Title: The UMIST database for astrochemistry 2012 Authors: D. McElroy, C. Walsh, A.J. Markwick, M.A.Cordiner, K. Smith, T.J. Millar We present the fifth release of the UMIST Database for Astrochemistry (UDfA). The new reaction network contains 6173 gas-phase reactions, involving 467 species...
Title: A new flaring high energy gamma-ray source Authors: E. Bernieri, R. Campana, E. Massaro, A. Paggi, A. Tramacere We report the detection of a new gamma-ray source in the Fermi-LAT sky using a source detection tool based on the Minimal Spanning Tree algorithm. The source, not reported in previ...
Orbital elements:
2012 TJ146 Earth MOID = 0.0560 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 340.05261 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21899568 Peri. 50.04787 -0.09621820 -0.99307062
a 2.7259152 Node 45.61446 +0.88201749 -0.11648163
e 0.6365350 Incl. 5.41772 +0.46128864 +0.01558107
P 4.50 H 20.4...
Orbital elements: 2011 AC3 Earth MOID = 0.0465 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 320.78879 (2000.0) P Q n 1.01061256 Peri. 307.98036 -0.54286946 +0.74830172 a 0.9834363 Node 284.81806 -0.59215644 -0.66296225 e 0.4953848 Incl. 23.22520 -0.59551952 -0.02292584 P 0.98 H 22.7 G 0.15 U 9 M...
The 1970 Tonghai earthquake occurred on 4 January 1970 in Tonghai, China. The rupture originated on the local Yunnan Provinces Red River fault, which had not experienced an earthquake above magnitude 7 since 1700. Read more
For nearly 50 years, Bob Morgan and his family have kept a box full of charred debris that they swear fell out of the early morning sky on Dec. 8, 1957. Although no one has ever confirmed what the objects were, Mr. Morgan has long believed that he has a piece — or 13 pieces to be exact — of one of the most famous...
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour, and took the first American module, the Unity node to the station. Read more [video=http://www.youtube.com/v/Or...
The Carnegie Institution was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902. Its first president was Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of the Johns Hopkins University. One of the first grant recipients was George Hale in 1904. Read more
The North American ice storm of 1998 (also known as Great Ice Storm of 1998 and Great Ice Storm '98) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms which combined to strike a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec to Nova Scotia in Canada, and borderin...
The Heard Island and McDonald Islands (abbreviated as HIMI) are an Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. Neither island cluster had recorded visitors until the mid-1850s. Peter Kemp, a British s...
The British Antarctic Expedition 190709, otherwise known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole. This was not attained, but...
Brian David Josephson, FRS (born 4 January 1940; Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh physicist. He became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 for the prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect. Read more
Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 20 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the mos...
The Airy Transit Circle was designed by George Biddell Airy, and came into use 160 years ago. The first observation was taken on 4 January 1851, three days later than George Airy had intended due to the English weather. The circle remained in continual use until 1938, and the last ever observation was...
Title: FUV Detection of the Suspected Subdwarf Companion to the Be Star 59 Cygni Authors: Geraldine J. Peters, Tiffany D. Pewett, Douglas R. Gies, Yamina N. Touhami, Erika D. Grundstrom We report on the detection of a hot subdwarf component in the Be binary system, 59 Cygni. The spectral signature i...
