Orbital elements: 2009 LV2 Earth MOID = 0.1595 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 325.68692 (2000.0) P Q n 0.54596635 Peri. 119.38079 +0.91227418 -0.10397049 a 1.4826050 Node 249.08548 +0.01501434 +0.97508354 e 0.5892629 Incl. 25.09413 +0.40930475 +0.19596488 P 1.81 H 22.4 G 0.15 U 9...
Orbital elements: 2009 MA Earth MOID = 0.0589 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 345.70571 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32649408 Peri. 214.66190 +0.65155576 +0.68917984 a 2.0887470 Node 98.27707 -0.60315360 +0.72409720 e 0.5113608 Incl. 18.68496 -0.46008785 +0.02672808 P 3.02 H 21.0 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 04:04:05 (UTC) on Thursday, February 23, 2006, in the Bouvet Island Region, at a depth of 10 km.
Location 54.687°S, 1.867°E
The 230 - 510 metre wide asteroid 2005 MR5 will make a close pass (69.4 Lunar Distances, 0.1784 AU), travelling at 14.20 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th June, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance b...
Need a reason to go camping? Here's a great one. Meade Instruments showed off its new telescope at CES 2009, a 30-pound mean machine makes the night sky come alive. It's astronomy for dummies. The ETX-LS telescope automatically aligns itself to major celestial objects. The device's built-in magne...
Title: Detection of Photometric Variations in the sdBV Star JL 166 Authors: B.N Barlow, B.H. Dunlap, A.E. Lynas-Gray, J.C. Clemens We report the discovery of oscillations in the hot subdwarf B star JL 166 from time-series photometry using the Goodman Spectrograph on the 4.1-m Southern Astrophys...
Title: HD 50844: the new look of Delta Sct stars from CoRoT space photometry Authors: E. Poretti (INAF-OA Brera), E. Michel (LESIA, Meudon), R. Garrido (IAA, Granada), L. Lefevre (LESIA), L. Mantegazza (INAF-OA Brera), M. Rainer (INAF-OA Brera), E. Rodriguez (IAA), K. Uytterhoeven (INAF-OA Bre...
A group of space researchers at the Nagoya University have captured the world's first image of a supernova explosion showing gas spreading toward its poles. The scientists led by astronomer Yasuo Fukui recently took the photo of the explosion in a cluster of stars in the Carina constellation, arou...
Magnetic Super-atoms Discovered Scientists have discovered a 'magnetic superatom', which one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage. Found by a team of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) scientists, t...
An innovative new sky survey, called the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), will utilise the unique tools and services offered by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Centre (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to exp...
The American astronomer Jack Eddy, famed for his studies on the connections between solar activity and terrestrial climate, died last Wednesday in Tucson, Arizona. Read more
A meteorite weighing 260kg will be displayed at the Tuanku Fauziah Museum and Gallery of the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) at its four-day arts and science carnival starting Thursday. Museum director Hasnul Jamal Saidon said apart from the meteorite, other items on display would be gemstones a...
Konark sun temple condition deteriorating Concerns have already been expressed by different quarters in Orissa over the deteriorating condition of the Sun temple in Konark following reports in a section of the local media that stones had fallen from the world-famous monument during a repair wor...
Ancient temple wall discovered, shaped like Andean chakana Ventarrón, a 4000 year old ceremonial site with spectacular murals painted by ancient peoples who lived during the dawn of civilisation, has given up another stunning prize. It had already made news when the site, once used by locals as a g...
