Typhoon Bopha is forecast to make landfall in Koror (7.3 N, 134.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 42 hours probability for TS is 65% in about 42 hours The Typhoon is currently located near 4.4°N, 143.0°E
Sea Launch Selected to Launch Eutelsat's W5A Spacecraft Eutelsat has assigned the launch of its EUTELSAT 70B (ex. W5A) communications satellite to Sea Launch to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2012. The launch will occur from Sea Launch's launch platform Odyssey at its equatorial launch site...
Title: Evidence for long-term Gamma-ray and X-ray variability from the unidentified TeV source HESS J0632+057 Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, D. Boltuch, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, A. Cesarini, A. Cesar...
Title: Detection of inner Solar System Trojan Asteroids by Gaia Authors: M. Todd, P. Tanga, D. M. Coward, M. G. Zadnik The Gaia satellite, planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013, is the next generation astrometry mission following Hipparcos. While mapping the whole sky, the G...
Title: CX Lyrae 2008 Observing Campaign Authors: Pierre de Ponthiere, Jean-Francois Le Borgne, Franz-Josef Hambsch The Blazhko effect in CX Lyr has been reported for the first time by Le Borgne et al. (2007). The authors have pointed out that the Blazhko period was not evaluated accurately due to d...
Title: Planets in the Early Universe Authors: Yu. A. Shchekinov (1), M. Safonova (2), J. Murthy (2) ((1) Southern Federal University, (2) Indian Institute of Astrophysics) Several planets have recently been discovered around old and metal-poor stars, implying that the planets are also old, for...
Title: A cluster pair : A3532 and A3530 Authors: K. Lakhchaura, K. P. Singh, D. J. Saikia, R. W. Hunstead We present a detailed study of the environments of a close pair of clusters of galaxies, A3532 and A3530. The Chandra X-ray image of A3532 reveals presence of substructures on scales of 20 arcsecon...
Orest Danilovich Khvolson or Chwolson (November 22 (N.S. December 4), 1852, Saint Petersburg - May 11, 1934, Leningrad) was a Russian physicist and honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1920). He is most noted for being one of the first to study the gravitational lens effect. Read more...
Roberta Bondar OC O.Ont FRCP(C) FRSC (born December 4, 1945) is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific, and medical communities. Read mor...
NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyses First Martian Soil Samples NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyse Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulphur and chlorine-containing substances, among other ingre...
Orbital elements:
2012 XA Earth MOID = 0.0379 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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P 1.60 H 25.0 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 WE33 Earth MOID = 0.0724 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 294.39548 (2000.0) P Q
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Orbital elements:
2012 XB Earth MOID = 0.0490 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 324.53870 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.31 H 25.8...
Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder), was an American spacecraft that landed a base station with roving probe on Mars in 1997. Launched on December 4, 1996 by NASA aboard a Delta II booster a month after the Mars Global Surveyor was launched, it landed on July 4, 1997 on Mars' Ares Vallis, in a region cal...
