(old news April 13, 2004)
SUPERFLUIDITY IN AN ULTRACOLD GAS OF FERMION ATOMS has been demonstrated in an experiment at MIT, where an array of vortices has been set in motion in a molecular Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) of paired lithium-6 atoms.
There have been previous hints of...
How the worlds saltiest pond gets its salt Jay Dickson and Jim Head have gathered time-lapse photography and other data about the sustained salinity of Antarcticas Don Juan Pond, the most saline natural body of water on earth. Their findings, published online in Scientific Reports, suggest that s...
Orbital elements:
2013 CY32 Earth MOID = 0.0004 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 37.83790 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.34016359 Peri. 235.40954 +0.94999464 -0.23046694
a 2.0324077 Node 136.80646 +0.26820180 +0.94778295
e 0.8685628 Incl. 17.92875 -0.15993116 +0.22043699
P 2.90 H 28.1...
Amazonas 3 arrives in French Guiana for Arianespace's year-opening Ariane 5 launch The HISPASAT Amazonas 3 satellite for Arianespaces first Ariane 5 mission of 2013 has arrived in French Guiana, marking the start of payload preparations for this year-opening dual-passenger flight from the Spa...
The Battle of Al Mansurah was fought from February 8 to February 11, 1250, between crusaders led by Louis IX, King of France, and Ayyubid forces led by Emir Fakhr-ad-Din Yussuf, Faris ad-Din Aktai and Baibars al-Bunduqdari. The Seventh Crusade's defeat in Egypt in 1250 marked a turnpoint for all th...
Sir Sandford Fleming, KCMG (January 7, 1827 - July 22, 1915) was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor. He proposed worldwide standard time zones, designed Canada's first postage stamp, left a huge body of surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Ca...
Vettius Valens (February 8, 120 - c. 175) was a 2nd-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy. Valens' major work is the Anthology, ten volumes in Greek written roughly within the period 150 to 175. The Anthology is the longest and most detailed treatis...
Long March 3A rockets have been launched from Launch Areas 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. Its maiden flight was on 8 February 1994. Read more
Death Valley (Furnace Creek) Star Party - February 8-9, 2013 LVAS returns to Death Valley again the weekend of 8 and 9 February 2013 for our Winter Excursion to Furnace Creek. Join us as we return to the Furnace Creek Airport for two nights of dark skies and camaraderie. Our weekends at Furnace Creek ha...
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann (June 29 (17 old style) by himself, June 16 (4 old style) by J. O'Conor in 1888, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - September 16, 1925, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician. Read more
Payload elements come together in Starsem's wrap-up Soyuz mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome for Globalstar The Soyuz launch campaign for Globalstar's final batch of second-generation satellites has entered a new phase at Baikonur Cosmodrome, with the "stack" of six spacecraft now...
NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like Flashes Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light. Every 25.34 days, the object, designated LRLL 54361, unleashes a burst of light. Althoug...
Title: SMM J04135+10277: A Candidate Early-Stage "Wet-Dry" Merger of Two Massive Galaxies at z=2.8 Authors: Dominik A. Riechers (Cornell) We report interferometric imaging of CO(J=3-2) emission toward the z=2.846 submillimetre-selected galaxy SMM J04135+10277, using the Comb...
Orbital elements:
2013 CY10 Earth MOID = 0.2075 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 32.15509 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29473073 Peri. 146.75668 -0.22183750 -0.92572647
a 2.2362435 Node 313.86910 +0.77607876 +0.02255072
e 0.4877225 Incl. 25.14234 +0.59033032 -0.37752082
P 3.34 H 23.9...
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