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Posts Tagged ‘astronomer’
C/2010 X1
Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is a long-period comet discovered by Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010 at International Scientific Optical Network’s robotic observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico, U.S.A. On 16 October 2011, the comet will pass within about 0.23 AU (34,000,000 km; 21,000,000 mi) of the Earth at a relative velocity of 85,000 [...]
Life And Leisure At Paranal Observatory
The Sun sets at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Technicians and engineers have worked hard all day to prepare the European flagship facility, the Very Large Telescope (VLT), for astronomers to use. At night, scientists address some of the most important mysteries in the Universe with this superb science machine, observing the heavens in exquisite detail. Paranal [...]
Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde William Tombaugh was an American astronomer. While best known for discovering dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, he was also probably the most eminent astronomer to have reported seeing UFOs and support extraterrestrial hypothesis. He has reported numerous sightings. In 1949, he described seeing six to eight rectangular lights in the sky near Las Cruces, [...]
Astronomers film UFO on the Moon
During routine observations of the cosmos, Italian astronomers have recently spotted and tracked on video an Unidentified Flying Object or UFO. I can’t seem to find much information on this video, but it seems pretty genuine. The links to the original sources including data from the observatory on the estimated size and speed of the [...]