The 1000 metre wide asteroid 1998 ML14 will make a close pass (21.9 lunar distances, 0.0563 AU), travelling at 10.36 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th August, 2013 @ 10:43 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (L...
The 190 - 430 metre wide asteroid 2013 PV13 made a close pass (53.8 lunar distances, 0.1381 AU), travelling at 14.92 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd August, 2013 @ 09:41 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Dista...
The 700 - 1600 metre wide asteroid 1999 CF9 made a close pass (24.7 lunar distances, 0.0634 AU), travelling at 18.92 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd August, 2013 @ 00:28 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (L...
Fossil fishes come to life in Ilminster A collection of important fossil specimens are coming back to their home town in Somerset for an outreach open day, thanks to a partnership between Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI) and the University of Bristol. [url=http://www.bris...
A Brighter Method for Measuring the Surface Gravity of Distant Stars Astronomers have found a clever new way to slice and dice the flickering light from a distant star in a way that reveals the strength of gravity at its surface. That is important because a stars surface gravity is one of the key proper...
Computer Simulations Indicate Calcium Carbonate Has a Dense Liquid Phase Computer simulations conducted at the U.S. Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could help scientists make sense of a recently observed and puzzling wrinkle in one of natures most i...
The Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago between Scotland and Iceland, could have been inhabited 500 years earlier than was previously thought, according to a startling archaeological discovery. The islands were thought to have been colonized by the Vikings in the 9th century AD. However, datin...
Using a giant telescope on Mauna Kea Hawaii is a dream for most amateur sky watchers. Recently a Canadian amateur astronomy group took advantage of a rare opportunity and used one of the largest telescopes in the world, the Gemini 8-meter telescope, to look more deeply into the remains of a particula...
S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks, P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin on behalf of the Konus-RF team, report: The first short burst from the newly discovered SGR 0418+5729 (van der Horst et al., GCN 9499) triggered Konus-RF gamma-ray spectrometer on-board the CORONA...
BBC film crew arrested sneaking into Nevada's Area 51 'UFO base' Military personnel arrested a BBC film crew at the secret Area 51 military base in Nevada where UFO conspiracy theorists claim US authorities are keeping bodies of aliens and debris of an ET "flying disc" that crashed in Ros...
ISRO to test indigenous cryogenic stage onboard GSLV-D5 India will undertake the flight test of its indigenous cryogenic stage onboard homegrown rocket GSLV-D5 which will launch GSAT-14 by the middle of 2012, a top ISRO official has said. A facility for static testing of the cryogenic engine woul...
A Milton of Balgonie man has turned up another rare meteorite.
Rob Elliot found the space rock - the first of its kind ever discovered in Britain - in the Yorkshire Dales last August.
The 40lb rock is a pallasite, a metallic meteorite which is packed with semi-precious gemstones.
It's the lates...
A portable astronomical watch known as an astrolabe, made in Joseon Dynasty in the late 18th Century, had been found and returned to Korea. Jeon Sang-un, a science historian and member of the Cultural Properties Committee, said on Thursday that he bought and brought the astrolabe that a Japanese pe...
The giant reptiles that flew above the earth until about 65 million years ago could have grown to twice the size originally thought with wingspans of at least 18 meters, a palaeontologist said on Thursday.
That would be roughly five times bigger than an albatross, which ranks among the birds with t...
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