Title: Observation of Spin Flips with a Single Trapped Proton Authors: S. Ulmer (1,2 and 3), C.C. Rodegheri (1 and 2), K. Blaum (1 and 3), H. Kracke (2 and 4), A. Mooser (2 and 4), W. Quint (3 and 5), J. Walz (2 and 4) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Germany, (2) Institut fuer Physik, Johannes G...
The 1100 - 2500 metre wide asteroid 1997 AP10 will make a close pass (45.9 lunar distances, 0.1178 AU), travelling at 19.68 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th March, 2013 @ 04:54 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distan...
The Fabre Hydravion was a French experimental floatplane designed by Henri Fabre, notable as the first seaplane in history to take off from water under its own power. Read more
Without textbooks, blueprints, or even a template to follow, Penn State students are working side-by-side with faculty in a rare opportunity to build a robotic spacecraft - the Lunar Lion - that will land on the moon and return high-resolution images, video footage and scientific data. [url=htt...
Title: From a sounding rocket per year to an observatory per lifetime Authors: Martin C. Weisskopf I summarise the excitement of my role primarily in the early years of X-ray Astronomy. As a "second-generation" X-ray astronomer, I was privileged to participate in the enormous advance...
Did a meteor hit Kewanee in 1899? Meteoric stone falls on Prospect Street - Visitor from the heavens "Kewanee had an aerial visitor Friday night (That would have been July 21, 1899, if you want the official date), the only announcement of whose coming was a brilliant flash, dazzling to the eyes o...
U.S. World Record Mars Meteorite Discovery Glyn Howard, science teacher/meteoritics scientist, discovered, mapped, collected, and classified a new world record Mars meteorite find with more collected TKW than the Apollo Lunar Rocks. This discovery shatters all Mars achondrite records. Thi...
Title: mu Eridani from MOST and from the ground: an orbit, the SPB component's fundamental parameters, and the SPB frequencies Authors: M. Jerzykiewicz, H. Lehmann, E. Niemczura, J. Molenda-akowicz, W. Dymitrov, M. Fagas, D.B. Guenther, M. Hartmann, M. Hrudková, K. Kamiski, A.F.J. Moffat, R. K...
Title: The identification of MAXI J1659-152 as a black hole candidate Authors: M. Kalamkar, J. Homan, D. Altamirano, M. van der Klis, P. Casella, M. Linares We report on the analysis of all 65 pointed Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the recently discovered soft X-ray transient MAXI J16...
Title: Vertical settling and radial segregation of large dust grains in the circumstellar disk of the Butterfly Star Authors: Christian Gräfe, Sebastian Wolf, Stephane Guilloteau, Anne Dutrey, Karl Stapelfeldt, Klaus Pontoppidan, Jürgen Sauter Context: Circumstellar disks are considered...
The Hartebeesthoek space launch ground station is located along the Magaliesberg mountain range, approximately 70 km west of Pretoria, South Africa, and provides world-class telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) services.
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Title: Debris Disks in NGC 2547 Authors: N. Gorlova (Univ. Florida), Z. Balog, G. H. Rieke, J. Muzerolle, K. Y. L. Su (Univ. Arizona), V. D. Ivanov (ESO), E. T. Young (Univ. Arizona) We have surveyed the 30 Myr-old cluster NGC 2547 for planetary debris disks using Spitzer. At 4.5-8 um we are sensitive t...
