Youngsters at a Doncaster school were wowed by an astronomer who told them tales about the night sky. The students from Balby Carr Community Sports and Science College listened intently to astronomer Dr Andrew Newsam, a researcher at Liverpool John Moore's University. [url=http://www.thestar...
The 270 - 600 metre wide asteroid 2001 GQ2 will make a close pass (63.0 Lunar Distances, 0.1620 AU), travelling at 15.59 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd May, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance bet...
The 20 - 48 metre wide asteroid 2008 JQ will make a close pass (54.5 Lunar Distances, 0.1399 AU), travelling at 9.81 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd May, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between E...
Orbital elements: 2009 JA Earth MOID = 0.0172 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 5.31677 (2000.0) P Q n 0.58716588 Peri. 45.95680 -0.08313379 +0.99258551 a 1.4124145 Node 219.53095 -0.94951177 -0.10590802 e 0.3202724 Incl. 8.00812 -0.30251639 +0.05964478 P 1.68 H 25.4 G 0.15 U 8 [url=...
The Village of Tubac will be a stargazer's paradise on May 2 as astronomy buffs of all ages turn out to celebrate International Astronomy Day 2009 at La Entrada de Tubac, at the entrance to the Village of Tubac. From 11am to 10pm, the festival will offer free educational demonstrations and fun for the w...
When US Defence Secretary Robert Gates gave his budget presentation he made a point of saying several times that there were classified program decisions that would affect the budget. Its happening already. Details on this are quite sparse since the programs involved and their budgets are classif...
A team of three has solved a 45-year-old problem in the mathematics of topology. The Kervaire invariant problem is "one of the major outstanding problems in algebraic and geometric topology" says fellow mathematician Nick Kuhn, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. [url...
In a forthcoming Physical Review Letter article, a group of physicists at the University of Nevada, Reno are reporting an analysis of an experiment on violation of mirror symmetry in atoms. Their refined analysis sets new limits on a hypothesised particle, the extra Z-boson, carving out the lowe...
The Maine Department of Transportation and the Maine Department of Conservation announce the seasonal opening of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge Observatory at 9 a.m. Friday, May 1. Read more
If you were sky-gazing Thursday night, you may have seen what appeared to be a shooting star. But was it? Santa Barbara resident Sharon Byrne said it was far too large - and far too close - to be one. She said it looked like a meteorite entering the Earth's atmosphere, heading southeast. [url=http://ww...
Defence scientists are keeping hush over experimental rocket launches to take place in the South Australia's Outback in the next two weeks. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation and United States Air Force are launching multiple sounding rockets in the Woomera Prohibited Area. [url=...
Orbital elements: 2009 HF82 Earth MOID = 0.0851 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 150.69692 (2000.0) P Q n 0.60103274 Peri. 22.32213 +0.47421037 -0.79381446 a 1.3906056 Node 42.25360 +0.69773579 +0.07509614 e 0.3611362 Incl. 34.49043 +0.53692578 +0.60350573 P 1.64 H 20.4 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Orbital elements: 2009 HE82 Earth MOID = 0.2692 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 251.95064 (2000.0) P Q n 0.58812871 Peri. 152.53300 +0.90440795 -0.24799370 a 1.4108726 Node 226.52200 +0.24724419 +0.96780131 e 0.1152674 Incl. 28.58553 +0.34773059 -0.04312469 P 1.68 H 18.5 G 0.15 U...
