Notre Dame High School have been given a telescope in celebration of the National Year of Astronomy. The telescope, one of 1, 000 being given to schools by the Society for Popular Astronomy, will be used by pupils at Notre Dame High School in Surrey Street, to study the moon and other celestial wonders...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Place and the Monona Terrace invited the public to Planet Trek Fest at Monona Terrace on Saturday, June 20. The event, which will take place between 9 a.m. and noon, kicked off the summer season of the International Year of Astronomy. [url=http://www.new...
The 1500 - 3300 metre wide asteroid 2001 CV26 will make a close pass (9.8 Lunar Distances, 0.0252 AU), travelling at 12.31 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th October, 2009. At closest approach, the asteroid should brighten to magnitude 12.9. [url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=...
An observatory which monitors the potential threat to earth from asteroids has launched a campaign to raise money to install a new telescope. The Spaceguard Centre in Knighton, Powys, has been offered the telescope free of charge by the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. It would mean the centre...
Ars received a lot of interest when we first reviewed the sub-$100 night vision goggles, and the new version of the hardware takes the product in a somewhat new direction. The new goggles are no longer strapped to your head; they are now something resembling a high-tech set of binoculars. You hold the...
If you want to get a brief of the plot of the movie "Impact", then here it is. A large space rock slams on the moon which causes a change in the polarity in the moon, and unlikely, the moon turn towards our planet earth. It is another Hollywood's fascination towards getting earth hit after bein...
Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) G Madhavan Nair on Sunday said that the space organisation is considering a proposal sent by the University of Pune (UoP) students to launch a small satellite "over the next few months" for scientific study purpose. Nair had a brief...
Title: Nature of cyclical changes in the timing residuals from the pulsar B1642-03 Authors: T. V. Shabanova (PRAO) We report an analysis of timing data for the pulsar B1642-03 (J1645-0317) gathered over the 40-year time span between 1969 and 2008. During this interval, the pulsar experienced eig...
Title: A ionised reflecting skin above the accretion disk of GX 349+2 Authors: R. Iaria, A. D'Aí, T. Di Salvo, N. R. Robba (Univ. Palermo), A. Riggio, A. Papitto, L. Burderi (Univ. Cagliari) The broad emission features in the Fe-Kalpha region of X-ray binary spectra represent an invaluable probe to...
Orbital elements: 2009 MW Earth MOID = 0.1118 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 125.41766 (2000.0) P Q n 1.16212864 Peri. 23.07526 -0.32458646 -0.87270235 a 0.8959833 Node 87.51084 +0.80089991 -0.45873308 e 0.3321392 Incl. 21.41269 +0.50319276 +0.16719619 P 0.85 H 20.8 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
After 40 years' reflection, laser moon mirror project is axed US research that began with the first Apollo landing - and helped to prove that the moon is moving away from Earth - is to be axed. An experiment, begun when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left a mirror on the lunar surfa...
Title: Beryllium, Oxygen and Iron Abundances in Extremely Metal-Deficient Stars Authors: Jeffrey A. Rich, Ann Merchant Boesgaard The abundance of beryllium in the oldest, most metal-poor stars acts as a probe of early star formation and Galactic chemical evolution. We have analysed high-reso...
Title: The Thousand Asteroid Light Curve Survey Authors: Joseph Masiero (IfA, Hawaii), Robert Jedicke (IfA, Hawaii), Josef Durech (Ast. Inst., Charles Univ., Prague), Stephen Gwyn (CADC), Larry Denneau (IfA, Hawaii), Jeff Larsen (USNA) We present the results of our Thousand Asteroid Light Cu...
