The 90 - 200 metre wide asteroid 2000 WP19 made a close pass (71.4 Lunar Distances, 0.1835 AU) to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th February 2009 @ 16:50 GMT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Orbital elements: 2009 BL80 Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 1.46628 (2000.0) P Q n 0.06481526 Peri. 8.10613 -0.20332049 -0.96650622 a 6.1378727 Node 93.72713 +0.88928569 -0.24921493 e 0.6411501 Incl. 9.02940 +0.40967272 +0.06129955 P 15.21 H 16.3 G 0.15 U 3 MPEC 2009 -C77
Caravaners were left baffled when the mysterious cylinder hovered over a busy campsite in Brean, Somerset. They claimed the unidentified black metal object stands out clearly against the blue sky, where it can be seen darting up and down for more than 10 minutes. [url=http://www.telegraph.co.u...
Planetarium faces closure after 46 years The planetarium is part of the Jefferson County School District. Voters in Jefferson County struck down a proposed bond issue and mill levy last November. The district asked for $384 million for building expenses and for operations. The failed measures ar...
Fossils excavated from Bahamian blue hole may give clues of early life Long before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Floridas coast and left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of humans can permanently change and eliminate l...
The 390 - 870 metre wide asteroid 2009 CD2 will make a close pass (17.7 Lunar Distances, 0.0454 AU) to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th February 2009 @ 21:36 GMT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 230 - 510 metre wide asteroid 2006 AS2 made a close pass (9.2 Lunar Distances, 0.0235 AU) of the Earth-Moon system on the 10th February 2009 @ 12:00 GMT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
A Proton rocket has successfully launched the Express AM44 and Express MD1 communications satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 00:03 GMT Wednesday (3:03 a.m. msk). The satellites entered orbit at 09:29 GMT. The 2,500 kilogram Express AM44 satellite, built by ISS Reshetnev,...
The Express-AM44 and Express-MD1 communications satellites atop a Proton-M carrier rocket are to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 11, 2009. The Express-AM44 is to replace the aging Express-A3 satellite, which has reached the end of its service life and occup...
Title: Molecular hydrogen in the disk of the Herbig Ae star HD97048 Authors: C. Martin-Zaidi, E. Habart, J.-C. Augereau, F. Ménard, P-.O. Lagage, E. Pantin, J. Olofsson We present high-resolution spectroscopic mid-infrared observations of the circumstellar disk around the Herbig Ae star HD97...
Cosmic Dawn z=8.5 shows the Universe 590 million years after the Big Bang Scientists have used a computer simulation to predict what the very early Universe would have appeared like 500 million years after the Big Bang. The images, produced by scientists at Durham University's Institute for Compu...
A three metre tidal wave surging down Aoraki Mount Cooks Terminal Lake was the first indicator of the largest single iceberg in 25 years calving directly from the Tasman Glacier terminal face yesterday (10 February). Read more...
Title: A New Supernova Remnant Candidate and an Associated Outflow in the Sagittarius C Region Authors: Takeshi Go Tsuru, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hironori Matsumoto, Katsuji Koyama, Shigeo Yamauchi We present the Suzaku results on a new candidate of a supernova remnant (SNR) in t...
