Title: V371 Per - A Thick-Disk, Short-Period F/1O Cepheid Authors: Patrick Wils, Arne A. Henden, Stelios Kleidis, E.G. Schmidt, Doug L. Welch V371 Per was found to be a double-mode Cepheid with a fundamental mode period of 1.738 days, the shortest among Galactic beat Cepheids, and an unusually hig...
Three key ISRO centres get new chiefs The state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has appointed three new directors for its various operational centres at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu and spaceport Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. [url=http://www.fir...
Title: W. W. Morgan and the Discovery of the Spiral Arm Structure of our Galaxy Authors: William Sheehan William Wilson Morgan was one of the great astronomers of the twentieth century. He considered himself a morphologist, and was preoccupied throughout his career with matters of classificatio...
Charles Piazzi Smyth (3 January 1819 - 21 February 1900), was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well-known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Read more
The Open University (commonly Open University or its initialism OU, but officially "The" is part of its name) is a distance learning and research[5] university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom. The University is funded by a combination of student fees, contract income, a...
Tentative identification of the Mars Polar Lander crash site: Shortly after the loss of Mars Polar Lander, after a NASA software blunder, the Mars Global Surveyor MOC was employed to acquire dozens of 1.5 m/pixel images of the landing zone ellipses. It looked for any evidence of the lander and its fa...
Scientists from the universities of Kiel and Düsseldorf (both Germany) have developed a method to simulate gigantic magnetic fields that normally occur on neutron stars only. The physicists Professor Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) and Professor Michael Bonitz (Kie...
Freespire is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as t...
Orbital elements:
2012 YD7 Earth MOID = 0.0176 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 78.76524 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.19299424 Peri. 201.59528 +0.07853466 +0.99600337
a 0.8804617 Node 72.92909 -0.90801005 +0.08908050
e 0.2196224 Incl. 2.55049 -0.41152163 -0.00647646
P 0.83 H 24.3 G 0...
The 31 - 68 metre wide asteroid 2010 XW58 will make a close pass (58.3 lunar distances, 0.1498 AU), travelling at 11.20 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd January, 2013 @ 18:51 UT ±05:20. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Orbital elements:
2011 UF305
Epoch 2011 Oct. 26.0 TT = JDT 2455860.5 MPC
M 355.75691 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.01412949 Peri. 119.09024 -0.30293023 -0.37237551
a 16.9453964 Node 298.20859 +0.01107666 +0.91906526
e 0.8579296 Incl. 95.44845 +0.95294836 -0.12905629
P 69.8 H 11.2 G 0.15
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d h d h
3 1 Jupiter at opposition 14 11 Pluto 0.1S of Moon Occn
5 6 Mercury greatest elong W(21) 15 8 Mars 5.4S of Moon
5 11 Regulus 5.7N of Moon 18 2 Neptune 5.8S of Moon
6 15 LAST QUARTER 18 5 Mercury 5.4N of Antares
9 11 Spica 0.6N of Moon Occn 20 5 FIRST QUARTER
10 10 Saturn 3.8N of Moon 20 16 Uranu...
Lakeview Gusher Number One was an immense out-of-control pressurised oil well in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California. It created the largest accidental oil spill in history, lasting 18 months and releasing 9 million barrels (1.4x106 m³) of crude oil. The Lakeview Oil Company s...
Sergei Avdeyev (born 1 January 1956) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. He retired as a cosmonaut on 14 February 2003. Avdeyev at one point held the record for cumulative time spent in space with 747.59 days in earth orbit, accumulated through three tours of duty aboard the Mir Space Station. He ha...
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