NASA will host a media teleconference on Thursday, April 30, at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss new data and findings revealed by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER. The spacecraft is the first mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the s...
Bosnian explorer Semir Osmanagic is convinced he has found Europe's first pyramids which he says are a new world wonder dating back to ancient times.
The two pyramids are hidden in Visoko valley, Bosnia.
The exp...
A U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team announced today that the five-satellite Milstar constellation has accumulated 50 years of combined on-orbit operations and continues to provide secure, reliable and robust communications to U.S. and Allied Forces around the globe. [url=http://www.loc...
Depuis un peu plus d'une décennie, les observations de la cinématique des galaxies spirales montrent que les barres d'étoiles au centre des galaxies sont en rotation rapide. Ces mesures concernent presque exclusivement des galaxies spirales brillantes de type morphologique précoce, telles q...
A magnitude 15.2 supernova, 2009dq, was discovered by Pignata et al., at the CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch (CHASE) on the 24th April 2009, in the Peculiar galaxy IC 2554 in the constellation Carina. The supernova is located 2" west and 3" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet th...
Orbital Elements at Epoch 2455000.5 (2009-Jun-18.0) TDBReference: JPL 6(heliocentric ecliptic J2000) ElementValueUncertainty (1-sigma) Units e.38906279682698.8533e-05a1.2574774352582960.00012144AUq.76823974734998623.7142e-05AUi10.715999455424820.0020326degnode345....
Orbital elements: 2009 HJ36 Earth MOID = 0.0170 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 17.06092 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49976598 Peri. 202.98071 -0.54274550 +0.83905537 a 1.5726241 Node 34.18209 -0.75982558 -0.47143667 e 0.3553094 Incl. 3.83689 -0.35789999 -0.27153922 P 1.97 H 27.9 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
The 30 - 68 metre wide asteroid 2007 WA will make a close pass (33.9 Lunar Distances, 0.0871 AU), travelling at 3.75 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th April 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance betwee...
Orbital elements: 2009 HG60 Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 36.01613 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35645359 Peri. 282.84091 -0.71368022 -0.69732213 a 1.9700053 Node 213.01852 +0.68059631 -0.66790806 e 0.6443910 Incl. 6.99393 +0.16567804 -0.26007822 P 2.77 H 22.6 G 0.15 U 8 [...
Orbital elements: 2009 HF60 Earth MOID = 0.3479 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 327.54613 (2000.0) P Q n 0.38433304 Peri. 248.28262 +0.60045057 +0.65909107 a 1.8735455 Node 67.03772 -0.42038465 +0.74188702 e 0.3656953 Incl. 29.45915 -0.68024691 +0.12329890 P 2.56 H 18.3 G 0.15 U 9...
Jeff Rodgers failed biology the first time he took it in college and didnt really have much of a science background. So how did he come to be the director of the Bishop Planetarium and director of education for the South Florida Museum in downtown Bradenton? [url=http://www.bradenton.com/busines...
Spectacular cosmic bubble '60 light years wide and 70,000 years old' This spectacular cosmic bubble was caused by a gas expulsion from a dying star and is 60 light years across and 70,000 years old. At its centre is a star, known as a Wolf-Rayet star which is 20 times the mass of the sun. When it dies it thr...
Title: The GOODS NICMOS Survey: First Results Authors: Conselice, Christopher; GNS Team We present the first results from the GOODS NICMOS Survey (GNS), a 180 orbit Hubble Space Telescope program to image with NICMOS in the F160W (H-band) a sample of 60 massive, M* > 1011 M0, galaxies at z > 2 f...
