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Orbital elements: 2012 XE112 Earth MOID = 0.1131 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 322.82065 (2000.0) P Q n 0.31163909 Peri. 232.44801 -0.65735286 -0.74387703 a 2.1546072 Node 259.09961 +0.72432470 -0.57954817 e 0.5109191 Incl. 7.05216 +0.20794455 -0.33282260 P 3.16 H 20...

All these years the Indian space agency ISRO had launched satellites primarily for domestic use. Opportunities to carry third-party payloads are now being actively tapped. Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has a busy launch calendar ahead. A slew of launches have been...

Title: NLTT5306: The shortest Period Detached White Dwarf + Brown Dwarf Binary Authors: P. R. Steele, R. P. Saglia, M. R. Burleigh, T. R. Marsh, B. T. Gänsicke, K. Lawrie, M. Cappetta, J. Girven, R. Napiwotzki We have spectroscopically confirmed a brown dwarf mass companion to the hydrogen atmosph...

Nicholas Kollerstrom (born 13 December 1946) is an English writer and historian of science. He is a former honorary research fellow in Science and Technology Studies at University College, London (UCL), and a former lunar gardening correspondent for the BBC. Read more

Elizabeth Alexander (13 December 1908 - 1959) was a British born meteorologist and radio astronomer. She was once credited as the First Female Radio Astronomer due to her early work in the branch of astronomy that would later become known by that name. Read more

Philip Warren Anderson (born December 13, 1923) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localisation, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking, high-temperature superconductivity and to the philosophy of science through his writings o...

Hans-Joachim Marseille (13 December 1919 - 30 September 1942) was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II. He is noted for his aerial battles during the North African Campaign and his Bohemian lifestyle. One of the most successful fighter pilots, he was nicknamed the "Sta...

Kristian Olaf Birkeland (13 December 1867 - 15 June 1917) was a Norwegian scientist. He is best remembered as the person who first elucidated the nature of the Aurora borealis. In order to fund his research on the aurorae, he invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland-Eyde process of fix...

X-ray laser takes aim at cosmic mystery An international collaboration including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has refined a key process in understanding extreme plasmas such as those found in the sun, stars, at the rims of black holes and galaxy clusters. In short, th...

On December 13, the anniversary of the Temple of Tellus was celebrated along with a lectisternium (banquet) for Ceres, who embodied "growing power" and the productivity of the earth. Read more

Title: A prehistoric tsunami induced long-lasting ecosystem changes on a semi-arid tropical island - the case of Boka Bartol (Bonaire, Leeward Antilles) Authors: Max Engel, Helmut Brückner, Sascha Fürstenberg, Peter Frenzel, Anna Maria Konopczak, Anja Scheffers, Dieter Kelletat, Simon Mat...

NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object's light travelled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 15...

Title: The nature of the recent extreme outburst of the Herbig Be/FU Ori binary Z CMa Authors: T. Szeifert, S. Hubrig, M. Schöller, O. Schütz, B. Stelzer, Z. Mikulásek Z CMa is a binary system which consists of two young stars: A Herbig AeBe component "Z CMa NW" embedded in a dust cocoon and a...

Orbital elements: 2012 XT111 Earth MOID = 0.0109 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 351.03755 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32953678 Peri. 102.92598 +0.96755659 -0.25067698 a 2.0758699 Node 271.59819 +0.21784537 +0.89097223 e 0.6055036 Incl. 1.80860 +0.12797518 +0.37858888 P 2.99 H 25...

Orbital elements: 2012 DS85 Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 47.03240 (2000.0) P Q n 0.01193435 Peri. 303.75378 +0.26949842 -0.93653163 a 18.9642995 Node 128.97072 +0.95109070 +0.22234215 e 0.1346303 Incl. 16.76284 +0.15098701 +0.27105806 P 82.59 H 9.4 G 0.15 U 4 MPEC 2012 -...