Raymonde de Laroche (22 August 1882 -18 July 1919), born Elise Raymonde Deroche, was a French aviatrix and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence. Read more
Title: A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251 Authors: N. Kains, R. Street, J.-Y. Choi, C. Han, A. Udalski, L. A. Almeida, F. Jablonski, P. Tristram, U. G. Jorgensen, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, R. Poleski, S. Kozlowski, P. Pietr...
Buried Mars River Channel Reveals Evidence of Relatively Recent Megaflooding Evidence of a megaflood on Mars - a surprisingly recent one that cut a 966-kilometer river channel into the planet - has been detected by radar from an orbiting satellite. Scientists have known for some time about the exi...
Orbital elements:
2011 HE103
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 162.34803 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00342036 Peri. 213.20899 -0.39852395 -0.90960615
a 43.6269568 Node 260.51729 +0.86528863 -0.33043367
e 0.0862399 Incl. 6.83905 +0.30406289 -0.25185359
P 288 H 9.5 G 0.15 U 4 MPEC 2013 - E2...
Title: Gamma-rays from binary system with energetic pulsar and Be star with aspherical wind: PSR B1259-63/SS2883 Authors: Agnieszka Sierpowska-Bartosik, Wlodek Bednarek At least one massive binary system containing an energetic pulsar, PSR B1259-63/SS2883, has been recently detected in t...
Title: Origin of the heavy elements in HD 140283. Measurement of europium abundance Authors: C. Siqueira Mello (1 and 2), B. Barbuy (1), M. Spite (2), F. Spite (2) ((1) IAG, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, (2) GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France) HD 140283 is a nearby (V=7.7) subgiant met...
A single mass weighing 1724.8 grams, and displaying regmaglypts and some remnant fusion crust, was found ~1950 by a farmer while plowing. Several months later, the finder took the specimen to Texas Tech University where it was classified by a mineralogist Mr. Dennis as a "stony iron sideroli...
Orbital elements:
2013 ET11 Earth MOID = 0.0068 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 1.19300 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.20362961 Peri. 14.31779 -0.83776076 +0.54598497
a 2.8613793 Node 198.78011 -0.50326454 -0.77744146
e 0.6719237 Incl. 1.34755 -0.21185306 -0.31222617
P 4.84 H 25.4 G 0....
NASA is rescheduling a rocket launch at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia due to weather concerns. The launch of the Terrier-Lynx suborbital rocket has been rescheduled for Monday between 1:30 a.m. and 2:15 a.m. It was originally set for early Friday morning. [url=http://www.wset.com/s...
ISRO plans a new high-resolution earth satellite The Indian Space Research Organisation is to build a remote sensing satellite, Cartosat-3, capable of taking images of the earth with a resolution of 0.25 metres. Currently, GeoEye-1 produces the highest resolution earth images taken by a commer...
Title: WASP-19b: the shortest period transiting exoplanet yet discovered Authors: Leslie Hebb, A.Collier-Cameron, A.H.M.J. Triaud, T.A. Lister, B. Smalley, P.F.L. Maxted, C. Hellier, D.R. Anderson, D. Pollacco, M. Gillon, D. Queloz, R.G. West, S. Bentley, B. Enoch, C.A. Haswell, K. Horne, M...
Expeditions 34/35 Crew Meets Media Spoiler The next residents of the International Space Station speak about their upcoming stay on the orbiting laboratory with members of the media at Star City, Russia. NASA's Tom Marshbu...
British engineers are planning to put a mobile phone in space. The team at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford want to see if the sophisticated capabilities in today's phones will function in the most challenging environment known. The phone will run on Google's Android opera...
Title: Ground-based observations of the beta Cephei CoRoT main target HD 180642: abundance analysis and mode identification Authors: M. Briquet, K. Uytterhoeven, T. Morel, C. Aerts, P. De Cat, P. Mathias, K. Lefever, A. Miglio, E. Poretti, S. Martin-Ruiz, M. Paparo, M. Rainer, F. Carrier, J. Gut...
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