HS 2331+3905 = V455 ANDROMEDAE HS 2331+3905 was known to be a close binary with a orbital period of only 81.09 minutes (0.0563 day). The primary component is a white dwarf with an a temperature of 10,500 Kelvin, and the secondary star may be a brown dwarf. Material is probably accreting from the brown d...
A CZ-4B rocket body that was launched on the 10th May, 2012, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, for the YAOGAN 14 mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 27th February, 2013 @ 10:30 GMT ± 6 hours.CZ-4B RB
1 38259U 12021C 13057.34141360 .04167050 23735-5 4987...
Archaeologists in Perthshire will attempt to raise a Bronze Age boat from below the River Tay next month after undertaking excavation work yesterday.
The 3,000-year-old log boat was found by a man with a metal detector on the mudflats near Abernethy, six years ago.
The find was reported to Pe...
Wanaka UFO probably 'daylight meteor' A bright, ''sparkly'' silver object seen falling from the western sky on Sunday afternoon was probably a rarely seen daylight meteor. The Otago Daily Times has had reports of about a dozen people in at least six locations seeing the object between 2.45pm and 3p...
New Greek observatory sheds light on old star Continuing a tradition stretching back more than 25 centuries, astronomers have used the new 2.3-m 'Aristarchos' telescope, sited at Helmos Observatory (2340m high) in the Pelponnese Mountains in Greece, to determine the distance to and history of a...
Title: CP Violation and Mixing in Charm Meson Decays from BABAR Authors: Chunhui Chen Mixing and CP violation in charm meson decays provide a unique probe of possible physics beyond the standard model. In this paper, we give a brief review of the current measurements from the BABAR experiment. [url...
François Jean Dominique Arago (1786-1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician. Arago warmly supported Augustin-Jean Fresnel's optical theories, helping to confirm Fresnel's wave theory of light by observing what is now known as the spot of Arago. The two philo...
Mercury: at magnitude -1.1, starts the month in the constellation of Capricornus. Mercury is in conjunction with Mars (15.7' separated) at 17:57 UT, 8th February. Mercury is 4.39° from the Moon at 17:40 UT, 11th February. Mercury is in conjunction with Mars (4.2° separated) at 22:32 UT, 24th Feb...
Orbital elements:
2013 DA15 Earth MOID = 0.2828 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 77.32432 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.43099635 Peri. 254.97972 +0.52399574 -0.83201211
a 1.7357492 Node 159.94852 +0.82780768 +0.54782413
e 0.3831179 Incl. 32.09368 -0.20040686 +0.08743322
P 2.29 H 20.4...
Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a study suggests. Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago. The strip of land, which sci...
Enon meteorite a promising oddball The late Ulysses Drummond, who for 60 years held on to the 1.65-pound stone the Smithsonian Institution stores as the Enon meteorite, was his fathers 16th child and his mothers 11th. Although this circumstance is easily explained by his parents previous marriag...
Orbital elements: 2009 AV Earth MOID = 0.0658 AU Epoch 2008 Dec. 20.0 TT = JDT 2454820.5 MPC M 112.37269 (2000.0) P Q n 1.21418338 Peri. 231.43104 +0.84436431 -0.37296466 a 0.8701882 Node 144.88803 +0.31526571 +0.92634180 e 0.1064669 Incl. 41.96916 -0.43319330 -0.05280377 P 0.81 H 18.1 G 0.15 Fro...