China has successfully orbited its third meteorological satellite, the Fengyun-2-06, the country's central television CCTV reported on Tuesday. The satellite was launched from the XiChang Satellite Launch Centre, in southwest China at 08:54 a.m. local time (00:54 a.m. GMT) on board a Chang Zh...
Look to the southwest after sunset on Dec. 1 for a close conjunction between three bright solar system objects: the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter. If you have binoculars, you might even be able to fit all three of them in the field of view. Between now and then, you can see Jupiter and Venus getting closer tog...
A chemistry experiment that has been off limits to college students for more than a century can now be performed safely thanks to a procedure developed at Indiana State University using a popular laundry product.
The procedure, known as the [url=http://www.organic-chemistry.org/frames.... >
The 2005 base-closure commission ordered that Brooks City-Base's historic centrifuge be dismantled and moved to Ohio, but after going around and around on the matter, the Air Force decided to leave it here. Now, the agency running City-Base is mapping big plans to market the centrifuge, which has...
Canadas place in time The Dominion Observatory opened in 1905 as a showpiece with a 15-inch telescope, thick sandstone walls and a metal dome. It's prime focus wasn't the skies, though. It was charting the nation's official time and longitude. [url=http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Canada+plac...
A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured by NASAs Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations of the cluster known as MACS J0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated the dark from ordinary matter and provide an independent confirma...
A magnitude 15,9 , type II supernova, 2008ij, was discovered by Koichi Itagaki on the 19th December 2008, in the spiral galaxy NGC 6643 in the constellation Draco The supernova is located 23" east and 11" south from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA = 18h19m51s.81, Dec = +74°3...
Arianespace Flight 186 Set for End November With Eutelsat's HOT BIRD(TM) 9 and W2M Satellites Arianespace and Eutelsat communications confirm that the upcoming launch of the Ariane 5 ECA will orbit Eutelsat's HOT BIRD(TM) 9 and W2M satellites. The launch of Flight 186 is planned to take plac...
Orbital elements: 2008 ED69 Earth MOID = 0.2853 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 29.09693 (2000.0) P Q n 0.20109021 Peri. 172.69593 +0.80668308 +0.51104648 a 2.8854182 Node 149.89517 -0.56773136 +0.80961443 e 0.7496744 Incl. 36.28044 -0.16414479 -0.28871434 P 4.90 H 17.0 G 0.15 U 3...
An ILS Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage is to launch the Lockheed Martin-built AMERICOM 14 communications spacecraft, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 23:18 GMT, March 14th 2008.
A Delta rocket II Rocket Body that was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on the 25th October, 2008, for the COSMO-SkyMed 3 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 21st December, 2008 @ 17:37 GMT ± 48 hours. Period: 92.09 Inclination: 98.36° Apogee: 568 Perigee...
Passage graves from an astronomical perspective Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could have an astronomical explanation. The Danish passage graves are most lik...
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