Researchers using satellite technology are drawing up maps of the ancient city of Milan in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in a bid to better protect this important point along the Silk Road. Milan is home to many cultural relics, inclu...
Archaeologists believe they may have found the final battle site for the warrior queen Boudica - on the site of a McDonald's restaurant.
Having spent her life in fierce resistance to one empire - the Romans - her last stand is thought to ha...
The Great Wall of Qi is the oldest existing Great Wall in China. Construction of the wall started in 685 BCE (during the Spring and Autumn Period) by the state of Qi, to defend against an invasion by the Kingdom of Chu. Read more China i...
From Herodotus and Homer to the warriors of Ancient Greece the mystic utterances from the Oracle of Delphi were regarded as sacrosanct. But now the hugely influential pronouncements of the oracle are said by Greek and Italian arch...
In little over two months, famed Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass hopes to unearth the discovery of his lifetime: the tomb of one of history's greatest women, Cleopatra.
Hawass suspects Cleopatra is buried with her Roman lover Mark Antony at a temple 30km from Alexandra called Tabusiris Magna.
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The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway and the English king's brother Tostig Godwi...
Storms expose iron age skeleton Shetland's pre-Christmas storms have revealed remains of an iron age building and a human skeleton believed to be 2,000 years old. Archaeologists said a structure was briefly exposed at Channerwick before being buried again by a rockfall over the festive period. [...
Title: Will LSST detect extra-solar planetesimals entering the Solar system? Authors: Amaya Moro-Martin, Edwin L. Turner, Abraham Loeb Planetesimal formation is a common by-product of the star formation process. Taking the dynamical history of the Solar system as a guideline -- in which the pl...
Title: An outburst from a massive star 40 days before a supernova explosion Authors: E. O. Ofek, M. Sullivan, S. B. Cenko, M. M. Kasliwal, A. Gal-Yam, S. R. Kulkarni, I. Arcavi, L. Bildsten, J. S. Bloom, A. Horesh, D. A. Howell, A. V. Filippenko, R. Laher, D. Murray, E. Nakar, P. E. Nugent, J. M. Silverma...
Angelenos Report Seeing Object Light Up Sky Dozens of sky watchers told the American Meteor Society that they saw the fire ball. People in Ventura, Anaheim, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Paso Robles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara posted on the group's website. Read more
Orbital elements:
2008 YF3 Earth MOID = 0.2533 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 43.83382 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.51658373 Peri. 84.95369 -0.93644373 -0.03112974
a 1.5383042 Node 92.94408 -0.10201834 -0.92884499
e 0.3266955 Incl. 20.48094 +0.33565666 -0.36915839
P 1.91 H 21.1 G 0....
Hubble Sees a Glowing Jet From A Young Star This image shows an object known as HH 151, a bright jet of glowing material trailed by an intricate, orange-hued plume of gas and dust. It is located some 460 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull), near to the young, tumultuous star HL Tau...
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