Title: Carbon monoxide in the environs of the star WR 16 Authors: N. U. Duronea, E.M. Arnal, L. Bronfman We analyse the carbon monoxide emission around the star WR 16 aiming to chieve a better understanding of the interaction between massive stars with their surroundings. We study the molecular gas...
Historic hill at risk of being removed from landscape An entire hill, famed for its archeological heritage and geological significance, is to be removed from the Scottish skyline to make way for a quarry under plans being considered by West Dunbartonshire Council. Sheep Hill, in the Kilpatrick Hi...
Title: KIC 10449976: discovery of an extreme-helium subdwarf in the Kepler field Authors: C.S. Jeffery, G. Ramsay, N. Naslim, R. Carrera, S. Greiss, T. Barclay, R. Karjalainen, A. Brooks, P. Hakala Optical spectroscopy of the blue star KIC 10449976 shows that it is an extremely helium-rich subdw...
'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (December 7, 903. Rey, Iran - May 25, 986. Shiraz) was a Persian astronomer also known as 'Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi, or 'Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Husayn, 'Abdul Rahman Sufi, 'Abdurrahman Sufi and known in the west as Azophi; the lunar crater Azophi and the minor planet 12621 Alsufi a...
Nicholas Michael Katz (born 7 December 1943) is an American mathematician, working in the fields of algebraic geometry, particularly on p-adic methods, monodromy and moduli problems, and number theory. He is currently a professor in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University in Princ...
ATS-1 was a communications satellite intended to test geostationary orbit techniques at 37,000 km above Earth, initially in orbit over Ecuador. it transmitted weather images and data to ground stations. It was the first satellite to use frequency division multiple access which accepted multip...
Orbital elements:
2012 XZ6 Earth MOID = 0.1069 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 349.38727 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.36568881 Peri. 139.12189 +0.68252819 -0.30383889
a 1.9366967 Node 251.50548 +0.33956599 +0.93719737
e 0.4776858 Incl. 44.49985 +0.64718638 -0.17129802
P 2.70 H 19....
Little Telescope Spies Gigantic Galaxy Clusters The rarest and largest of galaxy groupings, called galaxy clusters, can be the hardest to find. That's where NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) can help. The mission's all-sky infrared maps have revealed one distant galaxy cluste...
A Rockot launch vehicle is scheduled to launch the Kosmos 2482, 2485 and 2484 satellites from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 20:34 UT, 7th December, 2012. The satellites will provide communication services for the russian military.
The 360 - 800 metre wide asteroid 2001 WN1 will make a close pass (50.0 lunar distances, 0.1285 AU), travelling at 8.73 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November, 2012 @ 04:16 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Title: PICACS: a tool for self-consistent modelling of galaxy cluster scaling relations Authors: B. J. Maughan (HH WIlls Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol) In this paper, we introduce PICACS, a physically-motivated, internally consistent model of scaling relations between galaxy c...
Title: Highlights in astroparticle physics: muons, neutrinos, hadronic interactions, exotic particles, and dark matter --- Rapporteur Talk HE2 & HE3 Authors: Joerg R. Hoerandel Recent results presented at the International Cosmic Ray Conference in Beijing will be reviewed. Topics incl...
Charitum Montes: a cratered winter wonderland The high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express imaged the Charitum Montes region of the Red Planet on 18 June, near to Gale crater and the Argyre basin featured in our October and November image releases. The brighter features, giving the ima...
First Images from the VLT Survey Telescope The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope, with the huge 268-megapixel camera OmegaCAM at its...
