A possible magnitude 17.5 supernova, 2009M, was discovered on the 20th January 2009 in the spiral galaxy NGC 1028, in the constellation Aries. The supernova is located 8".8 west and 10".0 south from the nucleus. As yet the Type is unknown Position(2000): RA = 02h 39m 36.57s ±0.03",...
A rocket testing facility is headed for Butte Silver Bow County. The Butte Silver Bow Council of Commissioners approved a contract Wednesday that allows Butte Silver Bow and the civil engineering firm Robert Peccia and Associates to officially begin design work on a rocket testing facility near t...
Eighth grader Charlie Sobcov wants to stop birds from dying in collisions with windows, but he doesn't want to ruin anybody's view. For his latest school science fair project he has invented painted, plastic stickers that can be placed - discreetly - right in the middle of a window pane. "This p...
Title: The architecture of the GJ876 planetary system. Masses and orbital coplanarity for planets b and c Authors: Jacob L. Bean, Andreas Seifahrt We present a combined analysis of previously published high-precision radial velocities and astrometry for the GJ876 planetary system using a self...
Title: Exoplanet research with SAFARI: A far-IR imaging spectrometer for SPICA Authors: J.R. Goicoechea, K. Isaak, B. Swinyard The far-IR spectral window plays host to a wide range of both spectroscopic and photometric diagnostics with which to open the protoplanetary disks and exoplanet rese...
Title: Cloud Cosmology : Building the Web Interface for iCosmo Authors: Thomas Kitching, Adam Amara, Anais Rassat, Alexandre Refregier Astronomy and cosmology have embraced the internet. We routinely and successfully use the internet as a repository for sharing code, publications and inform...
Coleman Observatory Closing Its Doors For nearly a quarter century the Coleman Observatory has given visitors a unique look at the universe from land eight miles north of Van Buren. The Observatory is being forced to relocate due to mortgage payments that weren't being passed on to a third party. [u...
Engineers at the University of Liverpool have tested a new form of concrete designed to reduce the impact of bomb blasts in public areas. The fibre-reinforced concrete was found to absorb a thousand times more energy than plain concrete and could therefore be used for bomb-proof litter bins and pro...
Title: Discovery of the Most-Distant Double-Peaked Emitter at z=1.369 Authors: B. Luo, W. N. Brandt, J. D. Silverman, I. V. Strateva, F. E. Bauer, P. Capak, J. Kartaltepe, B. D. Lehmer, V. Mainieri, M. Salvato, G. Szokoly, D. P. Schneider, C. Vignali We report the discovery of the most-distant doub...
Title: X-ray emission from the M9 dwarf 1RXS J115928.5-524717 - Quasi-quiescent coronal activity at the end of the main sequence Authors: J. Robrade, J.H.M.M. Schmitt Methods: We analyse an XMM-Newton observation of 1RXS J115928.5-524717, an ultracool dwarf with spectral type M9 and compare i...
A previously unknown fault in eastern Arkansas could trigger a magnitude 7 earthquake with an epicenter near a major natural gas pipeline, a scientist said Wednesday. Haydar Al-Shukri, the director of the Arkansas Earthquake Centre at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said the fault is s...
Orbital elements: 2007 LR32 Earth MOID = 0.3189 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 106.06747 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23159311 Peri. 71.88650 +0.91651917 +0.35896278 a 2.6261466 Node 266.77672 -0.39987256 +0.83299101 e 0.5160958 Incl. 10.17994 +0.00972359 +0.42103646 P 4.26 H 17.2 G 0.15 U 1...
Orbital elements: 2009 BU5 Earth MOID = 0.0690 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 0.95483 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46083445 Peri. 337.49913 +0.96269807 -0.26599848 a 1.6599924 Node 38.03686 +0.25888484 +0.85223057 e 0.6784712 Incl. 4.61442 +0.07868336 +0.45049736 P 2.14 H 21.7 G 0.15 U 9 MPEC...
