* Astronomy

Are you interested in astronomy? If so, mark your calendar for one of the Evenings of Observing at The Bank of Kentucky Observatory at Thomas More College. Each evening will include a brief talk in the Science Lecture Hall about what you will see in the skies that evening, followed by an opportunity t...

UNIVerse is a 3D Instant Messenger (IM) utilising Jabber Technology. Jabber allows interoperability with the major IM protocols; UNIVerse supports AIM/ICQ/Jabber services. UNIVerses 3D Interface hosts 3D characters that represent online buddies/contacts; the interface is essentially a b...

Ad Astra Rocket Company in Liberia On July 15, 2006 a new space rocket facility was inaugurated in Liberia Costa Rica. The new site on the property of the Earth University is the Costa Rican sector of the Ad Astra Rocket Company (AARC) set up by Dr Franklin Chang Diaz, the Costa Rican physicist and ast...

Meades new handheld, interactive sky exploration guide, mySKY, is recognised for its unique ability to identify and define the night sky to any user, earning it renowned attention and praise. For its innovation in technology and scientific educational value, mySKY has also attracted the attent...

"Origins", a new Franco-Chinese International Associated Laboratory in Astrophysics On October 22nd in Beijing, France and China set up Origins, an International Associated Laboratory (LIA) in Astrophysics. The LIA will work in three main areas the origin of matter and energy in th...

Space Museum to be refurbished The Space Museum will be given a facelift to offer more innovative and tailor-made services to visitors, its curator Chan Ki-hung says. Renovation work will be conducted over the coming years to upgrade the museum's environment and facilities. The Stanley Ho Space T...

The Teide volcanic peak on the island of Tenerife acted as a mock-up of the Moon landscape last week, with eight European student teams tuning, testing and driving their lunar rovers in preparation for a robotics competition that took place during the dark nights of last weekend. Roving on the Moon i...

Asteroid 2008 UB7 Orbital elements: 2008 UB7 Earth MOID = 0.0009 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 340.78255 (2000.0) P Q n 0.72056938 Peri. 287.49212 -0.84015731 -0.54187957 a 1.2322122 Node 219.70426 +0.50995097 -0.77523704 e 0.5914715 Incl. 2.01038 +0.18462314 -0.32461370 P 1....

Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft's own data centres. Dubbed Windows Azure, it's less a replacement for the operating system that runs on one's own PC than it is an alternative for developers, intended to let them write programs tha...

Bosses at the Tower of London are buying four extra Ravens in a bid to prevent a 350-year old curse from coming true. Ravens have been kept at the Tower of London since the 1800s when King Charles II was told if there were less than six ravens a disaster would strike the nation and the Royal Family. [url=ht...

A cyclonic storm in the northwest Bay of Bengal formed last night and is currently close to the coast of Bangladesh.

Absolute Magnitude (H) 24.09 Slope parameter (G) 0.15 Perihelion (AU) 0.9398 Aphelion (AU) 2.9293 Asc. node-Earth sep. (AU) 0.00674 Desc. node-Earth sep. (AU) 1.38962 Earth MOID (AU) 0.00118 Orbital period (days) 982.801 Date of orbit computation Oct 7 09:11 [url=http://newton.dm.unipi.it...

Asteroid 2008 US4 Orbital elements: 2008 US4 Earth MOID = 0.0766 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 354.19644 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27947055 Peri. 72.60840 -0.23005048 -0.96590764 a 2.3169252 Node 31.46183 +0.78401480 -0.25623298 e 0.6313325 Incl. 13.15003 +0.57653930 -0.03697418 P 3.5...

Callers contacted U.S. Coast Guard stations on the California coast late Saturday night about a bright green light in the sky, some fearing it was a boat distress signal. It was apparently remnants of a meteor shower, said Coast Guard officials. [url=http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/200...

Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 33.56645 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24591521 Peri. 152.69823 -0.75464242 -0.65594954 a 2.5231658 Node 346.27520 +0.58931566 -0.66710829 e 0.7460333 Incl. 3.78278 +0.28848200 -0.35312424 P 4.01 H 15.7 G 0.15 U 3 From 41 observations at 3 oppositions, 1960-2007,...