* Astronomy

Butser Ancient Farm is a research site on Little Butser, Hampshire, England. The site is a permanent working "ancient farm" run by the Research Committee on Ancient Agriculture of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Council for British Archaeology. [url=ht...

The orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 14th April, 2009, at a distance of approximately 0.914 AU from the Sun, and a 5.04 year period. Read more

2008 XP2 Earth Impact Risk Summary Torino Scale (maximum) Palermo Scale (maximum) -5.88 Palermo Scale (cumulative) -5.88 Impact Probability (cumulative) 1.7e-09 Number of Potential Impacts 1 Vimpact 19.54 km/s Vinfinity 16.05 km/s H 18.7 Diameter 0.630 km Mass 3.4e+11 kg Energy 1.5e+04 MT al...

Orbital elements: 2008 XM1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0057 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 332.46957 (2000.0) P Q n 0.44794809 Peri. 265.91748 -0.99416468 -0.07870315 a 1.6916776 Node 269.55735 +0.10163896 -0.91253419 e 0.6767883 Incl. 4.23083 -0.03614027 -0.40135665 P 2.20 H 21.9 G 0.1...

Two teddy bears, named MAT and KMS, made history this week. With the help of a weather balloon and student-designed spacesuits, they took an adventure into Earths stratosphere. The experiment helped everyone learn more about physics and weather conditions. [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

The hybrid "Beihang-2" test rocket was successfully launched by China at 3:05 p.m. on Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province. The rocket successfully reached an altitude of 3,000 m. The payload was recovered 1.2 km south of the launch site 15 mi...

Reports are coming in from all around Colorado about a bright object in the sky on Thursday night. Chris Peterson, astronomer at Cloudbait Observatory in Guffey, Colorado, said he is receiving credible reports of the object pointing to a spectacular meteor display. The celestial spectacle occur...

Orbital elements: 2006 QJ181 Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 346.35785 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00199985 Peri. 218.99122 -0.28581193 -0.90243951 a 62.3933532 Node 249.77724 +0.94253226 -0.20398650 e 0.4933990 Incl. 20.09237 +0.17304470 -0.37946336 P 493 H 6.3 G 0.15 U 4 This object is evide...

Lake Makgadikgadi is an ancient lake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. It may have once covered as much as 80,000 km² and been 30 m deep. The Okavango, Zambezi, and Cuando rivers once all emptied into the lake. Approximately 3 million years ago, strong easterly winds brought...

Orbital elements: 2008 XA2 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0096 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 10.75632 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27448235 Peri. 334.25802 +0.96977512 -0.24180352 a 2.3449114 Node 39.77938 +0.23176057 +0.87096098 e 0.6099703 Incl. 2.92673 +0.07631022 +0.42773593 P 3.59 H 21.3 G 0.15 U...

HERALD reader Mark Grant was taking photographs of the night sky over Worthing, when a mystery light trail appeared in one of the images. Read more

Title: Observations of 1ES 0647+250 and 1ES 0806+524 with VERITAS Authors: P. Cogan, for the VERITAS collaboration Observations of the blazars 1ES 0647+250 and 1ES 0806+524 with VERITAS are reported here. These objects are among the favoured candidate extragalactic sources in the very high-en...

Title: Super-ASTROD: Probing primordial gravitational waves and mapping the outer solar system Authors: Wei-Tou Ni Super-ASTROD (Super Astrodynamical Space Test of Relativity using Optical Devices or ASTROD III) is a mission concept with 3-5 spacecraft in 5 AU orbits together with an Earth-S...

Sucker hole is a colloquial term referring to a short spate of good weather that "suckers" sailors into leaving port just in time for a storm to resume at full force. Source It's one of those informal weather terms that are quite...

Orbital Information: Keplerian elements at epoch 54800 (MJD) element value 1-sigma variation a (AU) 2.77992 8.339e-05 eccentricity 0.563968 1.237e-05 inclination (deg) 25.394 0.0001805 Asc. node (deg) 258.762 0.0001205 Arg. perih. (deg) 43.649 0.0001831 M (deg) 52.665 0.01861 [url=http...