Sandra Faber, Astronomer, Franklin Awards 2009 HonoureeClick to Play | View Details Sandra Faber will receive the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science at the 2009 Franklin Awards in Philly for her work with the COSMOS. From creating one of the first comprehensive models of how the unive...
This year, Ashish Thakkar, who believes heights have always worked magic for him, is planning a far more daring escapade that is going to take him rather higher than the top of the Burj al Arab. The 28 year-old resident of Kampala is among the initial group of Virgin Galactic space tourists who have sig...
Orbital elements: 2009 HE Earth MOID = 0.0841 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 337.51781 (2000.0) P Q n 0.66390391 Peri. 118.43650 +0.67079416 +0.69924183 a 1.3013653 Node 200.88516 -0.62994425 +0.71308537 e 0.4094877 Incl. 43.89581 +0.39141465 -0.05069637 P 1.48 H 20.7 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Canadian archaeologists say they have discovered a well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey that presents new facts about the so-called Dark Ages. Discovered by the University of Toronto's Tayinat Archaeological Project last summer, scientists said the temple is thought to have been const...
Comet P/2009 H1 (LINEAR) = P/2002 LZ11 (LINEAR) Comet P/2002 LZ11 (LINEAR) was recovered by Paul Camilleri, Ernesto Guido, Giovanni Sostero, and Enrico Prosperion (RAS Observatory) on the 17th April, 2009. The comet was first discovered by the LINEAR monitoring telescope on 5th June, 2002, and...
India is planning to introduce an ultra-low-cost, satellite-based 'identification system' to monitor fishing vessels across the countrys coastal areas. Navy sources said the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was developing the system, known as the B-Class Automatic Identificatio...
A possible magnitude 18.2 supernova was discovered on the 15th April, 2009, in an anonymous galaxy the constellation Eridanus. The supernova is located 2' West, 6' North form the centre of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA 12 08 07.21, Dec -31 59 25.3
Another new tomb in the Valley of the Kings: ‘KV64’ - II
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project says radar readings show what could be another 3,500-year-old chamber from the days of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, not far from the recently explored KV63 chamber.
“ARTP first encountered evide...
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Orbital elements: 2009 HF Earth MOID = 0.0745 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 58.89740 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49669981 Peri. 111.37830 -0.75142426 -0.64185319 a 1.5790894 Node 29.35465 +0.42799558 -0.65053829 e 0.4300886 Incl. 18.17713 +0.50217663 -0.40598574 P 1.98 H 22.7 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
A cosmic visitor created a brief spectacle over the pre-dawn Wise County skies Friday. Most likely a meteor plummeting to earth in a blaze of glory, the fireball streaked down on an easterly arc roughly above U.S. Route 58 down toward what appeared to be a destination in the Tacoma area, at least from t...
Simeis 147 is a supernova remnant spanning over 3 degrees of the sky. It's estimated to lie about 3000 light years from Earth, have an approximate diameter of 165 light years across, and an expansion rate of nearly 600 miles per second. The violent stellar explosion that created this object occurred...
