at around 9,400BC, in eastern Mali. "It's a tiny, ornate fragment that was made with great skill and the use of fire" - ethno-archaeologist Anne Mayor in Bamako, the Malian capital...
Title: SBS 0335-052E+W: deep VLT/FORS+UVES spectroscopy of the pair of the lowest-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxies Authors: Y.I. Izotov (1 and 2), N.G. Guseva (1 and 2), K.J. Fricke (3 and 2), P. Papaderos (4 and 5) ((1) Main Astronomical Observatory, Kyiv, Ukraine, (2) Max-Planck-Insti...
A SL-14 Rocket body that was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome LC32, on 24th December 2004, on the SICH-1M and MK-1TS satellite missions, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 14th July, 2009 @ 07:25 GMT ± 48 hours. TLE Data pre>SL-14 RB 1 28506U 04052B 09191.67980686 .0114504...
Title: Massive star formation and feedback in W49A: The source of our Galaxy's most luminous water maser outflow Authors: Nathan Smith, Barbara A. Whitney, Peter S. Conti, Chris G. De Pree, James M. Jackson We present high spatial resolution mid-IR images of the ring of UCHII regions in W49A obtain...
Orbital elements: 2009 NH Earth MOID = 0.1206 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 331.01052 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29343439 Peri. 219.29050 +0.99379323 -0.08158657 a 2.2428249 Node 145.16560 +0.10043438 +0.95033550 e 0.5093256 Incl. 7.60769 -0.04783251 +0.30034325 P 3.36 H 18.5 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Hurricane Carlos is heading west over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean and is expected to get stronger. The Category 1 hurricane has maximum sustained winds near 85 mph. But forecasters say Carlos is expected to strengthen and could become a major hurricane over the next day or two. [url=http://...
