Camille Guillaume Bigourdan (April 6, 1851 - February 28, 1932) was a French astronomer. In 1877 he was appointed by Félix Tisserand as assistant astronomer at the Toulouse Observatory, and in 1879 followed Tisserand to the Paris Observatory when the latter became director there. [url=http://e...
Myleene Angela Klass has been an amateur astronomer for most of her life, having been taught the basics by her father. She was one of only a handful of celebrities, engineers and scientists who were at the UK London "control centre" for the touch-down of the UK Mars probe Beagle 2 in the earl...
Orbital elements:
2013 GN3 Earth MOID = 0.0542 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 59.99427 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.72552065 Peri. 288.18349 -0.60247270 -0.79785166
a 1.2265997 Node 198.91211 +0.75499685 -0.56099184
e 0.1845113 Incl. 3.79157 +0.25885595 -0.22072807
P 1.36 H 23.6 G 0...
University of Manchester archaeologists have started the excavation of an enormous building complex in Iraq, thought to be around 4,000 years old. The team, directed by Professor Stuart Campbell and Dr Jane Moon, both from Manchester, and independent archaeologist Robert Killick, first spott...
Light and dust in a nearby starburst galaxy Visible as a small, sparkling hook in the dark sky, this beautiful object is known as J082354.96+280621.6, or J082354.96 for short. It is a starburst galaxy, so named because of the incredibly (and unusually) high rate of star formation occurring within i...
Orbital elements: 2011 BH10 Earth MOID = 0.1404 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 7.71721 (2000.0) P Q n 0.53482179 Peri. 81.90769 +0.67643887 -0.72581792 a 1.5031304 Node 324.47004 +0.56217963 +0.61847046 e 0.3462933 Incl. 12.41882 +0.47579883 +0.30113559 P 1.84 H 17.9 G 0.15 U 9 MPE...
University at Buffalo students' satellite to launch with NASA mission A team of UB engineering students is shooting for the stars. The students built a satellite that will track space debris to help avoid possible collisions. The team's 'shoebox-sized' nanosatellite, Glint Analysing Data Obse...
Tel Aviv University uncovers evidence that a woman led in Canaan The legend is that the great rulers of Canaan, the ancient land of Israel, were all men. But a recent dig by Tel Aviv University archaeologists at Tel Beth-Shemesh uncovered possible evidence of a mysterious female ruler. Tel Aviv Uni...
Title: Case Studies of Habitable Trojan Planets in the System of HD 23079 Authors: J. Eberle, M. Cúntz, B. Quarles, Z. E. Musielak We investigate the possibility of habitable Trojan planets in the HD 23079 star-planet system. This system consists of a solar-type star and a Jupiter-type planet, whi...
Title: The Discovery of the Most Distant Known Type Ia Supernova at Redshift 1.914 Authors: David O. Jones, Steven A. Rodney, Adam G. Riess, Bahram Mobasher, Tomas Dahlen, Curtis McCully, Teddy F. Frederiksen, Stefano Casertano, Jens Hjorth, Charles R. Keeton, Anton Koekemoer, Louis-Gregory S...
Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon -- a result of Einstein's theory of general relativity -- in binary,...
SDSC's Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Centre (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processin...
