Title: V532 Oph is a New R Coronae Borealis Star Authors: Geoffrey C. Clayton (LSU), D. Kilkenny (Univ. of the Western Cape), P. Wils (Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde), D.L. Welch (McMaster Univ.) V532 Oph has been found to be a member of the rare, hydrogen-deficient R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars fro...
A rain of navigation signals falls constantly upon the Earth from GPS and the initial satellites in Europe's Galileo system, enabling an ever-increasing number of positioning and guidance services. Afterwards these microwave beams bounce back to space - where a proposed ESA mission aims to harn...
A member of the Apollo 9 flight is scheduled to lead a discussion at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln about protecting the Earth from asteroids. Rusty Schweickart's April 22 speech at the Van Brunt Visitors Centre is free and open to the public. [url=http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp...
Young astronomers Aleksandar and Stefan Cikota, twins who are Physics students at the Zurich University, discovered an asteroid in March last year and named it (187700) Zagreb. Asteroid (187700) Zagreb moves at 18.2 km per second between Mars and Jupiter, while it takes 4.4 years for the asteroi...
The brief Antarctic summer gives astronomers little time to maintain the equipment at their telescope test site in the remote Antarctic interior. They demand tools they can rely on: Fluke 189 and 179 digital multimeters (DMMs). Since 1996, astronomers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW...
The 110 - 250 metre wide asteroid 2007 SQ6 made a close pass (67.1 LD, 25,800,000 kms), travelling at 10km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th April 2009. The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Title: A new spectroscopic and interferometric study of the young stellar object V645 Cyg Authors: A. S. Miroshnichenko, K.-H. Hofmann, D. Schertl, G. Weigelt, S. Kraus, N. Manset, L. Albert, Y. Y. Balega, V. G. Klochkova, R. J. Rudy, D. K. Lynch, S. Mazuk, C. C. Venturini, R. W. Russell, K. N. Granki...
Title: On the compact HII galaxy UM 408 as seen by GMOS-IFU: Physical conditions Authors: Patricio Lagos (1,2), Eduardo Telles (1,3), Casiana Munoz-Tunon (2), Eleazar R. Carrasco (4), Francois Cuisinier (5), Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle (6) ((1)Observatorio Nacional, Brazil, (2)Instituto de As...
An Aberdeen UFO expert today warned a further wave of activity could be on the horizon. At the end of last year the Evening Express revealed how a spate of readers came forward after spotting suspected UFOs - ball of light moving strangely in the sky. Now Aberdeen-based expert Ian Taylor, who has studi...
The Committee for Small Body Nomenclature of the international astronomical union (Harvard, USA) has approved the suggestion of the discoverers of the asteroid 204831 the object to be named "Vassil Levski". This informed the University centre for cosmic research and technologies o...
The setting of a hearing date in the Hill of Tara / M3 motorway case was postponed by the Irish Chief Justice, the Hon. Mr. Justice John Murray. He said he will set a hearing date after written submissions were received by The Attorney General, The Minister for the Environment, Meath County Council, an...
After two years of construction, the University of Utah will hold a dedication celebration on Friday, April 17 for its new, environmentally friendly geology facility, the $25 million Frederick Albert Sutton Building. "The building is a wonderful gift to help us learn more about the Earth - a...
Young astrophysicist wins award for her study of vibrating stars It turns out stars do a little shimmy on the cosmic dance floor, and that's helping astronomers understand the structure of the universe. Catherine Lovekin, who just won a national award for her work, studied star pulsation for three...
The 170 - 380 metre wide asteroid 2009 FO28 made a close flyby of the Earth-Moon system on the 11 April 2009, passing at a distance of fifteen million, three hundred thousand km.
