Spider is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, 18 km east of the Mount Barnett Roadhouse on the Gibb River Road. Due to very rugged terrain the site is effectively inaccessible. The...
The Scattered-Disk Object 2007 TG422 was discovered by the Apache Point observatory on 3 Oct. 2007. q=35.561 AU Q=927.509 AU H=6.1 Diameter ~204 km MPEC 200839 -- Edited by Blobrana at 22:10, 2008-08-24
The Angolan government has formalised a project to produce, launch and operate an Angolan satellite dubbed "Angosat", Angola's official news agency ANGOP reported on Sunday. The project also includes the creation of human resources and relevant infrastructures. The Angolan gover...
A fireball hurtled across the southern Tucson sky in broad daylight Saturday morning, startling and inspiring awe in those who saw it. Chelsey Dever was working a yard sale at her grandmother's house on the Northwest Side around 10:30, she said, when she looked toward the south and saw the ball arcin...
The New Worlds Mission is a project funded by NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC), headed by Dr. Webster Cash of the University of Colorado at Boulder in conjunction with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Northrop Grumman, Southwest Research Institute and others. The project pla...
For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet. Since meteorites are mostly pieces of asteroids, this discrepancy was hard to explain...
The SU UMa-type dwarf nova Ho Del, is brightening again from a recent superoutburst (magnitude 15) . Outbursts of HO Del are relatively rare, with the shortest time periods of superoutbursts being about 740 days. The dwarf nova has a superhump period of 0.06453(6) days. Position(2000): 20h 36m 55s...
At 21:02:52 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 080822B (trigger=321376). Swift did not slew to this burst because of the Moon observing constraint. It will come out of Moon constraint early 26 Aug 08 UT. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 63.495, +25.7...
A monolithic stone was discovered at Bear Mead, 30 metres South of the River Stour, at the boundary of two fields in Bear Mead. Located at SY 986-993, it is normally covered by summer vegetation, but was known by the two neighbouring landowners. It appears to have toppled towards the South, trapping s...
U of C Professor wins prestigious award Some young boys collect baseball cards, others collect coins. But when Lawrence Grossman was growing up in Toronto, Canada, he collected minerals. Now in his thirty-sixth year of teaching University of Chicago students about mineralogy and the formation o...
The nearby star 70 Ophiuchi is one of the best-known and widely studied binary star systems. It's found in an odd V-shaped collection of five stars called Poniatowski's Bull. This strange little asterism is easy to see with the naked eye from suburban skies; if you're in the city, try your finderscop...
After four weeks of recovery efforts from the 6.7 magnitude earthquake that shook the island of Hawai'i on October 15th, the Gemini North telescope resumed regular science operations on November 1...
Title: J1420--0545: The radio galaxy larger than 3C236 Authors: J. Machalski, D. Kozie-Wierzbowska, M. Jamrozy, D.J. Saikia We report the discovery of the largest giant radio galaxy, J1420-0545: a FR type II radio source with an angular size of 17.4' identified with an optical galaxy at z=0.3067...
