Peter van de Kamp Telescope DedicationClick to Play | View Details Swarthmore's new 24"-telescope is named for Peter van de Kamp, a beloved astronomy professor who influenced generations of students during his 35 years on the faculty. A native of Holland, van de Kamp was known as much for his w...
The Shanghai Botanical Garden has started an investigation into what has been described as a prehistoric meteorite yesterday in response to questions over its authenticity. The garden will try to trace a businessman surnamed Yin, who donated the stone in 1997, said the garden's Li Xuemei. If it ca...
Orbital elements: 2008 OG19 Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 359.76404 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00179156 Peri. 133.46372 +0.46932991 +0.88085423 a 67.1401503 Node 164.19256 -0.86147522 +0.47213149 e 0.4234007 Incl. 13.12326 -0.19388111 +0.03446264 P 550 H 5.9 G 0.15 U 6 [url=http://www.cf...
A possible magnitude 16.4 supernova was discovered on the 9th June, 2009, in the (SBc) barred spiral galaxy NGC5967 in the constellation Apus. The supernova is roughly located 25" East and 25" South from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA 15 48 22.79, Dec -75 40 47.8z = 0.010...
In a scientific keynote address on Friday, June 12 at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, James Symons, Director of Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division (NSD), discusses the exciting research prospects of the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) to be built at MSU's Nationa...
Orbital elements: 2009 LQ PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0423 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 330.63321 (2000.0) P Q n 0.51797652 Peri. 244.12333 +0.99603544 +0.02585691 a 1.5355454 Node 114.29538 +0.00662030 +0.93262508 e 0.5893575 Incl. 5.35850 -0.08871061 +0.35991926 P 1.90 H 21.8 G 0.15...
The world’s largest builder of marine vessels is now looking skyward, with a plan to build South Korea’s first space rocket launching pad. Hyundai Heavy Industries said Monday that it has won the contract to build a rocket launching platform at the [url=http://space.go.kr/epage01_01.htm]Naro...
A magnitude 14.7 supernova, 2009gb, was discovered by The CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch (CHASE) on the 9th June, 2009, in the galaxy ESO 447-37 in the constellation Centaurus. The supernova is roughly located 11" West and 20" South from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is un...
Archaeologists working amid the smog and din of Mexico City may be on the verge of unlocking an extraordinary time capsule. The leaders of a team exploring a site opened up by earthquake damage believe that they have found the first tomb of an Aztec ruler. If they are right the site may yield one of the gr...
Several Fayette County teenagers brought home prestigious awards from the 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Ben Nosarzewski earned second place in physics and astronomy ($1,500 prize) and will have an asteroid named after him by the MIT Lincoln (Near Earth) Observatory. S...
Theoretical physicists Alexey Ponomarev, Peter Hänggi, and colleagues at the University of Augsburg, Germany, have proposed designs for a quantum-mechanical electric motor. Their motor consists of two ultracold atoms trapped in a ring of laser light. One atom has a electron missing and is el...
Title: A low luminosity state in the massive X-ray binary SAX J0635+0533 Authors: Sandro Mereghetti, Nicola La Palombara (INAF-IASF Milano) The X-ray pulsar SAX J0635+0533 was repeatedly observed with the XMM-Newton satellite in 2003-2004. The precise localisation provided by these observa...
Title: The young, tight and low mass binary TWA22AB: a new calibrator for evolutionary models ? Orbit, spectral types and temperatures determination Authors: M. Bonnefoy, G. Chauvin, C. Dumas, A-M. Lagrange, H. Beust, M. Desort, R. Texeira, C. Ducourant, J-L. Beuzit, I. Song Tight binaries disc...
Astronomers Predict Birth of a New Star A pair of astrophysicists has predicted the birth of a star, by saying that "the inevitable future of the starless cloud Barnard 68" is to collapse and give rise to a new star. The astrophysicists are Joao Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observator...
