* Astronomy

Title: Carbon and Strontium Abundances of Metal-Poor Stars Authors: David K. Lai (UCSC), Jennifer A. Johnson (OSU), Michael Bolte (UCSC), Sara Lucatello (INAF-OAPD) We present carbon and strontium abundances for 100 metal-poor stars measured from R ~ 7000 spectra obtained with the Echellette...

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Jinju mobbed by strangers crazy for meteorites After two rocks in Jinju, South Gyeongsang, were confirmed by the Korea Polar Research Institute as chondrites - pieces of meteorites - the region is being inundated with people who want to find their own space rocks, buy space rocks or take advantage o...

On 2015 March 9, asteroid (68363) 2001 OR49 will occult a 6.4 mag star in the constellation Taurus for observers along a path across Mexico, W USA. Read more

The 28 - 63 metre wide asteroid 2015 DS will make a close pass (17.1 LD, 0.0441 AU) travelling at 3.41 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th March 2015 @ 10:55 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Comet C/2014 R4 (Gibbs) is at Perihelion (1.813 AU) on the 21st October 2014 EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2014 10 20 000000 08 55 36.5 +17 21 58 1.802 1.817 74.9 31.9 16.9 2014 10 21 000000 08 57 08.9 +16 51 19 1.792 1.817 75.4 32.0 16.9 2014 10 22 000000 08 58 40.0 +16 20 26 1.782 1....

ATel 7176: Further X-ray observations of Swift J0045.2+4151 (aka Sw J0045 aka GRB 150301C aka [PFH2005] 622)

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3416894/jilin-meteorite/

The 48 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2008 DX will make a close pass (60.5 LD, 0.1555 AU) travelling at 7.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th March 2015 @ 00:05 UT ±1 day 03:46. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 140 - 320 metre wide asteroid 2015 BV515 will make a close pass (61.6 LD, 0.1583 AU) travelling at 20.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th March 2015 @ 10:26 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Comet 32P/Comas Sola is at Opposition (2.628 AU) on the 30th September, 2013.

EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 05 08 16 36 25.0 +31 20 45 4.0531 4.7212 126.3 9.9 19.3 2014 05 09 16 35 06.3 +31 35 00 4.0486 4.7179 126.4 9.9 19.3 2014 05 10 16 33 46.6 +31 49 04 4.0445 4.7146 126.4 9.9 19.3 2014 05 11 16 32 25.9 +32 02 55 4.0407 4.7114 126.5 9.9 19.3 2014 05 1...

China to launch Gaofen-2 satellite this year Read more

The Mars Express spacecraft has deployed the first of three booms that comprise its Marsis radar, which is to look for water within the Red Planet. At 1430 GMT on 4th May, a command was sent to release the boom, which forms one half of Marsis' primary antenna. The primary antenna's second boom is now due...

New paint makes tough self-cleaning surfaces A new paint that makes robust self-cleaning surfaces has been developed by a team led by UCL researchers. The coating can be applied to clothes, paper, glass and steel and when combined with adhesives, maintains its self-cleaning properties after bei...