The 390 - 870 metre wide asteroid 2009 CR4 is to make a close pass (56.1 Lunar Distances, 0.1440 AU), travelling at 9.68 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th May, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance bet...
The 38 - 84 metre wide asteroid 2014 JN2 will make a close pass (27.0 lunar distances, 0.0694 AU), travelling at 19.79 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th May 2014 @ 16:04 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 15 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2014 JD will make a close pass (7.7 lunar distances, 0.0197 AU), travelling at 10.46 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th May 2014 @ 23:49 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Colin Pillinger, the man who led the ill-fated Beagle mission to mars, has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Colin Pillinger, son of a Bristol utility worker, has already begun work on the next mars explorer, Beagal Evolution.
He gained his PhD from the Univer...
China is likely to build its fourth satellite launch centre in the southern island province of Hainan.
The provincial government is working to persuade the central government to approve the massive project, which is expected to be located in Wenchang, in the northeast of the island.
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Noogata (Fall: 9th May. 861) Type: Stone L6 History: Found on the day after fall day, It was put into a paulownia box and stored in a shinto shrine. Read more
Sun 07.05.14: image captured with a 100mm refractor (hazy conditions) Sun 07.05.14: Processed image captured with a 100mm refractor (hazy conditions) Sun 07.05.14: Sunspots 12056, 12055, 12054 and 12053 Sun 07.05.14: image captured with a 100mm refractor (hazy conditions)
Title: Discovery of a new Wolf-Rayet star and a candidate star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud with Spitzer Author: V.V. Gvaramadze, A.-N. Chene, A.Y. Kniazev, O. Schnurr, T. Shenar, A. Sander, R. Hainich, N. Langer, W.-R. Hamann, Y.-H. Chu, R.A. Gruendl We report the first-ever discovery o...
Title: An interaction scenario of the galaxy pair NGC 3893/96 (KPG 302). A single passage? Author: R. F. Gabbasov, M. Rosado, J. Klapp Using the data obtained previously from Fabry-Perot interferometry, we study the orbital characteristics of the interacting pair of galaxies KPG 302 with the aim...
The formation of molecular hydrogen in the interstellar medium (ISM) is a process of fundamental importance
Recent experimental results about the formation of molecular hydrogen on astrophysically relevant surfaces under conditions close to those encountered in the interstellar...
Germany: The radio telescope in EffelsbergClick to Play | View Details Effelsberg is an important part of the worldwide network of radio telescopes. The combination of different telescopes in interferometric mode makes possible to obtain the sharpest images of the universe. Since its inaugura...
The 17 - 37 metre wide asteroid 2014 HE177 will make a close pass (19.1 lunar distances, 0.0492 AU), travelling at 5.95 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th May 2014 @ 04:49 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
Orbital elements: 2010 KX7 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0311 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 170.53218 (2000.0) P Q n 1.01365301 Peri. 59.51426 -0.24317590 -0.93514844 a 0.9814688 Node 46.96067 +0.72436492 -0.35170827 e 0.1676226 Incl. 20.63803 +0.64510538 +0.04241101 P 0.97 H 21.9 G 0.15...
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