Rosetta Bids Earth Adieu Nov 20, 2009
It glided by at 7:46 Universal Time, passing over Indonesia about 1,540 miles (2,480 km) up. It's now logged just about two-thirds of the 4. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
NASA sees high thunderstorms in newly formed Tropical Cyclone 4A near India Nov 11, 2009
It is expected to make landfall east of the India / Pakistan border late Wednesday Universal Time (mid-day Eastern Time). . (EurekAlert!)
NASA's GOES Project offers real-time hurricane alley movies Nov 10, 2009
The date/time is odometer-style: YYMMDDhhmm, an abbreviation for YEAR-MONTH-DAY-hour-minute, and is in Universal Time. The movies are 1280x720p MPEG4 (H.264) in an Apple Quicktime file, and are about 20 Megabytes each. (EurekAlert!)
Will the Leonids Roar Again? Nov 7, 2009
J;r;mie Vaubaillon (Caltech) initially predicted a maximum of nearly 500 Leonids per hour at 21:43 Universal Time. He has since scaled back his expectations and a maximum closer to 200 per hour, with the peak perhaps delayed by 30 minutes to 1 hour. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Cosmic Blast Rattles Indonesia Oct 28, 2009
Back on October 8th, something big lit up the late-morning sky (at about 3:00 Universal Time) over the island nation of Indonesia. shown on Indonesian television shows the lingering cloud of smoke left behind by a powerful bolide on October 8, 2009. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
At the centre of time Oct 21, 2009
" And while such political and practical considerations have caused time zones to change in relation to Greenwich over the years, scientific and technological advances have also challenged Greenwich's role as the centre of time and space. Leap secondsSince the 1960s, atomic clocks rather than astronomy have been keeping the world's time and have forced GMT to adapt. The combination of atomic clocks' super-accurate measurement and the fact that the rotation of the Earth is irregular and slowing... (BBC News -- UK)
Thanksgiving Harvest Books For Chil... Oct 21, 2009
It is a universal time of festivals, contemplation and celebration. Children can learn to love holidays with simple traditions like reading together. (Suite101.com)
Outer Space Source Of Earth's Mineral Riches? Oct 19, 2009
9, 2007) If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than. (Science Daily)
How to watch NASAs mighty moon crash Oct 7, 2009
The impact is scheduled to occur this Friday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 a.m. ET. That's 4:30 a.m. PT, or 11:30 UT. To convert Universal Time to your local time. Impact will occur less than 10 hours after the spent Centaur rocket motor is released and the LCROSS "shepherding spacecraft" maneuvers into position to trail the Centaur en route to the lunar surface. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Messenger's Third "Taste" of Mercury Oct 3, 2009
Today's flyby came at 21:55 Universal Time (5:55 p.m. EDT), with the spacecraft skimming just 141 miles (228 km) above the planet's night side. The hello-goodbye encounter provided a final gravitational boost in what has already been a long mission. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Coalition looking for new Nielsen Sep 11, 2009
By HOLLY SANDERS WARE. Last Updated: 1:17 AM, September 11, 2009. (New York Post -- Business)
McNaught Bags His 50th Comet Sep 9, 2009
The discovery, now known formally as P/2009 Q5, came early on the morning of September 1st in Australia (late on August 31st Universal Time). It appeared as a fuzzy 17th-magnitude blip in a stack of five 30-second exposures taken in northern Cetus after the nearly full Moon had set. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Jupiter Without Moons Aug 30, 2009
From 4:43 to 6:29 Universal Time on the 3rd (which is 12:43 to 2:29 a.m. EDT on the 3rd, or 9:43 to 11:29 p.m PDT on the 2nd), a casual look at Jupiter through a telescope will show no moons at all. It's quite common for one of the four Galilean moons be hidden, and it's not rare to see only two moons. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
"Lights, Camera, Cue the Moons!" Aug 22, 2009
On August 16th, from 16:38 to 17:39 Universal Time, Go carefully recorded the passage of little Io past big-brother Ganymede and a transit of Io's shadow across the larger moon's disk ... Io and its shadow overtake larger Ganymede in this 14-image sequence taken every few minutes from 16:38 to 17:39 Universal Time on August 16, 2009. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
2012 Prophecy Aug 18, 2009
GLEASON: It's 11 11 p.m. universal time, December 21, 2012. Column Archive. (Fox News)
TV-Web Ratings Group Wants To 'Light A Fire' Under Nielsen Aug 15, 2009
Report: Media Consortium Expected to Award Contracts For Cross-Platform Viewing. By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 8/14/2009 3:03:09 PM EDT. (Multichannel News)
Perseid Meteors by Moonlight Aug 4, 2009
S&T Illustration This year's Perseid peak is predicted to come around 18h Universal Time (2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time) on August 12th. That's good timing for the Far East, but for North America it splits the difference between the nights of August 11-12 and 12-13. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Jupiter Blots Out a Star Aug 2, 2009
The event occurs roughly from 22:53 Universal Time on August 3rd to 1:00 UT August 4th, varying slightly depending on your location. It happens at prime time for stargazers in Europe and Africa, and is also readily visible in the Middle East and Brazil. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
The Great Eclipse of 2009 Jul 10, 2009
Blue lines indicate mideclipse in Universal Time ... The umbra (dark central portion) of the lunar shadow first touches Earth at sunrise at 00:53 Universal Time in the Gulf of Khambhat off western India ... Red labels indicate the duration of totality, the Sun's altitude in the sky, and the Universal Time of mideclipse. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Eclipses in 2009 Jul 7, 2009
Blue lines indicate mideclipse in Universal Time. Click on the image for a larger version. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
APOCALYPSE SOON?Some say Maya calendar predicts doom in 2012 Jul 6, 2009
This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," Joseph writes. But scholars doubt the ancient Maya extrapolated great meaning from anticipating the alignment if they were even aware of what the configuration would be. (USA Today -- Tech)
> read more Jun 27, 2009
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) equals Universal Time (also known as UT, UTC, or GMT) minus 4 hours. "Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." Henri Poincar; (1854 1912). (SkyAndTelescope.com)
U.S. Lunar Probes Go Loopy Jun 27, 2009
NASA The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter fired a braking rocket at 6:27 a.m. EDT (10:27 Universal Time) and slipped into a looping orbit that will carry it over the lunar poles ... For now, the impacts are scheduled for within a half hour of 11:30 Universal Time (7:30 a.m. EDT, 4:30 a.m. PDT). (SkyAndTelescope.com)
NASA Returns to the Moon Jun 23, 2009
Today an Atlas rocket boosted NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and its companion LCROSS impactor skyward at 9:32 Universal Time (5:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time). The launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, had been delayed briefly by neighboring thunderstorms, but project managers eventually gave the "Go!" for liftoff. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Microsoft Article: New Date Data Types with SQL Server 2008 Jun 18, 2009
A valid time zone range is from -14:00 to +14:00, this value is added or subtracted from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to obtain the local time. When converting non-time zone aware time values to DATETIMEOFFSET a time zone setting of +00:00 is used, for more information about time conversion see the Using date and time topic in Books Online. (IntranetJournal)
Kaguya To Hit the Moon Jun 17, 2009
JAXA On June 10th at 18:25 Universal Time, the Japanese lunar orbiter (formerly named Selene) will end its two years of science with a final impact experiment. The location of the impact is very near the southeast limb, close to 80. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Kaguya Mission Ends with a Flash Jun 16, 2009
The impact occurred within a couple seconds of 18:25:10 Universal Time, which meant the just-past-full Moon was visible in predawn darkness from Japan, Australia, and the far western Pacific. Unfortunately, it was already daylight for the mammoth telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Does Your Mac HaveThe Conficker Worm? Apr 29, 2009
Because meeting times are stored in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) which, basically, answers the musical question, "What time is it in Greenwich, England?". Along with UTC, Outlook stores the time zone setting and DST adjustment of the meeting organizer's computer. (Fox News)
A Daring Pairing of Moon and Venus Apr 16, 2009
Interpolate between the red time lines to get the Universal Time of the event ... Use these maps to estimate the Universal Times of Venus's disappearance and reappearance during its occultation by the Moon on April 22, 2009. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
New Circumpolar Comet Yi-SWAN Apr 13, 2009
0) at 0 hours Universal Time on selected dates, along with its elongation angle from the Sun, predicted visual magnitude, and the constellation in which it lies. Date. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
IYA's 24-hour Scope-a-thon Apr 3, 2009
This unprecedented scope-a-thon kicks with a live feed from the Gemini North observatory in Hawaii on Friday morning, April 3rd, at 9:00 Universal Time (5:00 a.m. EDT). Then every 20 minutes the scene switches to a different facility. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Surprise Asteroid Makes Near-Miss of Earth Mar 3, 2009
The rock, estimated to be no more than 200 feet wide, zoomed past our planet at an altitude of 40,000 miles at 1:44 p.m. universal time or 8:44 EST.. Dubbed 2009 DD45, it was discovered only on Friday by Australian astronomers. (Fox News)
This Week's Sky at a Glance Mar 3, 2009
Eastern Standard Time (EST) equals Universal Time (known as UT, UTC, or GMT) minus 5 hours. To be sure to get the current Sky at a Glance, bookmark this URL. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Surprise Asteroid Just Buzzed Earth Mar 3, 2009
Discovered only days ago, asteroid 2009 DD45 zipped between our planet and the moon at 13:44 universal time (8:44 a.m. ET). The asteroid was moving at about 12 miles (20 kilometers) a second when it was closest to Earth. (National Geographic)
Space Rock 2009 DD45 Buzzes Earth Mar 3, 2009
45 is about to get its 15 minutes of fame (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Chinese Craft Whacks the Moon Mar 3, 2009
(1) The end came at 8:13 Universal Time, which is 4:13 p.m. in Beijing's time zone. That means the Moon was up, but sunset was still about two hours away not ideal conditions for lunar observing. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Earth-and-Sun Diamond Ring Feb 22, 2009
But a little diddling with Starry Night suggests it must have been near mid-eclipse (14:38 Universal Time on February 9th) with the craft positioned 60 miles (100 km) above a spot that's roughly 110. west, 42. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Unix Clock Reaches 1234567890th Second Feb 15, 2009
The "epoch time" clock as it is known UNIX Operating systems use the Unix Time, which measures time elapsed since midnight January 1, 1970 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). For economic reasons, UNIX time were stored in 32-bit format when the system was first devised in the 1960s. (ITProPortal)
UNIX clock reaches historic milestone Feb 14, 2009
The clock was started on the 1st of January 1970 and is used to measure 'Co-ordinated Universal Time' on UNIX systems. are planned in San Francisco, London and Dubai to mark the event, called by some the digital equivalent of the birth of Christ. (VNUNet.com)
