Preparations for the first launch of this year of Proton-M launch vehicle with Arabsat 4A communications satellite are in progress on Baikonur launch site.
Foreign specialists with the help of the Khrunichev team started preparations of the clean room where the satellite will be pre...
Comet P/1999 WJ7 = Comet P/2008 R4 (Korlevic) The magnitude 17.9 comet P/1999 WJ7 was discovered on the 28th November, 1999 by Korado Korlevic (Visnjan). Comet P/1999 WJ7 was recovered by H.T. Bressi and J.V. Scotti on September 9, 2008 with the 0.9-m f/3 Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak, telesco...
The 3.7 km wide Amor NEO 8567 (1996 HW1) will pass 0.135076 AU (53 Lunar Distances) from the Earth-moon system on the 12th September, 2008. The asteroid will appear as a slow moving magnitude 12 star in the constellation Pisces. The asteroid was discovered by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak on the 23rd Apri...
Approximately 500 planetary and space scientists will gather for EPSC 2008, which is to be hosted by the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Schloßplatz, Münster. The programme is now available for the third European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC), which will take place in Münster, Germany...
A ULA Delta 2 rocket will launch the military NAVSTAR GPS 2R-19 (M6) Global Positioning System Block 2R navigation satellite, from SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral, Florida at 06:09-06:23 GMT, March 15, 2008.
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Fairy Devices Inc a Japanese company that was formed by researchers at the Waseda University have released StellarWindow. StellarWindow transforms your laptop or tablet PC into a real-time guided planetarium. A USB stick that incorporates tilt sensors and a magnet lets the software know whic...
Title: Visual orbit of GJ 164 AB Authors: Frantz Martinache, Barbara Rojas-Ayala, Michael J. Ireland, James P. Lloyd, Peter G. Tuthill We report seven successful observations of the astrometric binary GJ 164 AB system with aperture masking interferometry. The companion, with a near infrared co...
A magnitude 14.9 supernova, 2008fl, was discovered by Pignata et al. at the Chilean Automatic Supernova Search (CHASE) on the 7th September, 2008, in the elliptical galaxy NGC 6805 in the constellation Sagittarius. The supernova is located 10".3 west and 11".1 north from the center o...
"Observations by Canton men of the large meteor which swept over and was plainly visible in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio on October 5 last," said an article in The Repository in September 1908, "play an important part in a scientific discussion of this phenomenon in a U.S. weat...
An asteroid cruising through the solar system six years ago seemed just another silent ship sailing in the eternal darkness, until it flared up with the startling brightness of a comet's halo. Just like that, the space rock known as NEO 2001 OG108 was re-classified as C/2001 OG108 in 2002, from aster...
One of Europe's largest science festivals will visit Liverpool, European Capital of Culture '08, from 6 - 11 September. Our week long, jam- packed programme offers the biggest celebration of science, engineering and technology in Europe. With loads of events for everyone, join us in and around Li...
A new cataclysmic variable, WZ Sge-type dwarf Nova And 08, with large amplitude outburst has been discovered. Outburst magnitude of approximately V=12.5 (Unfiltered). Source (subscription) http://www.astroalert.su/2...
A retired NASA engineer trying to invent a cheap way for average people to travel to space caused a bang in Hitch**** on Saturday morning when his rocket fuel exploded, police said. Jim Akkerman, president of Advent Launch Services, accidentally caused the explosion as he was working on a spacecraf...
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