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Orbital elements: 2013 CN35 Earth MOID = 0.0589 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 42.68697 (2000.0) P Q n 0.51108266 Peri. 175.12124 -0.48001816 -0.84697144 a 1.5493230 Node 303.38841 +0.79532663 -0.31023810 e 0.3269559 Incl. 15.88405 +0.37018660 -0.43173106 P 1.93 H 20.8...

Orbital elements: 2013 CM35 Earth MOID = 0.0470 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 83.24963 (2000.0) P Q n 0.54548589 Peri. 231.62525 +0.91844006 -0.39391953 a 1.4834755 Node 151.52073 +0.38237269 +0.86084058 e 0.5600464 Incl. 4.32855 +0.10128665 +0.32215045 P 1.81 H 23.3 G...

Hubble Catches a Side-on Spiral Streak. This thin, glittering streak of stars is the spiral galaxy ESO 121-6, which lies in the southern constellation of Pictor (The Painter's Easel). Viewed almost exactly side-on, the intricate structure of the swirling arms is hidden, but the full length of the...

James Roger Prior Angel (born February 7, 1941) is an American astronomer, and is Regents Professor and Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Read more

Orbital elements: 2013 CR35 Earth MOID = 0.0310 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 50.50726 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46985856 Peri. 138.74906 -0.06700674 -0.99348908 a 1.6386692 Node 314.86532 +0.87794003 -0.01483235 e 0.4118688 Incl. 7.46951 +0.47405843 -0.11295770 P 2.10 H 22.4 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 CQ35 Earth MOID = 0.0596 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 145.61546 (2000.0) P Q n 0.68409208 Peri. 38.13129 +0.94207198 -0.33146914 a 1.2756347 Node 341.03242 +0.25573089 +0.80874057 e 0.3148638 Incl. 9.07559 +0.21703018 +0.48586717 P 1.44 H 19.7 G...

Meteorite fragments at Battaramulla? Several fragments suspected to be from a meteorite have fallen into a home garden near parliament at Battaramulla this morning, an official said. Prof. Chandana Jayaratne of the Colombo University, who visited the site, told Daily Mirror online that these o...

A 12 million digit prime number, the largest such number ever discovered, has landed a voluntary math research group a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The number known as a Mersenne prime, is the 45th known Mersenne prime, written shorthand as 2 to the power of 43,112,...

Orbital elements: 2013 CW32 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0341 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 188.10353 (2000.0) P Q n 1.14768828 Peri. 228.78930 +0.94483907 -0.06258630 a 0.9034832 Node 132.03400 +0.09717393 +0.99094349 e 0.3749654 Incl. 25.64869 -0.31278804 +0.11880215 P 0.86...

Orbital elements: 2013 CX32 Earth MOID = 0.0420 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 29.80287 (2000.0) P Q n 0.34860113 Peri. 162.25072 -0.49253864 -0.86326443 a 1.9994790 Node 317.07635 +0.77753698 -0.37952580 e 0.4913895 Incl. 9.32626 +0.39095003 -0.33276822 P 2.83 H 24.5 G...

Title: PGC 60020: a Polar-Ring Galaxy Authors: O. A. Merkulova, G. M. Karataeva, V. A. Yakovleva, A. N. Burenkov We present an analysis of new observations of a peculiar galaxy PGC 60020, obtained with the 6-m BTA telescope of the SAO RAS with a multimode SCORPIO instrument. The observational data i...

Proclus Lycaeus (8 February 412 - 17 April 485 AD), called the Successor, was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Classical philosophers. He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism. Read more

Hiroki Kosai (born 8 February 1933) is a Japanese astronomer with the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory The asteroid 3370 Kohsai is named in his honour. Read more

Feb 8-11 '13 Staveley Stardate SI will be held at a "Christian" hostel and camp at Staveley, New Zealand, between Friday February 8th and Monday February 11th. There's nothing particularly religious about Stardate, although Phil Barker reports a religious experience when he views th...

NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-ray Imager Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Ear...