Orbital elements:
2011 JX31
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 110.08221 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00328988 Peri. 17.65063 -0.91847364 -0.39367098
a 44.7729797 Node 139.10135 +0.35552747 -0.86377237
e 0.1090078 Incl. 3.31035 +0.17322354 -0.31451622
P 300 H 8.2 G 0.15 U 2 MPEC 2012 - X59...
Orbital elements:
2011 JY31
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 305.23492 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00339445 Peri. 106.08251 +0.92391190 +0.38094068
a 43.8486407 Node 231.53947 -0.36613295 +0.85324149
e 0.0473901 Incl. 2.60953 -0.11105614 +0.35617855
P 290 H 8.9 G 0.15 U 3 MPEC 2012 - X6...
Relay 1 was an early American experimental communications satellite funded by NASA and developed by RCA. Relay 1 was launched atop a Delta B rocket on December 13, 1962 from LC-17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Its payload included radiation experiments designed to map the earth's radiatio...
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 - 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He...
Orbital elements:
2012 XR111 Earth MOID = 0.0695 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 331.57155 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.43770819 Peri. 352.36079 +0.34177622 -0.92385733
a 1.7179596 Node 77.52989 +0.87129339 +0.24280400
e 0.3873090 Incl. 10.16196 +0.35218865 +0.29586119
P 2.25 H 24...
The Baiji was a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China. Nicknamed "Goddess of the Yangtze" in China, the dolphin was also called Chinese River Dolphin, Yangtze River Dolphin, Whitefin Dolphin and Yangtze Dolphin. It is not to be confused with the Chinese White Dolph...
Spoiler Sunspots 11629 and 11630, plus a new sunspot that has appeared over the Suns eastern limb, captured with a 100mm refractor Music composed on an Amiga 1200
Pauline Avibella 425m-year-old fossil 'a new species' Fossils discovered of 425m-year-old tiny shrimp-like creatures are of a species new to science, say experts. Found in Herefordshire, the invertebrates were preserved by volcanic ash when the UK had a subtropical climate. The fossils show t...
Super-chilled robot ready to slice and dice The K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) is to be fitted to the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. It will study light that's been travelling through space for more than 13 billion years. Its quest will be to identify the first ob...
The icecaps had been melting since about 13,000 BC, steadily raising sea levels worldwide and the middle-east was just emerging from a long climatic drought, 6200-5700 BC .
The most spectacular event of the 6th millennium BC was the catastrophic flooding of the (freshwater) Black Sea...
Title: The accretion flow to the intermittent accreting ms pulsar, HETE J1900.1-2455, as observed by XMM-Newton and RXTE Authors: A. Papitto (IEEC-CSIC), A. D'Aì, T. Di Salvo (Univ. Palermo), E. Egron (Univ. Cagliari), E. Bozzo (ISDC), L. Burderi (Univ. Cagliari), R. Iaria (Univ. Palermo), A. R...
Anniversary of the Pioneer 8 Launch in 1967. Pioneer 8 was the third in a series of solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis. The spacecr...
Valter Giuliani (born 12 December 1960) is an Italian astronomer. Giuliani has discovered numerous asteroids, working from the l'Osservatorio astronomico di Sormano. Source
Eugene Michael Chudnovsky (born 12 December 1948 in Leningrad) is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate School. Chudnovsky is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (AP...
On 12 December 1901, the first transatlantic wireless transmission was received at Signal Hill, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, by Guglielmo Marconi in an abandoned fever and Diphtheria hospital, which has since been destroyed by fire. The transmission, in Morse code, originated from his P...
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