A Hittite-era dam located in the central Anatolian province of Çorum and believed to be one of the oldest in the world to have survived to date has been restored and is once again serving as a source of irrigation for local residents.
The dam, located at the [url=http://www.bilgin.com/hittite/...
Title: The rate of WD-WD head-on collisions may be as high as the SNe Ia rate Authors: Boaz Katz (IAS), Subo Dong (IAS) We show that a White Dwarf-White Dwarf (WD-WD) binary with semi-major axis a=1-300 AU, which is orbited by a stellar mass outer perturber with a moderate pericenter r_{p, out} ~ 3-10 x...
Launch of an ILS Proton-M Rocket with EchoStar 16 An ILS Proton-M rocket launched successfully from Baikonur with the EchoStar 16 satellite onboard. EchoStar 16 has 32 Ku-Band transponders which will provide additional services for the...
Christopher Reuel Tolkien (born 21 November 1924) is the third and youngest son of the author J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. He drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings, which he signed C. J. R. T. The...
Orbital elements:
2012 VL94 Earth MOID = 0.1097 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 347.86429 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.40967981 Peri. 28.64748 +0.61215252 -0.78644867
a 1.7954487 Node 23.89984 +0.68124703 +0.47170638
e 0.3980926 Incl. 11.71581 +0.40146204 +0.39873750
P 2.41 H 20.1...
Allan Rex Sandage (born June 18, 1926 in Iowa City, Iowa, died November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer. He is Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He is best known for determining the first reasonably accurate value for the Hubble constant and the ag...
Listen online to 10 top physicists (two Nobel Prize winners among them) describe Einstein's equation.
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Voltaire English letters discovered by Oxford academic An Oxford academic has uncovered letters by Voltaire which reveal how much this icon of French writing profited financially and intellectually from a stay in England. They include a signed acceptance from the 18th Century writer for a £200 g...
Predator 2 is a 1990 science fiction action film starring Danny Glover, Gary Busey, María Conchita Alonso, Rubén Blades, and Bill Paxton. Written by Jim and John Thomas and directed by Stephen Hopkins, the film is a sequel to 1987's Predator, with Kevin Peter Hall again playing the role of the Predat...
NASA Spacecraft Observe Nov. 20 Solar Eruption On Nov. 20, 2012, at 12:09 UT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and can reach Earth one to three days later. When Earth-directed, C...
These planetary eyepieces have a revised, modified Plossl build, 5 lenses in 3 groups (the 9 mm eyepiece has 6 lenses in 4 groups), of course, all multi-coated lens surfaces (fully multi coating). Distortion stays low even with bright (around f/5) telescopes. - Uniformly 20-mm exit pupil - Unifor...
China and DR Congo reach communications satellite deal China is to launch a communications satellite for the Democratic Republic of Congo within the next three years, Chinese state-owned media reports. DR Congo will be the second African country after Nigeria to have such technology. [url=http...
SkyWatcher Planetary UWA eyepiece 1.25" 8mm 58 Degree TMB Planetary II eyepiece TMB Planetary II eyepieces are some of the most respected eyepieces available. They provide exceptionally high power along with very comfortable eye relief making them one of the best eyepieces around. 6 elem...
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