Orbital elements:
2008 NB Earth MOID = 0.2882 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 20.78926 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25583498 Peri. 75.94843 +0.94022968 +0.00029576
a 2.4575146 Node 283.17913 -0.16174676 +0.88038949
e 0.5550190 Incl. 20.47218 +0.29967671 +0.47425127
P 3.85 H 19.3 G 0...
Amateur astronomer leads park's star gazing On the night of Oct. 20, around 40 patrons turned out at the park to witness the Orionid Meteor Shower. Russ Brantley, with the help of local "amateur astronomer" Kay Singer, selected a different night during the months of October, November an...
Leonardo fossil sketch may depict early nests A page of Leonardo da Vinci's Paris Manuscript I is covered in sketches of marine fossils; among them is a honeycomb-like array of hexagons that palaeontologists think might constitute the first recorded observation of an enigmatic trace fossil call...
Orbital elements:
2012 VB26 Earth MOID = 0.0204 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 324.29717 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.39773566 Peri. 257.90249 -0.42577565 -0.90380393
a 1.8312165 Node 217.39192 +0.85529890 -0.38648653
e 0.5590339 Incl. 4.06548 +0.29526071 -0.18375694
P 2.48 H 25....
Orbital elements:
2011 HO5 Earth MOID = 0.0013 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 184.71972 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.91046558 Peri. 289.50087 +0.91399488 +0.37825732
a 1.0542907 Node 48.57265 -0.25815050 +0.82120714
e 0.1368347 Incl. 11.28658 -0.31300427 +0.42724727
P 1.08 H 23.6 G 0...
August Ferdinand Möbius (November 17, 1790 - September 26, 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. He is best known for his discovery of the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Read...
Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Jen Pál; November 17, 1902 - January 1, 1995) FRS was a Hungarian American physicist and mathematician. Read more
The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Dondrub, 6 July 1935) is the 14th and current Dalai Lama. Read more
On June 3, 1991, Mount Unzen volcano erupted violently, possibly as a result of depressurisation of the magma column after a landslide in the crater. A pyroclastic flow reached 4.5 kilometres from the crater and claimed the lives of 43 scientists and journalists, including volcanologists Katia a...
Astronomers from Durham University use prototype instrument to observe the total eclipse of the sun Astronomers from Durham University used a prototype of a new instrument being developed in collaboration with a team from Yunnan Astronomical Observatory in China, to observe the outer layers of...
Australia declares world's largest marine reserve Australia has created the world's largest network of marine reserves, protecting oceans around its coast. Over 2.3 million sq km (0.9 million sq miles) of sea, made up of five zones, have been formally protected by law from over-fishing and oil ex...
The Dwingeloo Radio Observatory (near Dwingeloo, m. Westerveld, in the northeastern Netherlands), is a single dish radio telescope with a diameter of 25 m. Construction started in 1954, the telescope was completed in 1956. At that time it was the largest radio telescope in the world. As of 2000 it i...
Title: The massive eclipsing system ALS 1135 and variable stars in the field of the distant OB association Bochum 7 Authors: G. Michalska, E. Niemczura, A. Pigulski, M. Steslicki, A. Williams Using photometric and spectroscopic observations of the double-lined early-type eclipsing binary sys...
Title: The Blazhko modulation of TV Boo in 2010 Authors: G. Hajdu, J. Jurcsik, Á. Sódor, B. Szeidl, P. Smitola, B. Belucz, K. Posztobányi, K. Vida, E. Kun We present the analysis of the multicolour CCD observations in the 2010 season of the Blazhko RRc star TV Boo. TV Boo shows a complex Blazhko modulat...
