The Vietnam Science and Technology Institute has finalised a scheme on the establishment of the Vietnam Space Committee and the Space Technology Institute. The scheme has been presented to related ministries and agencies for consideration and opinions. It will be submitted to the Prime Ministe...
The MAGIC Telescope for gamma rays MAGIC, located at Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma, Canary Islands, is the largest single-dish Cherenkov telescope in the world, and also the instrument with the largest optical surface (17 meters of diameter, corresponding to 240 square meters of area). Never...
Orbital elements: 2009 HY51 Earth MOID = 0.3187 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 69.84019 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45049553 Peri. 81.31254 -0.78006623 -0.58949053 a 1.6852942 Node 62.29608 +0.43917749 -0.75462611 e 0.2926231 Incl. 13.70457 +0.44566784 -0.28816721 P 2.19 H 20.6 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Arizona is known for its sunshine, but its starry skies are attracting attention too. Observatories, astronomy clubs and even resorts are offering opportunities for stargazing around the state, especially in areas with little light pollution. Arizona's best-known observatories include Low...
Title: Large and rapid climate variability during the Messinian salinity crisis: Evidence from deuterium concentrations of individual biomarkers Authors: Nils Andersen, Hilary A. Paul, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Judith A. McKenzie, Anke Behrens, Philippe Schaeffer, and Pierre Albrecht Durin...
China is to launch the Yaogan VI remote-sensing satellite atop a Long March 2C launch vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north Shanxi Province on the 22nd April, 2009.
The 80 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2009 FJ30 made a close pass (9.7 Lunar Distances, 0.0249 AU), travelling at 14.22km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd April 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance betwe...
Orbital elements: 2009 HD Earth MOID = 0.0738 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 16.34800 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27116891 Peri. 172.39513 -0.88588041 +0.44767919 a 2.3639745 Node 35.03093 -0.43601038 -0.71388758 e 0.5443970 Incl. 12.23552 -0.15846404 -0.53846808 P 3.63 H 22.8 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, welcomes the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The lab will salute the 40th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 mission - the first human landing on the moon. JPL will also celebrate the Inter...
More than 75 scientists, students and university administrators celebrated the opening of the Indiana University Research and Teaching Preserve's new Field Laboratory, an ecology and environmental sciences research station and classroom facility on the Bloomington campus. The field lab de...
Title: The disc-dominated host galaxy of FR-I radio source B2 0722+30 Authors: B. H. C. Emonts (1), C. N. Tadhunter (2), R. Morganti (3,4), T. A. Oosterloo (3,4), J. Holt (5), E. Brogt (6), G. van Moorsel (7) ((1) CSIRO-ATNF, (2) Univ. of Sheffield, (3) ASTRON, (4) Kapteyn Astron. Inst., (5) Leiden Ob...
Title: A 3-D study of the photosphere of HD99563: I. Pulsation analysis Authors: L. M. Freyhammer, D. W. Kurtz, V. G. Elkin, G. Mathys, I. Savanov, W. Zima, H. Shibahashi, K. Sekiguchi We have used high-speed spectroscopy of the rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) star HD99563 to study the pulsation ampl...
Title: SDSS J094533.99+100950.1 - the Rosetta stone for weak emission line quasars? Authors: Krzysztof Hryniewicz (1), Bozena Czerny (2), Marek Nikolajuk (1), Joanna Kuraszkiewicz (3) ((1) Faculty of Physics, Univ. of Bialystok, Poland,(2) N.Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland, (3) Ha...
Une équipe de chercheurs du Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC : IN2P3-CNRS, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, CEA, Observatoire de Paris), du laboratoire Astrophysique Interactions Multi-échelles (AIM : Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, CEA,/ INSU-CNRS) et de l'Institut d'ast...
