* Astronomy

In the true spirit of the British bureaucrat, scientists at a top secret atomic energy research centre were ordered to calculate the precise chances of being killed by a meteorite while out for a stroll. In 1980, while debates on nuclear safety raged as fiercely as they do today, Whitehall did no...

The 1100 - 2500 metre wide asteroid 2003 SD220 will make a close pass (59.8 lunar distances, 0.1536 AU), travelling at 10.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd December, 2012 @ 04:02 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km...

Title: XMM-Newton Observation of the alpha Persei Cluster Authors: Ignazio Pillitteri, Nancy Remage Evans, Scott J. Wolk, Megan Bruck Syal We report on the analysis of an archival observation of part of the alpha Persei cluster obtained with XMM-Newton. We detected 102 X-ray sources in the band 0...

Ok (rhyming with 'talk') is a 1198 meters high dormant shield volcano with a central crater located to the west of Langjökull in the west of Iceland. In Icelandic Ok means load or yoke. The volcano erupted during interglacials in the Pleistocene (2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago). A late Pleistocene er...

The Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, announced on April 23rd that they are now accepting proposals for a microprobe to be piggybacked on the launch of Venus Climate Orbiter, their upcoming robotic mission to Venus. They will provide a free ride to either a low-Earth orbit or on a trajectory toward Venu...

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Despite the success of general relativity, one of the most important problems in modern physics is finding a theory of quantum gravity that reconciles the continuous nature of gravitational fields with the inherent 'graininess' of quantum mechanics. Recently, Petr Horava at Lawrence Berkeley...

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ATel 8373: MASTER-Tunka: bright dwarf nova outburst

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 02:45:30 (UTC) on Monday, January 24, 2011, in the Tajikistan region, 90 km SW of Karakul, at a depth of 98.6 km. Location 38.461°N, 72.753°E

Most of the carbon supporting life on Earth was forged by red giant stars that never exploded, say astronomers in Michigan and Sweden. These stars cast the carbon into space when they blew off their outer atmospheres and became white dwarfs. Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen--atomic numbers 6, 7, a...

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Orbital elements: 2010 XA68 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0488 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 316.13393 (2000.0) P Q n 0.79145801 Peri. 107.47827 -0.55036759 -0.10967820 a 1.1574906 Node 74.34084 -0.47077419 -0.77795227 e 0.3015157 Incl. 59.27075 +0.68954128 -0.61867678 P 1.25 H...

Storm Desmond brings flooding and disruption to parts of UK High-speed winds and heavy rain are causing severe disruption as Storm Desmond continues to batter the UK. People were evacuated from their homes as flash flooding swept through parts of Cumbria, and police in the area declared a "ma...

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