Orbital elements: 2009 HC Earth MOID = 0.0105 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 136.75803 (2000.0) P Q n 0.93025249 Peri. 269.82703 -0.40071940 -0.91581272 a 1.0392870 Node 203.85118 +0.86464832 -0.36838670 e 0.1259340 Incl. 3.78101 +0.30299709 -0.15993216 P 1.06 H 24.8 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Stargazers in Airdrie have branched out to create their own local association independent of umbrella body Astra (the Association in Scotland To Research into Astronautics). They will now be known as Airdrie Astronomical Association following a vote at their annual general meeting, and will co...
Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology (ICP-UAB), directed by professor Salvador Moyą-Solą, published this week in the prestigious US scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the results of their research regarding the findings of a new genu...
A new atlas shows Zimbabwe, Russia's Kola Peninsula and Quebec, Canada, as next-door neighbours - as they were 2.5 billion years ago. The map could reveal the location of valuable mineral deposits. "We're completing the plate tectonic revolution" - Richard Ernst, a geology consultan...
A possible magnitude 15.7 supernova was discovered on the 1st June, 2009, in the barred spiral galaxy NGC846 in the constellation Andromeda. The supernova is located 36" West and 11" South from the center of the galaxy. The last recorded supernova in the galaxy was SN 2003ja. Position...
If you want a real LCARS system, a Star Trek-style GUI: large clock, cal., games, text editor, maps, animations, file manager, Web-page viewer, media players, calc., unit converter, utils., reference library, sims., for a TrueColour Win 9x or DOS-only laptop with std. graphics card & Sou...
The redefinition of Quaternary, Pleistocene, Neogene, and Pliocene is now under discussion by full commission of ICS. The voting will take place soon. Source Ed ~ The final committee vote was announced on the 21...
A Swiss amateur astronomer claimed Wednesday that he has discovered two new asteroids among the hundreds of thousands between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The asteroids identified by Jose De Queiroz have a diameter of between 1 kilometre and 2 kilometres, said a statement Mirasteilas observat...
The mystery of Narberth's UFO sightings has been solved. It seems the sighting was in fact of earthly origin: the mysterious lights were in fact Chinese flying lanterns that had been launched by Graham Dyer of North Mead, Narberth (West Wales). [url=http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/44...
The discovery of a new comet, C/2009 F5 (McNaught), was announced by Rob H. McNaught (Siding Spring Survey) on the 20th March, 2009. With its discovery, Rob McNaught now has a total of 48 comet discoveries accredited to him. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passag...
The new comet, C/2009 E1 (Itagaki), was discovered by amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki (Takanezawa, Japan) on the 14th March, 2009. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 7th April, 2009 at a distance of approximately 0.6 AU from the Sun. The comet coul...
UFO OVER IRANClick to Play | View DetailsEd ~ This was probably debris from the KOSMOS 854 satellite which re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 19th September 1976.
Dozens of people have reported seeing UFOs hovering above Merseyside. They claimed to have seen glowing orange lights moving slowly across the sky between 10.30pm and 11pm on Sunday evening. Liverpool-born UFO expert John Rimmer said it was a "rule of thumb" that mysterious lights in t...
A Brooklyn couple will become the first on the planet to say "I do" in zero gravity when they tie the knot later this month. Self-confessed sci-fi addicts Noah Fulmore, 31, and Erin Finnegan, 30, will travel to the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to exchange their vows while l...
