On July 29, 2008, A. Boattini (MT. Lemmon Survey) announced the discovery of a new comet, which was confirmed by R. Holmes (Astronomical Research Observatory, Charleston). The preliminary orbital elements of the comet C/2008 O3 (Boattini) indicate a perihelion passage on June 1, 2008, at a dist...
Rock scientists from across the world will meet in southern Britain's coastal resort of Brighton from March 12-16, to put together the first geological map of Earth in a bid to better understand the planet. The OneGeology project, bringing together scientists from more than 55 countries, wil...
A SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket (Flight 003 mission) may launch the Trailblazer spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) initiative's Jumpstart mission; a space burial payload for...
Title: HD 98800: A most unusual debris disc Authors: P.E. Verrier (Cambridge), N.W. Evans (Cambridge) The dynamics of planetesimals in the circumbinary debris disc of the quadruple star system HD 98800 are investigated. Evolving a spherical shell of test particles from a million years ago to the...
Title: Using Ultra Long Period Cepheids to Extend the Cosmic Distance Ladder to 100 Mpc and Beyond Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, K. Z. Stanek, Jose L. Prieto We examine the properties of 17 long period (80-180 days) and very luminous (median absolute magnitude of M_I= -7.93 and M_V= -7.03) Cepheids to s...
Eclipse inspires homemade observatory revival Russian town to rehab rickety wooden tower capped with aluminium dome From a garden bursting with roses, violets, burgeoning cabbages and broken furniture in the remote West Siberian town of Barnaul rises a rickety wooden tower capped with an alumi...
Title: TEST - The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope Authors: Philipp Eigmüller, Jochen Eislöffel The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope (TEST) is a robotic telescope system. The telescope uses a folded Schmidt Camera with a 300mm main mirror. The focal length is 940mm and it gives a 2.2 s...
The cell phone-sized, 4-ounce stone felt warm in his clutch. Maybe the sun was heating it up, he thought, but as he grabbed other shards of concrete nearby for comparison, they were all cool, and he was mystified. He immediately thought one thing: meteorite. [url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/a...
Title: A Search for Exotrojans in Transiting Exoplanetary systems Authors: N. Madhusudhan, Joshua N. Winn We present a search for Trojan companions to 25 transiting exoplanets. We use the technique of Ford & Gaudi 2006, in which a difference is sought between the observed transit time and the...
Astronomers at Chabot Space & Science Centre have joined an elite team of cosmic watchdogs. Scanning the night sky for objects that could one day cross paths with our planet, a telescope at Chabot is now used to contribute to the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Centre's search fo...
A strong magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurred at 18:42:15 (UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in the greater Los Angeles area, 3 km SW from Chino Hills, California, at a depth of 12.3 km. Location 33.959°N, 117.752°W
Mercury in constellation Cancer has a solar conjunction today at around 21:00 UT. The planet is only 1.7° from the centre of Sun, so observation of the event is best viewed by remote satellites, such as SOHO. Ma...
July days may be blistering, but its nights are full of cool astronomical sights. The southern horizon belongs to Scorpius, the celestial scorpion, which climbs into the southeastern sky as night falls in early July. Scorpius is one of the 12 signs of the zodiac, that band of constellations through...
A POSSIBILITY OF A TUNGUSKA METEORITE FRAGMENT FALLING IN LESOSIBIRSK
Author: V.I. Kharevich
Lesosibirsk Pedagogical Institute, Kras. State University 63131, Lesosibirsk, 42, Pobeda St., Russia
The mirror-smooth surface of the jewel of Eastern Siberia, the Baikal Lake r...
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