100th Anniversary of the Tunguska Event - Are We Any Better Prepared Today? Not a Quirk But a Quark... a Quark Star that is! Seeing Red - A Third Red Spot Appears on Jupiter Julian Starfest is Born Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen Water... (Or So That's What the White Stuff is) Arecibo Joins Global Network to Create 6,800-mile Diameter Radio Telescope Pennsylvania Park Receives International Recognition for Starry Skies Con-CERNs About the Large Hadron Collider Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing Did Modern Humans Evolve at Least Partialy from Neanderthals?
Hoodoo Sky Night Shinings Pickering's Triangle from Kitt Peak In the Center of the Trifid Nebula Shadow of a Martian Robot Fireball at Ayers Rock M81: Feeding a Black Hole M27: Not A Comet What is Hanny's Voorwerp? Ithaca Chasma: The Great Rift on Saturn's Tethys The International Space Station Expands Again Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 Vanishing Act Solstice Moonrise, Cape Sounion The Star Streams of NGC 5907 Pyramid Ice Crystal Halos Over Finland Eta Carinae and the Homunculus Nebula Inside the Coma Cluster of Galaxies Phoenix Digs for Clues on Mars M51 Hubble Remix
Video chat this weekend? Maybe. Famous astronomers, free podcasts Oot and aboot Teen Skepchick, open for business What was your first? Phoenix oven may short out GLAST is sending down data!
Thu Jul 3 02:20:01 2008 GMT New Moon Thu Jul 10 04:34:52 2008 GMT First quarter Fri Jul 18 08:00:29 2008 GMT Full moon Fri Jul 25 18:43:02 2008 GMT Last quarter Fri Aug 1 10:13:51 2008 GMT New Moon
The Tracking News on Thursday, 3 July 2008 2008 NU - MPEC 2008-N11 Daily Orbit Update - MPEC 2008-N10 Traffic Report for "Earth's Busy Neighborhood" Yesterday's Tracking News
Date : Miss Distance : Relative Velocity: Estimated Diameter : Object Name 2008-Jul-03 : 23.9 LD : 19.5 km/s : 340 m - 760 m : (2004 TG10) 2008-Jul-03 : 60.5 LD : 20.2 km/s : 250 m - 550 m : (2008 LV16) 2008-Jul-07 : 74.3 LD : 19.9 km/s : 280 m - 630 m : (2007 MK13) 2008-Jul-10 : 30.8 LD : 25.6 km/s : 20 m - 45 m : (2003 RU11) 2008-Jul-13 : 16.5 LD : 17.5 km/s : 840 m - 1.9 km : 90403 (2003 YE45) 2008-Jul-14 : 5.9 LD : 18.2 km/s : 610 m - 1.4 km : (2008 BT18) 2008-Jul-15 : 61.7 LD : 17.5 km/s : 850 m - 1.9 km : 90367 (2003 LC5) 2008-Jul-15 : 21.2 LD : 21.8 km/s : 120 m - 260 m : (2008 MP1) 2008-Jul-16 : 51.8 LD : 21.2 km/s : 160 m - 350 m : (2007 MC4) 2008-Jul-21 : 14.6 LD : 19.5 km/s : 340 m - 760 m : (2005 RC34) 2008-Jul-21 : 67.7 LD : 22.8 km/s : 72 m - 160 m : (2002 JQ97) 2008-Jul-22 : 68.0 LD : 24.8 km/s : 30 m - 66 m : (2007 YF) 2008-Jul-24 : 49.5 LD : 21.9 km/s : 110 m - 250 m : 154019 (2002 CZ9) 2008-Jul-27 : 28.5 LD : 21.1 km/s : 160 m - 350 m : (2008 HB38) 2008-Jul-28 : 25.0 LD : 19.3 km/s : 360 m - 810 m : (2004 SB56) 2008-Jul-28 : 69.9 LD : 20.9 km/s : 180 m - 400 m : 162183 (1999 NB5) 2008-Jul-30 : 72.6 LD : 20.0 km/s : 260 m - 590 m : (2003 RM) 2008-Jul-31 : 53.8 LD : 26.8 km/s : 11 m - 26 m : (2008 DL4) 2008-Aug-01 : 67.4 LD : 22.6 km/s : 82 m - 180 m : 54509 YORP 2008-Aug-02 : 33.7 LD : 25.3 km/s : 23 m - 52 m : (2005 CN61) 2008-Aug-02 : 68.2 LD : 19.0 km/s : 420 m - 950 m : 65690 (1991 DG) 2008-Aug-03 : 61.5 LD : 17.3 km/s : 920 m - 2.1 km : 188452 (2004 HE62) 2008-Aug-06 : 60.8 LD : 22.9 km/s : 70 m - 160 m : (2005 CN)
Regulus! Astronomy Newsletter - July
New Discoveries at Mercury Planets Align for the 4th of July The Tunguska Impact--100 Years Later NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment Apollo Relic Reveals its Secrets
Slacker wins award Carnival of Space No. 60 Regulus - Just when you think you know a star Space Out Interview: Juan Collar and Detecting Dark Matter Interview: Susana Deustua of the IYA Not Ad Supported Chris Lintott Simostronomy: An astronomy blog is born AAS Updates at Astronomy Cast Interview: Rick Fienberg of Sky and Telescope 400 Years of the Telescope + beer The life astronomy improves is your own IYA New Media Overview Astro BBQ at Pamela’s Astro-drinking in St. Louis Carnival of Space No. 56 Podcast: Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory
Instrument concerns accelerate Mars sample analysis plans Proton launches Russian military satellite Phoenix finds Earth-like soil NASA upgrades Ares 5 Impact may explain differences in Martian hemispheres
2008 Jun 29 1421 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu (ALTEF3/1552)
Volcanoes on Mercury Solve 30-year Mystery Strange Asteroid Shapes Explained The Future of Space Robots Mars Lander's Next Bake Test Could Be Its Last Adopt a Scientist Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge Blog: The Road to Spaceport America 2 Men Charged in Killing of NASA Engineer, 3 Others Physics and Fitness Meld for Space Tourist, NFL Player Gamma-Ray Hunter Powers Up Scientists Eager for Hubble's Facelift Phoenix Scrapes Up Water Ice Samples NASA to Deploy Solar Sail This Summer Earth's Cries Recorded in Space NASA Astronaut Readapts to Life on Earth Opportunity Rover Eyes Cliff Face on Mars Huge Tunguska Explosion Remains Mysterious 100 Years Later Persons of Interest Named in Slayings of NASA Engineer, 3 Others
What's Happening: Stellar Lightweight Causes a Mysteriously Massive Explosion Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our Galaxy Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing Scientists Hold Séance for Supernova Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star What's Happening: Spitzer Finds Cosmic Neon's Sweet Spot What's Happening: New Software Brings the Universe to Your Computer What's Happening: The Second Stellar Baby Boom Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere What's Happening: Spitzer Spots Ancient Cosmic Urban Sprawl What's Happening: Cosmic Searchlights Reveal "Lost" Galaxies Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May Grow What's Happening: Spitzer's Eyes Perfect for Spotting Diamonds in the Sky Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky Planets Astronomers Eye Ultra-Young, Bright Galaxy in Early Universe Spitzer Catches Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust What's Happening: Cosmic Suburbia is a Better Breeding Ground for Stars NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers
