Orbital elements: 2009 HJ21 Earth MOID = 0.0022 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 2.65604 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47820684 Peri. 277.72703 +0.62014881 +0.78402353 a 1.6195419 Node 30.65132 -0.69736924 +0.56665258 e 0.6453139 Incl. 3.02239 -0.35929320 +0.25340080 P 2.06 H 27.5 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2009 HW44 Earth MOID = 0.2992 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 327.38949 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21962431 Peri. 295.99996 +0.76586741 +0.50247927 a 2.7207112 Node 38.06059 -0.01235895 +0.63534048 e 0.6057988 Incl. 40.60020 -0.64287975 +0.58639326 P 4.49 H 17.6 G 0.15 U 9...
It's clear a 170-pound black boulder doesn't belong embedded half-a-foot into a sandy loam field north of Livingston. The puzzle is whether it fell from the sky -- a meteorite on a collision course with Earth. Or if the giant rock was abandoned 10 feet off the road for some unknown reason, coincidenta...
Did 'Dark Gulping' Generate Black Holes in Early Universe? A process called 'dark gulping' may solve the mystery of the how supermassive black holes were able to form when the Universe was less than a billion years old. Dr Curtis Saxton will be presenting the study at the European Week of Astronomy an...
Venus Occulation 4 22 2009Click to Play | View Details As seen from Umatilla, Oregon, this is a series of both still and video of the moon passing in front of the planet Venus this morning (4-22-2009). All pictures and video by Tony George, Astronomy Instructor, Columbia Basin College Occultation of...
Using the NASA Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite, a team of astronomers have discovered an object predicted, but never seen before - a 'jet trail' nebula. Team leader Dr Klaas Wiersema of the University of Leicester will present the discovery on Wednesday 22nd April at the European Week...
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have created chiral palladium metal. The most powerful tool in homogeneous transition metal catalysis is ligand design and optimisation. However, as the complexity of the ligands increases, synthetic routes towards these ligands are generall...
ESA has confirmed the principle of a new space thruster that may ultimately give much more thrust than today’s electric propulsion techniques. The concept is an ingenious one, inspired by the northern and southern aurorae, the glows in the sky that signal increased solar activity.
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Orbital elements: 2009 HA21 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0468 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 104.80680 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61307035 Peri. 218.82086 +0.43685324 -0.89841334 a 1.3723425 Node 205.36987 +0.84921514 +0.42835026 e 0.6948727 Incl. 6.01035 +0.29663597 +0.09679627 P 1.61 H 20.5 G 0....
BBC2 to celebrate moon landing anniversary The moon landings season will include James May on the Moon, in which the Top Gear presenter trains for three days with the United States Air Force before travelling to the edge of space in a U2 spy plane. A two-part documentary, NASA - Triumph And Tragedy, ex...
At the end of last semester, a group of Kent State physics students drove to Boston for what was not your average college road trip. The students were off to pick up a special donation: a radio telescope. The summer before, senior physics major Aaron Slodov had taken an internship with the Search for Ex...
Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced that its New Wave Research (NWR) Divisions UP213 laser ablation system helped enable the dating of ancient asteroids at the Department of Geo...
