In September 1974, Jupiter was in opposition, near its closest point to Earth. Astronomer Charlie Kowal was on Mount Palomar, photographing the sky around Jupiter with a 48-inch telescope on three successive nights. Since the telescope had been set to track Jupiter in its slow slide across the bac...
Capricornus 3 degree sky near the globular cluster Pal 12 in the outer galactic halo
Position(2000): RA 21:48:27.19 Dec -21:05:26.09
Sunday 21 May 2006 03:12:11 UTC
20 second exposure
(Palomar-12) Pal-12 is 63,000 light years away at RA: 21 46 38.8 DEC: -21 15 03
The University of Tuebingen has cleared out their cellars and found some forgotten meteorites.
The Tuebingen meteorite collection had been on display before, but the museum is now planning to build a new extension to house them in.
The University currently has 1000 meteorite specimens fro...
A former Nazi scientist who was linked to experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp in Germany has been ousted from the US International Space Hall of Fame.
Hubertus Strughold, who had been honoured in 1978 for work in developing the spacesuit and space capsule and for his contr...
The Allied Defence Group, Inc. (Amex: ADG) announces the receipt of two follow-on contract awards from Bigelow Aerospace.
The new orders are for SeaSpace's 6.1-meter AXYOM 3-axis tracking antennas. The SeaSpace AXYOM Model 50 provides a very high performance, and economical solution, for...
Scientists have uncovered a class of gold atom clusters that are the first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes known as buckyballs.
The evidence for what their discoverers call “hollow golden cages” appeared today in the online early edition of the Proce...
Tropical Storm Chanchu formed in the western Pacific on May 8, 2006, roughly 500 miles east of the Philippines. The storm gradually built strength and size, reaching typhoon strength by May 11. It lost some strength as it crossed the Philippines, but once clear of the islands, it regained power and b...
The Watson iron meteorite (93kg) was found in 1972 in the Nullarbor Plain, near Watson, South Australia (30° 30` S, 131° 33` E). It was first cut in 1990. The second slice (19 x 24 cm) revealed a large mass of silicate rock (achondritic stone) embedded in the metal, an estimated...
NASA's Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology spacecraft was launched from an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL vehicle on Friday, April 15 2005 during the 7-minute launch window (1721 - 17:28 GMT) at 1726 GMT.
the Pegasus was dropped from a L-1011 carrier aircraft over the Pacif...
Equinox6 Planetarium Software - (Shareware)
Equinox 6 is a universal application that will run on both PPC and Intel Macintosh computers. This powerful planetarium program has many features for both the beginner and advanced astronomer. It has filters for organizing deep sky objec...
Steven S. Tuma, the author of Deepsky Astronomy Software is releasing a free version of his popular observation planning software called Deepsky FREE
http://www.deepskysoftware.net/DeepskyFree.html
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The "Meeting on Asteroids and Comets in Europe", MACE 2006, will be held from Friday, May 12 to Sunday, May 14, 2006, in Vienna, Austria.
MACE is a am-pro-meeting, open to anyone interested in the exploration of the minor bodies of the solar system.
The meeting venue will at the histori...
Maverick entrepreneur Datuk Jaafar Jamaludin loves chasing shooting stars and now, he has a collection of meteorites worth some RM40 million. Jaafar, who is a collector and astronomy enthusiast, said many Malaysians are unfamiliar with meteorites or their potential in being turned into money-...
