Orbital elements: 1998 HN3 Earth MOID = 0.2373 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 343.82619 (2000.0) P Q n 0.17962688 Peri. 250.64671 +0.48896488 +0.86385820 a 3.1109175 Node 49.23143 -0.72826075 +0.48068006 e 0.6173671 Incl. 9.20013 -0.48015584 +0.15065087 P 5.49 H 18.3 G 0.15 U 3 [u...
May 1, 2009, 7:00 pm We are rapidly moving towards a new generation of ground-based optical/infrared telescopes that will dwarf the current set of 8 to 10 meter giants. See more
Mysterious 1934 Disappearance of Explorer Everett Ruess in Utah Solved With Help of CU-Boulder Researchers The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to...
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and The University of Western Ontario are looking for help from local residents in recovering a meteorite that fell to earth in the Newmarket, Ont. area. At 8:37 p.m. on Sunday, March 15 (01:37 UT March 16), five cameras of Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network rec...
There's good news and bad news as March turns to April and a long winter finally fades. The bad news: the spring sky has nowhere near as many bright deep-sky objects for small telescopes as winter, at least for northern-hemisphere observers. The good news? All five bright planets are visible this mo...
NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland. Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and Dr...
An international team of astronomers has identified huge star streams in the outskirts of two nearby spiral galaxies. For the first time, they have obtained a panoramic overview of an example of galactic cannibalism similar to that involving the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the vicinity of the Mil...
Orbital elements: 2009 HG21 Earth MOID = 0.0163 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 322.71572 (2000.0) P Q n 1.13922840 Peri. 316.90448 +0.98153089 +0.18408359 a 0.9079505 Node 32.59513 -0.13846782 +0.87140457 e 0.3725552 Incl. 5.54584 -0.13199917 +0.45471674 P 0.87 H 24.9 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Orbital elements: 2009 HU77 Earth MOID = 0.1217 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 21.69257 (2000.0) P Q n 0.44923253 Peri. 1.01979 -0.77429412 +0.58436817 a 1.6884515 Node 218.31890 -0.58334417 -0.80786535 e 0.3315599 Incl. 23.05974 -0.24531247 +0.07659908 P 2.19 H 23.4 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Lochaber and Inverness are both at the centre of a UFO alert with reports of similar sightings on the same night. Mysterious white lights have been seen above the Fort William area at around the same time it emerged that glowing orange and yellow lights in the sky were reported around Inverness. [url=...
A possible magnitude 6.9 nova in the constellation Aquila was discovered on the 29th April, 2009. If the nova is confirmed then it is likely a flare of V500 Aquilae. The last outburst occurred on the 5th September, 1943. V500 Aquilae then reached a maximum brightness of 6.1, and with a normal state mag...
Title: NGC 6340: an old S0 galaxy with a young polar disc. Clues from morphology, internal kinematics and stellar populations Authors: Igor Chilingarian, Alexandra Novikova, Veronique Cayatte, Francoise Combes, Paola Di Matteo, Anatoly Zasov Lenticular galaxies are believed to form by a comb...
Title: The micro-glitch in PSR B1821-24 : A case for the strange pulsar? Authors: Raka Dona Ray Mandal, Sushan Konar, Mira Dey, Jishnu Dey The single glitch observed in PSR B1821-24, a millisecond pulsar in M28, is unusual on two counts. First, the magnitude of this glitch is at least an order of magni...
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