Geologists have discovered an iron ore deposit estimated to be at least 1 billion tons in northeast China's Liaoning Province after more than two years of exploration, local authorities said on Thursday. The newly-found deposit, between 1,280 meters and 1,500 meters underground, is at the Pings...
A research group led by graduate student Violette Impellizzeri from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has used the 100 m Effelsberg radio telescope to detect water at the greatest distance from Earth so far. The water vapour was discovered in the quasar MG J0414+0534 at redshift 2.64, wh...
Title: The 2MASS Tully-Fisher Survey : Mapping the Mass in the Universe Authors: T. Hong, L. Staveley-Smith, K. Masters, C. Springob, L. Macri, B. Koribalski, H. Jones, T. Jarrett The 2MASS Tully-Fisher Survey (2MTF) aims to measure Tully-Fisher (TF) distances for all bright inclined spirals in...
Wallops Island rocket launch scheduled for Friday A rocket launch for the Defence Department is scheduled for Friday night from NASA's range. The Terrier-Lynx suborbital rocket is scheduled to launch between 9 and 9:30 p.m., a NASA news release said. The backup launch date is Dec. 18, between 8 and...
Orbital elements:
2012 XK55 Earth MOID = 0.1618 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 342.46467 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.23477380 Peri. 183.09053 +0.19604229 -0.97616032
a 2.6023735 Node 255.61800 +0.90172862 +0.21678783
e 0.5596487 Incl. 5.51879 +0.38529587 -0.01068031
P 4.20 H 23....
A major magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred at 16:58:48 (UTC) on Friday, January 27, 2006, in the Banda Sea.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 341.5 km.
Location 5.448°S, 128.099°E
Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program. It was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. The mission was launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, and concluded on December 19. [url=h...
Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE (born 11 December 1960) is a British composer, best known for her film work. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score (for Emma in 1996). Read more...
TV astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, host of The Sky at Night, is admitted to hospital with heart problems.
He is being treated at a hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, after being admitted last night.
Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni will officiate at the first public viewing of "Rome Reborn 1.0," a 10-year project based at the University of Virginia and begun at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to use advanced technology to digitally rebuild ancient Rome. The event wil...
De motu corporum in gyrum (Latin)(translated as "On the motion of bodies in an orbit") is the (presumed) title of a manuscript by Isaac Newton sent to Edmond Halley in November 1684. Halley reported the communication from Newton to the Royal Society on 10 December 1684 (Julian cale...
Johannes Stöffler (also Stöfler, Stoffler, Stoeffler) (10 December 1452 - 16 February 1531) was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments and professor at the University of Tübingen. The lunar crater "Stöfler" (with one f) was name...
Title: High Angular Resolution Observations at 7-mm of the Core of the Quadrupolar HH 111/121 Outflow Authors: L. F. Rodriguez, J. M. Torrelles, G. Anglada, B. Reipurth We present sensitive, high angular resolution (0 lap.{''}05) VLA continuum observations made at 7 mm of the core of the HH 111/...
Title: A direct measurement of the heat release in the outer crust of the transiently accreting neutron star XTE J1709-267 Authors: N. Degenaar, R. Wijnands, J. M. Miller The heating and cooling of transiently accreting neutron stars provides a powerful probe of the structure and composition of t...
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