A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket is scheduled to launch the Italian Sicral 1B military telecommunications satellite between 08:16 - 09:13 GMT, 19th April, 2009, from the Odyssey platform, stationed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The 3,038 kg dual-use Italsat 3000 spacecraft, built by Thales Ale...
A territory mother has backed up claims unidentified flying objects have returned to the Top End after she photographed two "discs of light" in the sky. The mother-of-three, who wished only to be known by her first name Kym, took the photo as she watched the dark rain clouds roll towards he...
The following apparent UFO/alien sighting took place in the evening of 7 January 2009 in night in the Al Qasim region, Saudi Arabia. Arabic language forums are abuzz with Saudi citizens claiming to have witnessed what is even being described by some in the normally conservative Saudi Arabian press...
For a small town, Devasthal has astronomical ambitions. Next year, the town in Uttarakhand will host a unique telescope, only among a handful of its kind in the world, that uses a big, spinning bowl of liquid - and not the usual glass mirrors - to focus light from celestial objects. The telescope, with...
Calls and emails continue to come into News 3 about a mysterious "fireball" in the sky around 6:30 Monday Morning . Witnesses to the flaming object have contacted us from across the Brazos Valley. All describe it falling in the Western Sky. [url=http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/4...
A bright light that was spotted darting across the night sky has convinced a Bendigo man it could have been a UFO. The man, who was enjoying a cuppa outside his Bendigo home last Tuesday evening, captured footage of the object on his video recorder and posted it on video-sharing website YouTube. [url=...
Orbital elements: 2009 HW2 Earth MOID = 0.0518 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 20.55057 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30158971 Peri. 350.39130 -0.92676074 +0.37473005 a 2.2022082 Node 211.65653 -0.34124082 -0.86907654 e 0.5213074 Incl. 2.87287 -0.15706440 -0.32292935 P 3.27 H 23.9 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 HT2 Earth MOID = 0.0514 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 13.68235 (2000.0) P Q n 0.22568642 Peri. 178.69080 -0.88204981 +0.46534311 a 2.6717702 Node 29.40307 -0.43363169 -0.74054150 e 0.6048506 Incl. 8.64349 -0.18425982 -0.48482376 P 4.37 H 26.5 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2009 HS2 Earth MOID = 0.1107 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 26.85399 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20024501 Peri. 54.74830 +0.09291014 -0.98441116 a 2.8935318 Node 30.96085 +0.79294851 -0.01755395 e 0.8469053 Incl. 16.87525 +0.60216308 +0.17500434 P 4.92 H 21.8 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2009 HR2 Earth MOID = 0.0273 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 55.70542 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46861278 Peri. 95.73748 -0.54660975 -0.83323299 a 1.6415721 Node 27.90758 +0.68046083 -0.49995512 e 0.5498118 Incl. 10.25301 +0.48804798 -0.23615178 P 2.10 H 25.1 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
On April 13, 1959, after two unsuccessful attempts by the US Air Force to place a Discoverer spacecraft into orbit - one of which had puttered out on the ground long before launch and another which the Air Force claimed was in orbit but actually probably came down in Antarctica - they tried again with Di...
A mysterious orange light shimmering in the night sky above North Cheam has posed a new riddle for UFO researchers. Michele Weekes, 44, spotted an orb hovering silently over Windsor Road while standing in her garden late on Easter Day. The teaching assistant suspected the fast-moving object was a b...
A possible magnitude 17.5 supernova was discovered by Alessandro Dimai (CROSS) on the 14th April, 2009, in the galaxy UGC3309 in the constellation Camelopardalis. The supernova is located 10' north from the centre of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA 05 29 13.80, Dec +67 22 32.5
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Title: Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Monitoring of the M8+L7 Binary LHS 2397aAB: First Dynamical Mass Benchmark at the L/T Transition Authors: Trent J. Dupuy, Michael C. Liu (IfA/Hawaii), Michael J. Ireland (Sydney) We present Keck LGS AO imaging and aperture masking observations of the...
