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Orbital elements: 2009 KN Earth MOID = 0.4347 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 26.62639 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20671362 Peri. 84.56943 -0.38019134 -0.47606511 a 2.8328483 Node 64.02702 -0.08277980 -0.83640537 e 0.6502220 Incl. 61.89281 +0.92119599 -0.27163959 P 4.77 H 20.4 G 0.15 U 9 [url...

Sarah Eberle, designer of "600 Days with Bradstone," consulted with ESA human spaceflight experts to perfect her award-winning garden. Her garden, intended to realistically model what might be used in a future human habitation on Mars, won a Gold Medal last week at the Chelsea Flower...

Orbital elements: 2009 KL Earth MOID = 0.0171 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 27.09280 (2000.0) P Q n 0.34912417 Peri. 307.52986 -0.97958536 -0.18552770 a 1.9974815 Node 221.93797 +0.20059853 -0.92729252 e 0.5920562 Incl. 6.65114 -0.01314344 -0.32512776 P 2.82 H 23.7 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...

Orbital elements: 2009 JR5 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0259 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 160.60832 (2000.0) P Q n 0.70195376 Peri. 309.94351 +0.20371517 -0.97751023 a 1.2539023 Node 128.21716 +0.91808247 +0.17139049 e 0.3578490 Incl. 3.98009 +0.34003635 +0.12287822 P 1.40 H 20.2 G 0.1...

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Orbital elements: 2008 JM20 Earth MOID = 0.1640 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 94.18924 (2000.0) P Q n 0.95387039 Peri. 27.69187 -0.01448071 -0.93789270 a 1.0220602 Node 64.97383 +0.83205695 -0.20354607 e 0.5920720 Incl. 22.49097 +0.55450117 +0.28093823 P 1.03 H 21.0 G 0.15 U 4 [u...

Title: Resolved Dust Emission in a Quasar at z=3.65 Authors: D.L. Clements, Glen Petitpas, D. Farrah, E. Hatziminaoglou, T. Babbedge, M. Rowan-Robinson, I. Perez-Fournon, Antonio Hernan-Caballero, Nieves Castro-Rodriguez, C. Lonsdale, J. Surace, A. Franceschini, B.J. Wilkes, H. Smith We p...

Title: Monitoring campaign of 1RXS J171824.2-402934, the low-mass X-ray binary with the lowest mass accretion rate Authors: J.J.M. in 't Zand (SRON), P.G. Jonker (SRON & Cfa), C.G. Bassa (SRON & Radboud U. Nijmegen), C.B. Markwardt (UMD & NASA-GSFC), A.M. Levine (MKI) We carried ou...

A possible magnitude 8.5 nova (VSX J133115.7-635738) has been discovered on the 11th May, 2009, by G. Pojmanski ( ASAS Project) in the constellation Centaurus. Position(2000): RA: 13h31m15s.76, Dec: -63° 57' 38".5

Orbital elements: 2009 JG2 Earth MOID = 0.0001 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 353.99317 (2000.0) P Q n 0.34171883 Peri. 103.79645 +0.71469323 +0.69899150 a 2.0262364 Node 211.86871 -0.65861856 +0.66052696 e 0.6578292 Incl. 2.71287 -0.23544677 +0.27407120 P 2.88 H 22.6 G 0.15 U 7 [...

The Junk Bond Observatory is located in Sierra Vista, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert. * Longitude: 110 degrees, 12.24 minutes West * Latitude: 31 degrees, 28.51 minutes North * Elevation: 4425 feet (1349 meters) Established in 1996, observer David Healy began by using a Celestron 14 SCT and a Meade1...

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A Soyuz-U rocket with the progress 32P/M-66 (366) is to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on the 10th February, 2009, at 05: 49 UTC (08:49: 44 msk). The Progress cargo ship is to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. Docking above the territory of South Siberia is sched...

Expand (150kb, 560 x 560) Credit: SOHO/MDI The Solar Cycle 24 Sunspot, 11017, can be found near the center of the solar disk.

Title: Supernova Kicks and Misaligned Be Star Binaries Authors: Rebecca G. Martin, Christopher A. Tout, J. E. Pringle Be stars are rapidly spinning B stars surrounded by an outflowing disc of gas in Keplerian rotation. Be star/X-ray binary systems contain a Be star and a neutron star. They are foun...