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2009 BG11 = BO07188 (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 BG11 Earth MOID = 0.0366 AU Epoch 2009 Jan. 9.0 TT = JDT 2454840.5 MPC M 291.24824 (2000.0) P Q n 0.84398840 Peri. 257.53504 -0.88941161 +0.33254222 a 1.1089494 Node 301.10957 -0.11886836 -0.83077008 e 0.1927209 Incl. 21.48827 -0.44138113 -0....

Asteroid 2009 BH11 = BO07196 (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 BH11 Earth MOID = 0.0041 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 354.26047 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25824312 Peri. 270.32374 +0.23337974 -0.97238450 a 2.4422130 Node 166.17985 +0.89463826 +0.21411201 e 0.6478579 Incl. 0.36164 +0.380...

The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey has discovered seven possible supernovas. CSS090126:093230+174119 2009-01-26 UT 05:24:01 RA 09:32:30.11 Dec 17:41:19.8 Mag 17.7 Type SN CSS090125:112317+101741 2009-01-25 UT 09:42:38 RA 11:23:16.75 Dec 10:17:41.5 Mag 19.2 Type SN CSS090120:1646...

An archaeological site dating back about 5,500 years and believed to be older than Mohenjodaro has been found in Pakistan's southern Sindh province. A team of 22 archaeologists found some semi-precious and precious stones and utensils made of clay, copper and other metals during an excavation at...

Helium Rains Inside Saturn, Jupiter And Other Jovian Planets, Research Suggests Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look. By determining the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at the millions of atmospheres of pressure present in the interior of Saturn and Ju...

My kids and I were heading up the chair lift at C.O.P. last evening around 7:45 pm Jan 20th/09 facing SW and saw what apeared to be a meteorite (fire ball) heading south through the sky. Did any one else see this? Doug

9B01B0A (NEOCPO)

2009 BC11 = 9B01879 (NEOCPO)Orbital elements: 2009 BC11 Earth MOID = 0.0429 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 331.53002 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29517636 Peri. 88.48208 -0.99781256 +0.03626228 a 2.2339923 Node 93.59372 -0.05516656 -0.91746121 e 0.5891143 Incl. 3.17479 +0.03642439 -0.396...

One of the most long-lasting satellites that the Soviet Union placed into orbit some 21 years ago has now started acting up, spilling a trace of unidentified substances along its orbit, American observatories report. The January issue of the journal Orbital Debris Quarterly News details the natu...

Contrary to expectations for a small icy body, much of the comet dust returned by the Stardust mission formed very close to the young sun and was altered from the solar systems early materials. When the Stardust mission returned to Earth with samples from the comet Wild 2 in 2006, scientists knew the m...

2009 BD11 = 9B8C2D6 (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 BD11 Earth MOID = 0.0702 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 348.53806 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23085137 Peri. 353.51634 -0.45904953 -0.86972171 a 2.6317689 Node 123.66405 +0.82457095 -0.49304753 e 0.5999340 Incl. 12.57925 +0.33069061 +0....

The 71 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2007 UY1 will make a close pass (28.3 Lunar Distances, 0.0728 AU) to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th January 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

A mysterious UFO was witnessed by dozens of residents of a number of villages in Western Russia on the night of the January 6 2009. The UFO was orb shaped and changed colour from glowing white to electric blue. It periodically emitted a white laser beam in the direction of the ground. The UFO travelled i...

Happy New Year The Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, begins today, on 26th January 2009. 2009 is the Year of the Ox

Title: 138La-138Ce-136Ce nuclear cosmochronometer of supernova neutrino process Authors: Takehito Hayakawa, Toshiyuki Shizuma, To****aka Kajino, Kengo Ogawa, Hitoshi Nakada The 138La (T1/2=102 Gyr) - 138Ce - 136Ce system is proposed to be used as a nuclear cosmochronometer for measuring t...