International Science Teams Selected for Aquarius/SAC-D Mission NASA and Argentina's Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), with support from the Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovative Production (MinCyT), have selected additional members of the interna...
The 15 - 33 metre wide asteroid 2015 KS57 will make a close pass (18.1 LD, 0.0465 AU) travelling at 8.30 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th June 2015 @ 02:00 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 35 - 78 metre wide asteroid 2015 KW56 will make a close pass (51.1 LD, 0.1314 AU) travelling at 4.46 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th June 2015 @ 20:23 UT ±1 day 10:47. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Title: Hubble Space Telescope FUV Spectra of the Post-Common-Envelope Hyades Binary V471 Tauri Authors: E. M. Sion, H. E. Bond, D. Lindler, P. Godon, D. Wickramasinghe, L. Ferrario, J. Dupuis We have carried out an analysis of the HST STIS archival spectra of the magnetic white dwarf in the Hyades e...
North Korea says it faces worst drought in a century North Korea says it is facing its worst drought in a century, sparking fears of worsening food shortages. State news agency KCNA said main rice-growing provinces had been badly affected and more than 30% of rice paddies were "parching up&quo...
Sir Tim Hunt resigns from university role over girls comment A Nobel laureate has resigned from his position as honorary professor at a UK university after he made comments about the "trouble with girls" in science. University College London (UCL) said Sir Tim Hunt - a Royal Society fell...
The 33 - 75 metre wide asteroid 2015 LG will make a close pass (8.8 LD, 0.0227 AU) travelling at 10.02 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th June 2015 @ 08:53 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 20 - 45 metre wide asteroid 2015 KD23 will make a close pass (40.3 LD, 0.1035 AU) travelling at 4.97 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th June 2015 @ 10:02 UT ±00:28. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 40 - 90 metre wide asteroid 2015 LQ21 will make a close pass (12.9 LD, 0.0333 AU) travelling at 7.83 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th June 2015 @ 18:58 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 13 - 30 metre wide asteroid 2015 MA will make a close pass (1.7 LD, 0.0044 AU) travelling at 16.22 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th June 2015 @ 02:08 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
NASA administrator Michael Griffin has decided to further extend the mission of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft, used in hurricane forecasting, perhaps until 2010; even though such an extension would make it impossible to carry out a controlled re-entry.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Is Ten Years Old Today Expand Robert Nemiroff (left) and persistent Jerry Bonnell (right) have brought compelling images of the cosmos that are not limited to those taken fr...
Possible nova in Sagittarius discovered by John Seach, Chatsworth Island, NSW, Australia. Magnitude 6.0 object visible on 3 images taken with DSLR and 50mm f/1.0 lens, limiting magnitude 11.0. Read more
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