The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's outskirts, where a billion-year plunge to the center begins. "These Suzaku obser...
The Palaeozoic Era (from the Greek palaio, "old" and zoion, "animals", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic eon. The Palaeozoic spanned from roughly 542 mya to roughly 251 mya (ICS, 2004), and is subdivided into six ge...
Runaway Star Ploughs Through Space A massive star flung away from its former companion is ploughing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The star, named Zeta Ophiuchi, is huge, with a...
King Ramesses III's throat was slit, analysis reveals Conspirators murdered Egyptian King Ramesses III by slitting his throat, experts now believe, based on a new forensic analysis. The first CT scans to examine the king's mummy reveal a cut to the neck deep enough to be fatal. [url=http://www.bb...
Title: Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence for an unusual tsunami or storm a few centuries ago at Anegada, British Virgin Islands Authors: Atwáter, Brian F.; ten Brink, Uri S.; Buckley, Mark ; Halley, Robert S.; Jaffe, Bruce E.; López-Venegas, Alberto M.; Reinhardt, Eduard G.; Tuttle, Mariti...
XXVIII IAU General Assembly Start date/time: August 20, 2012 End date/time: August 31, 2012 Place: Beijing, China Nanjing IAU Symposium 288: Astrophysics from Antarctica, Beijing, China
Title: The Location of the Snow Line in Protostellar Disks Authors: Morris Podolak The snow line in a gas disk is defined as the distance from the star beyond which the water ice is stable against evaporation. Since oxygen is the most abundant element after hydrogen and helium, the presence of ice gra...
Title: Gas and Dust Absorption in the DoAr 24E System Authors: Andrew J. Kruger, Matthew J. Richter, Andreas Seifahrt, John S. Carr, Joan R. Najita, Margaret M. Moerchen, Greg W. Doppmann We present findings for DoAr 24E, a binary system that includes a classical infrared companion. We observed th...
Title: HATNet Field G205: Follow-Up Observations of 28 Transiting-Planet candidates and Confirmation of the Planet HAT-P-8b Authors: David W. Latham (1), Gáspár A. Bakos (1,2), Guillermo Torres (1), Robert P. Stefanik (1), Robert W. Noyes (1), Géza Kovács (3), András Pál (1,4), Geoffrey W. Mar...
Title: WR 120bb and WR 120bc: a pair of WN9h stars with possibly interacting circumstellar shells Authors: Sonja Burgemeister, Vasilii V. Gvaramadze, Guy S. Stringfellow, Alexei Y. Kniazev, Helge Todt, Wolf-Rainer Hamann Two optically obscured Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars have been recently discov...
Orbital elements:
2012 XM145 Earth MOID = 0.0545 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 111.30171 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.20228675 Peri. 345.24042 -0.55305604 +0.72364837
a 0.8759191 Node 249.48529 -0.71274512 -0.66756204
e 0.1975154 Incl. 26.15664 -0.43142023 +0.17519691
P 0.82 H 2...
The Battle of Verdun was one of the major battles during the First World War on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. Read more[spoiler][video=htt...
The Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. Cliff Palace was first discovered on the 18th December, 1888, by Richard Wetherhill and Charlie Mason while ou...
