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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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ESA to build its third deep space ground station in Argentina On 22 June, ESA informed Argentinean authorities that an area 30 km south of the town of Malargüe in Mendoza province, about 1000 km west of Buenos Aires, has been chosen as the best option to build a new 35-meter antenna in support of its prog...
Historic Caribbean Earthquake Was Felt in NYC More than 150 years ago, a fault ringing the Caribbean shook half the Atlantic, including New York City, with a mega-earthquake. The quake rivaled those that have struck Indonesia in recent years, geologists reported last week at the annual meeting of...
Title: Earth and Mars crater size frequency distribution and impact rates: Theoretical and observational analysis Authors: William Bruckman, Abraham Ruiz, Elio Ramos A framework for the theoretical and analytical understanding of the impact crater-size frequency distribution is develope...
Title: A new method to determine the grain size of planetary regolith Authors: Bastian Gundlach, Jürgen Blum Airless planetary bodies are covered by a dusty layer called regolith. The grain size of the regolith determines the temperature and the mechanical strength of the surface layers. Thus, k...
The 557 Constantinople earthquake took place on the night of 14 December. This great earthquake, described in the works of Agathias, John Malalas and Theophanes the Confessor, caused great damage to Constantinople, then capital of the Byzantine Empire, and a region frequently afflicted with ea...
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (born 14 December 1965) is an Italian physicist of the University of Rome La Sapienza who works on quantum gravity. He is the first proposer of Doubly special relativity that is the idea of introducing the Planck length in physics as an observer-independent quantity, obt...
Michel de Nostredame (14 or 21 December 1503 - 2 July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world event...
Steven Glenwood MacLean (born December 14, 1954) is a Canadian astronaut. He is the current President of the Canadian Space Agency, appointed on September 1, 2008 and scheduled to end August 31, 2013. Read more
Exchanges at the Frontier: Lisa Randall This event will be broadcast live from the Wellcome Collection in London from 1905-2100 on Thursday 13 December, and presented by the philosopher A.C.Grayling. If the Universe started with a Big Bang - what was there before? Why is so much money spent on sear...
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Nov. 29.0 TT = JDT 2456260.5 MPC
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