Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time. At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics, or so we are told at school where our textbooks abound with his famous experiments with lenses and prisms, his study of the nature of light and its reflection, and th...
Orbital elements: 2008 YC33 Earth MOID = 0.0938 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 302.96064 (2000.0) P Q n 0.63891157 Peri. 245.48377 -0.90699992 -0.36852577 a 1.3350849 Node 272.35320 +0.42065995 -0.81569509 e 0.2656926 Incl. 11.77011 -0.01990879 -0.44590389 P 1.54 H 24.3 G 0.15 U...
2004 VD17 is a near-Earth asteroid that was discovered on November 7, 2004 by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey. The object is roughly 580 metres in diameter and has a low but non-zero probability of impacting Earth within the next 100 years.
It has, since November 22, 2004, been topping th...
Hundreds of children in Shillong watched with great enthusiasm and expectations as a film took them on a journey to the making of Chandrayaan-I here at the ongoing 96th Indian Science Congress, ISC -2009. The film was brought to them by none other than Prof. M.G.K. Menon, an emminent scientist and th...
A magnitude 15.8 supernova, 2008ig, was discovered by Alessandro Dimai (CROSS Program) on the 16th December, 2008, in the peculiar galaxy ESO 269-20 in the constellation Centaurus. The supernova is located 24" West and 16" South from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown....
A type IIP magnitude 17.2 supernova, 2009B, was discovered by Tom Boles on the 2nd January, 2009, in the galaxy UGC 4423 in the constellation Camelopardalis. The supernova is located 8' West and 7' South from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA =08 30 51.47, Dec = +74 41 08.1 [url=http://...
A type IIb magnitude 17.8 supernova, 2009C, was discovered by LOSS on the 2nd January, 2009, in the galaxy UGC 12433 in the constellation Andromeda. The supernova is located 11' West and 11' North from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA =23 13 42.84, Dec = +49 40 47.2[url=http://www.cf...
A type Ia magnitude 16.5 supernova, 2009D, was discovered by LOSS on the 2nd January, 2009, in the galaxy MCG -03-10-52 in the constellation Eridanus. The supernova is located 26' West and 31' North from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA =03 54 22.83, Dec = -19 10 54.2[url=http://www....
Orbital elements: 2006 VA3 Earth MOID = 0.2902 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 319.51464 (2000.0) P Q n 0.48572072 Peri. 307.76054 +0.07245757 +0.80666492 a 1.6027962 Node 313.00804 -0.45405616 -0.49693965 e 0.6790000 Incl. 53.33223 -0.88802191 +0.31991045 P 2.03 H 17.2 G 0.15 U 4...
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale rocked the Kashmir valley early on Sunday, jolting residents out of their sleep in panic. "A 6.4 quake struck the Valley at 1.53am on Sunday. The epicentre of the quake was located in the Hindukush region with latitude 36.5 degrees north and long...
A magnitude 16 supernova, 2009A, was discovered by Pignata et al. (CHASE) on the 2nd January, 2009, in an anonymous galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The supernova is located 6' West and 7' North from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position(2000): RA =01 52 44.34, Dec = -03 23...
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of astrophysics topics during the 213th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. The meeting runs from Sunday, Jan. 4, through Thursday, Jan. 8, at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Centre, 300 East Ocean Blvd., Long Bea...
Orbital elements: 2008 WQ63 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0083 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 325.12570 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43096744 Peri. 228.04329 -0.99438099 +0.10529627 a 1.7358269 Node 317.99752 -0.09166003 -0.90798866 e 0.6066908 Incl. 0.93467 -0.05296126 -0.40554813 P 2.29 H 20.1 G 0....
Orbital elements: 2008 YY32 Earth MOID = 0.0038 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 340.77319 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32445595 Peri. 211.76653 -0.71713541 -0.68934270 a 2.0974851 Node 284.28811 +0.65954486 -0.62370691 e 0.5525943 Incl. 6.07663 +0.22520520 -0.36850555 P 3.04 H 25.2 G 0.15 U 7...
