The 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference will be held March 12–16, 2007. The five-day conference will be held at the South Shore Harbour Resort & Conference Centre. Parallel sessions for oral presentations will be held in Crystal Ballroom A, Crystal Ballroom B, the Marina Plaza Ballro...
Engineers at UC San Diego have built a powerful yet ultrathin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens. This technology may yield lightweight, ultrathin, high resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision applications. Credit:...
Russia has postponed the launch of a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia for 24 hours.
According to Alexei Kuznetsov, a Space Forces spokesperson, the launch of the carrier rocket with a Meridian reconnaissance satellite, originally scheduled for 08:40 UT...
Title: Swift Observations of GRB 051109B Authors: E. Troja, G. Cusumano, V. LaParola, V.Mangano, T. Mineo (INAF - IASFPA) We present Swift observations of GRB 051109B, a soft long burst triggered by the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). The soft photon index of the prompt emission suggest it is a X-ray F...
2006 AM4 was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey (University of Arizona) on January 8, 2006. The asteroid will approach within 0.013 AU (5.2 lunar distances) on February 1. Its physical properties are unknown, but its absolute magnitude of 21.8 suggests a diameter within a factor of two of 140 met...
It was a piece of Mars that set ASU geology professor Meenakshi “Mini” Wadhwa on a career investigating meteorites. At the time, Wadhwa, who directs the Centre for Meteorite Studies in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, was a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis and newly a...
G11.2-0.3 is a circularly symmetric supernova remnant that contains a dense, rotating dead star at its centre, representing a textbook case of what the remnant of an exploding star should look like after a couple thousand years. When a massive star collapses, the outer layers of the star are blown a...
BLUEsat is an innovative low cost micro-satellite being built by students at UNSW. The satellite is scheduled to be completed and ready for launch by the end of 2008. BLUEsat has two main functionalities: · Primary: to provide a packet-store-and-forward service to the worldwide amateur radio com...
More than 140 scientists and researchers from 22 countries have attended the weeklong POLinSAR 2007 workshop, “Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry,” hosted at ESRIN, ESA’s Earth Observation centre in Frascati, Italy, to hear the first space borne resu...
Grace Walters thought the fireball she saw yesterday afternoon was heading for her Te Kauwhata home. She was one of a number of people who said they saw a fireball over Lake Waikare in northern Waikato, but this morning the search was called off for a possible plane crash. Yesterday, two golfers repor...
A Hillsborough County resident's Ford Mustang was destroyed by a large slab of ice that fell from the clear Florida sky directly onto the automobile on Sunday. Read more
Mercury: starts the month in the constellation Sagittarius and is at superior conjunction on January 7, and moves into the evening sky. . At magnitude -1.0, The planet is low in the evening sky and difficult to see.
(On January 23rd, RA=21h08m01s Dec=-18°23.8' (J2000) Distance=1.293AU...
