Derrick Pitts of Philadelphia's Franklin InstituteClick to Play | View Details Lead Astronomer Derrick Pitts talks about the telescope in the Bloom Observatory.
Orbital elements: 2009 KR21 Earth MOID = 0.0012 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 349.32711 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39759184 Peri. 243.07155 +0.67123222 +0.74025179 a 1.8316581 Node 69.14511 -0.66467635 +0.62401673 e 0.5486738 Incl. 2.35510 -0.32810463 +0.25026068 P 2.48 H 26.4 G 0.15 U 7 [...
Title: A New Technique for Determining Europium Abundances in Solar-Metallicity Stars Authors: Kathryn M. G. Peek (Version v2) We present a new technique for measuring the abundance of europium, a representative r-process element, in solar-metallicity stars. Our algorithm compares LTE synt...
Title: The supergiant fast X-ray transient IGRJ18483-0311 in quiescence: XMM-Newton, Swift, and Chandra observations Authors: A. Giunta, E. Bozzo, F. Bernardini, G. Israel, L. Stella, M. Falanga, S. Campana, A. Bazzano, A.J. Dean, M. Mendez IGR J18483-0311 was discovered with INTEGRAL in 200...
Next week, Iran is to launch the country's first homemade satellite, named Omid (meaning, Hope), aboard a Iranian Kavoshgar-1 carrier rocket, stationed at Iran's new space centre, in northern Semnan province. The Kavoshgar-1 carrier rocket closely resembles the Iranian Shahab-3 missile. Th...
Title: Micromegas micro-TPC for direct Dark Matter search with MIMAC Authors: F. Mayet (1), O. Guillaudin (1), C. Grignon (1), C. Koumeir (1), D. Santos (1), P. Colas (2), I. Giomataris (2) ((1) LPSC Grenoble, (2) CEA Saclay) The MIMAC project is a multi-chamber detector for Dark Matter search, aim...
Orbital elements: 2009 KN4 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0111 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 340.31434 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33582755 Peri. 35.88902 +0.96126279 +0.24600148 a 2.0498646 Node 309.38740 -0.27513892 +0.82937243 e 0.5466027 Incl. 9.25699 -0.01650533 +0.50162202 P 2.93 H 18.0 G 0.15...
V5582 Sagittarii = Nova Sagittarii 2009 No. 2. Nova Sagittarii 2009 No. 2. was Discovery by G. Sun and X. Gao in China. The discovery magnitude was approximately11.5 on the 23rd February, 2009. This nova is this year's second nova in Sagittarius. Position (2000): RA = 17h 45m 05.40s. Dec = -20° 03' 21....
1608 The earliest known working telescopes are credited to Hans Lippershey. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece 1609 Galileo improves the telescope and begins using it for astronomy, starting with lunar observations 1611 G...
The Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) on Friday launched a rocket to test the facilities at the Alcantara Launching Centre, the AEB said. The launching, which took place on Friday afternoon, was "a complete success", AEB said in a statement. The mission was code-named Maracati 1 under a part...
Putting the Universe into our computers' is one way to describe some of the work carried out at ESAC. But ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre, is also where scientists prepare satellite missions and where data are archived and made available on the internet. [url=http://www.esa.int/esaCP...
Orbital elements: 2009 KL8 Earth MOID = 0.0125 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 351.03114 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43973199 Peri. 222.48289 +0.47246929 +0.87092371 a 1.7126844 Node 76.12765 -0.76660873 +0.48175569 e 0.4711872 Incl. 8.00197 -0.43483770 +0.09697088 P 2.24 H 24.1 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Comet C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN) was discovered by Rob Matson on ultraviolet SWAN images taken by the SOHO satellite on the 29th March, 2009. The comet is estimated to be at magnitude 10.7 and located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The comet was also independently discovered on the 26th March, 2009 by...
Exhibits, activities mark Goddard's 50th If there's a would-be astronaut or astronomer in your house (or even a "coulda-been"), they will find a lot to do today in downtown Baltimore as the Goddard Space Flight Centre celebrates its 50th anniversary and five decades of space science in...
True muonium, a long-theorised but never-seen atom, might be observed in future experiments, thanks to recent theoretical work by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Arizona State University. True muonium was first theorised more than 50 years a...
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