Akshai, an American born boy of Indian origin, will have the an asteroid named after him. The Ceres Connection, a programme of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Lincoln Laboratory, which names minor planets after top finishers, has decided to name an asteroid after Akshai in the recentl...
Orbital elements: 2009 KK PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0004 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 338.88901 (2000.0) P Q n 0.51900811 Peri. 246.41499 +0.65699971 +0.69446739 a 1.5335100 Node 68.06311 -0.52321969 +0.70019679 e 0.4652885 Incl. 18.43750 -0.54276380 +0.16564871 P 1.90 H 20.3 G 0.15...
The 36 - 80 metre wide asteroid 2002 LR24 will make a close pass (29.4 Lunar Distances, 0.0756 AU), travelling at 10.88 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th June, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance b...
A possible magnitude 16.2 supernova has been discovered on the 8th June 2009, in the face-on spiral galaxy NGC7678 in the constellation Pegasus. The supernova is located 15 West and 26 South from the center of the galaxy. Two previous supernovae were discovered in the galaxy; SN 2002dp, on the 18t...
The exact origin of the telescope is uncertain. People have commonly accepted that the first refracting telescope was created in the Netherlands in 1608, in 2008, the BBC reported on research in the magazine History Today that suggested that early models may have actually been made in Spain.Histo...
Solar Telescope Reaches 120,000 Feet on Jumbo-Jet-Sized Balloon In a landmark test flight, the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a team of research partners this month successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet, borne by a balloon larger than a Boein...
Fog lifted on 'dark' gamma-ray bursts, mysterious counterparts to bursts with an afterglow Study shows most 'dark' bursts are normal bursts occurring in dusty regions of galaxies Gamma-ray bursts, with their ability to pierce through gas and dust to shine brightly across the universe, are revea...
Moon Magic: Researchers Develop New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses Researchers at Rensselaer have developed a new method for using computer graphics to simulate and render an accurate visualization of a lunar eclipse. The model uses celestial geometry of the sun, Earth, and moon,...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is scheduled to confer a medal June 9 on an astronomy professor at National Central University (NCU) in recognition of his achievements on a Saturn exploration space project. Ip Wing-huen, a professor at NCU's Graduate Institute of A...
A possible magnitude 16.8 supernova was discovered on the 28th April, 2009, in the face-on Spiral galaxy NGC3905 in the constellation Crater. The supernova is located 12 West and 3 North from the centre of the galaxy. The distance is 85.5 mpc. Position(2000): RA 11 49 04.11, Dec -09 43 44.9 A super...
NGC 3918 is a bright planetary nebula in the constellation Centaurus, that is called the "Blue Planetary" or "The Southerner". It is the brightest of the far southern planetary nebula NGC 3918 was discovered by Sir John Herschel in March 1834, and in easily visible in a small t...
Sean Danaher, a Professor in Engineering in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, will use his inaugural professorial lecture to describe his personal journey of measuring the universe. His lecture will be held at 6pm on Wednesday 17 June in lecture theatre 003, School o...
Orbital elements: 2009 KL2 Earth MOID = 0.1595 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 330.05133 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30037546 Peri. 166.07247 +0.93828455 +0.34538572 a 2.2081391 Node 173.63317 -0.33095339 +0.91186514 e 0.4727351 Incl. 9.43981 -0.10045870 +0.22183479 P 3.28 H 17.6 G 0.15 U 7 [...
Title: The jet of the BL Lac object PKS 0521 -365 in the near-IR : MAD adaptive optics observations Authors: R. Falomo, E. Pian, A. Treves, G. Giovannini, T. Venturi, A. Moretti, C. Arcidiacono, J. Farinato, R. Ragazzoni, E. Diolaiti, M. Lombini, F. Tavecchio, R. Brast, E. Marchetti, S. Tordo BL Lac o...
Title: Search for Cosmic-Ray Antiparticles with Balloon-borne Experiments Authors: Ph. von Doetinchem, H. Gast, St. Schael This work discusses the prospects of antiparticle flux measurements with the proposed PEBS detector. The project foresees long duration balloon flights at one of Earth...
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