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The expectations have been more than fulfilled: to date, a total of 2.1 million people have visited the Science Express, which will, for the time being, roll into its last destination, New Delhi, on June 4th. To mark the occasion, the Indian government has extended an invitation to a celebratory eve...
Title: A cool starspot or a second transiting planet in the TrES-1 system? Authors: M. Rabus, R. Alonso, J. A. Belmonte, H. J. Deeg, R. L. Gilliland, J. M. Almenara Villa, T. M. Brown, D. Charbonneau, G. Mandushev We investigate the origin of a flux increase found during a transit of TrES-1, observed w...
Title: The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Detector Design, Performance, and Sensitivity for 2006-2007 Balloon Flight Authors: ANITA collaboration: P. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), S. Barwick (2), J. Beatty (3), D. Besson (4), W. Binns (5), C. Chen (6), P. Chen (...
Title: On the morphology of the compact dust shell in the symbiotic system HM Sagittae Authors: Stéphane Sacuto (IfA), Olivier Chesneau (FIZEAU) The symbiotic system HM Sagittae consists of a Mira star and a secondary White Dwarf component. The dust content of the system was severely affected by t...
When a U.S. space shuttle rockets to the International Space Station in October, it will carry something very personal belonging to more than 800 students and faculty of Robert Abbott Middle School. The Waukegan school body will no doubt be watching via satellite when their digitised signatures t...
Two deputies investigated the sighting of unidentified flying objects in the sky south of Brady Nov. 21, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer. Although both deputies and the man who called to report the lights dancing in the sky observed them for more than 15 minutes, they could offer n...
The Sphinx in Egypt might have originally had the face of a lion, it is claimed. And it could be much older than previously thought, investigations led by a British geologist suggest. Egyptologists have long argued the monument outside Cairo, which has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion, was b...
The International Space Station 2009 calendar is now available online. As part of NASA's celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station, the agency is offering a special 2009 calendar to the general public to download and print out. The calendar contains photographs take...
Title: Discovery of Large-Scale Gravitational Infall in a Possible Massive Protostellar Cluster Authors: Peter J. Barnes, Yoshinori Yonekura, Stuart D. Ryder, Andrew M. Hopkins, Yosuke Miyamoto, Naoko Furukawa, Yasuo Fukui (Version v2) We report Mopra (ATNF), Anglo-Australian Telescope,...
Title: A New Feature in the Spectrum of the Superluminous LMC Supergiant HDE 269896 Authors: Mariela A. Corti (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia, CCT-LP, CONICET, and Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Nolan R. Walborn (Space Telescope Science Institute), Christopher J. Evans (Royal Ob...
Title: A search of very low amplitude magnetoacoustic pulsations with HARPS Authors: O. Kochukhov, T. Ryabchikova, S. Bagnulo and G. Lo Curto We have obtained time-resolved spectroscopic observations for a sample of 10 cool Ap stars using the ultra-stable spectrograph HARPS at the ESO 3.6-m tel...
Orbital elements: 2008 XU2 Earth MOID = 0.0054 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 5.94099 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25481419 Peri. 333.62864 +0.80439929 -0.59216198 a 2.4640734 Node 62.76393 +0.55412646 +0.71883788 e 0.6237529 Incl. 3.08250 +0.21420933 +0.36416520 P 3.87 H 25.5 G 0.15 U 7 MPEC...