Orbital elements:
2012 VF82 Earth MOID = 0.2172 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 344.41060 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.65 H 20...
Title: Dúngal Letterato E Astronomo. Note di stilistica e di astronomia sulla Lettera a Carlo Magno circa le eclissi di sole dell'810 Authors: Paolo Zanna, Costantino Sigismondi Dúngal's letter to Charlemagne on the double solar eclipse in the year 810 is extremely interesting both for its form a...
NASA wants to send astronauts beyond the moon Top NASA officials have picked a leading candidate for the agency's next major mission: construction of a new outpost that would send astronauts farther from Earth than at any time in history. The so-called "gateway spacecraft" would hover...
Ancient environment found to drive marine biodiversity Much of our knowledge about past life has come from the fossil record - but how accurately does that reflect the true history and drivers of biodiversity on Earth? "It's a question that goes back a long way to the time of Darwin, who looked a...
The Clark telescope at the McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia will be undergoing a small but crucial renovation soon -- the polishing of the lens that has scanned the stars for more than 100 years.
Robert and Rose Capon donated $20,000 for the renovation of the 32½-foot...
A small eruption on Mount Ruapehu in central North Island, New Zealand last Wednesday night, 4th October, may have sent a water plume about 200 meters into the air, and created waves about six meters high in the volcanic lake.
"It would have been a geyser-type eruption. It would have domed up w...
Volcano Vaporises Cool Glowing Roach A volcano may have snuffed out the light of a tricky glowing cóckroach. The insect, Lucihormetica luckae, sported glowing patches and reflective surfaces on its back which made the roach resemble another glowing insect, the poisonous click beetle. However l...
A planetary scientist visiting Edmonton this weekend wants to send a manned mission to an asteroid. Such a mission would provide more information about the formation of the solar system, said Paul Abell, who works for the Planetary Science Institute and is assigned to the NASA Johnson Space Centre...
Snap the stars to see your photo on ESA portal Have you taken an interesting astronomical photo this year? From planets and moons to the Sun, stars and galaxies, we'd like you to send us your images to feature as our Space Science Image of the Week on 31 December. The ESA Space Science team's favourite im...
Title: The orbits of open clusters in the Galaxy Authors: Zhen-Yu Wu, Xu Zhou, Jun Ma, Cui-Hua Du We present and analyse kinematics and orbits for a sample of 488 open clusters in the Galaxy. The velocity ellipsoid for our present sample is derived as (\sigma_{U}, \sigma_{V}, \sigma_{W})=(28.7, 15...
Although windows can naturally heat buildings in the cold seasons, during the summer they can easily overheat a building. To help with this problem, Japanese scientists at AIST recently developed a thin film which can make transparent glass turn into mirrors. The use of such a window in buildings o...
The Hoxne Hoard is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth century found anywhere within the Roman Empire. Found by a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England, on 16 November...
Orbital elements:
2012 VJ77 Earth MOID = 0.0612 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 57.42066 (2000.0) P Q
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P 0.84 H 22.4...
Orbital elements:
2012 VF77 Earth MOID = 0.0116 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 357.14216 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.86 H 26.2...
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