Title: The enormous outer Galaxy HII region CTB 102 Authors: K. Arvidsson, C. R. Kerton, T. Foster We present new radio recombination line observations of the previously unstudied HII region CTB 102. Line parameters are extracted and physical parameters describing the gas are calculated. We est...
Orbital elements: 2009 MX Earth MOID = 0.1111 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 357.14049 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47103746 Peri. 170.46167 -0.00535706 +0.94007585 a 1.6359339 Node 98.65558 -0.93870035 +0.11278962 e 0.3125071 Incl. 20.17269 -0.34469255 -0.32176993 P 2.09 H 23.0 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Title: SDSS J210014.12+004446.0 - dwarf nova with negative and positive superhumps Authors: A. Olech, A. Rutkowski, A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny We report the results of 67h of CCD photometry of the recently discovered dwarf nova SDSS J210014.12+004446.0. The data were obtained on 24 nights spann...
MEASAT Satellite Systems, of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has signed a contract with Orbital Sciences to purchase one GEO comsat.
The satellite, which will be based on Orbital's industry-leading STAR satellite platform, will be called MEASAT-1R and will be launch...
Hailed as the "man who gave credibility back to space opera", British writer Alastair Reynolds has signed a 10-book deal worth £1m, it was announced tonight , in one of science fiction's biggest-ever contracts. Reynolds, a former astronomer from south Wales, said he was "amazed a...
Month may become dimmest on record Since the sun virtually disappeared on June 5, hidden behind an impenetrable pall of cement-coloured clouds, Robert Skilling has tracked each overcast moment, anticipation building with each grey afternoon. Peering out at the gloom from his perch at the Blue Hi...
While most of the Metroplex was asleep early Monday a fireball shot across the sky, startling those who were still awake. Austin Babek said he and a friend saw the fireball at 12:56 a.m. He said it lasted about five seconds and was bright orange with a long blue and green tail. [url=http://www.star-te...
Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere - but no longer. A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government...
Fauré's "Requiem" is playing in the background, followed by the Kronos Quartet. Every so often the music is interrupted by an electromechanical arpeggio - like a jazz riff on a clarinet - as the motors guiding the telescope spin up and down. A night of galaxy gazing is about to begin at the V...
Orbital elements: 2008 QD4 Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 342.57697 (2000.0) P Q n 0.04027794 Peri. 68.78363 +0.53199596 -0.82807688 a 8.4286471 Node 344.68205 +0.27692607 +0.36750218 e 0.3543984 Incl. 42.01829 +0.80018263 +0.42335662 P 24.47 H 11.3 G 0.15 U 2 [url=http://www.cf...
Matariki - Mori new year celebration In the final days of May each year, a cluster of tiny stars intermittently twinkles as it rises on the north east horizon. To astronomers this constellation is known as Pleiades but to the Mori people of New Zealand, it is Matariki - a celestial signal of an ending an...
NASA criticised for sticking to imperial units NASA's decision to engineer its replacement for the space shuttle using imperial measurement units rather than metric could derail efforts to develop a globalised civilian space industry, says a leading light in the nascent commercial spacefligh...
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