Eugenio Beltrami (November 16, 1835, Cremona - February 18, 1900, Rome) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. Read more
Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (November 16, 1841, Langres, Haute-Marne - September 12, 1923, Fixin) was a French physicist and inventor. He is notable for having determined the solar constant at Mont Blanc in 1875, and, in 1881, for proposing a standard for luminous intensity, called the Violle, equ...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (sometimes abbreviated to CE3K and often referred to as just Close Encounters) is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey....
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From November 15th to 19th will take place the second edition of the race of solar-powered vehicles known as "Atacama Solar Challenge". It will cross the Atacama Desert, the driest in the world, receiving the highest solar radiation on the Earth's surface that reaches more than 1.100 W/...
Orbital elements:
2012 VK77 Earth MOID = 0.0808 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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P 3.28 H 25.2 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 VH77 Earth MOID = 0.0001 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 358.01838 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.03 H 27.4...
Lemon tart craters on Mercury are solar system first Spotted by a NASA probe, the craters are unlike anything seen on other rocky worlds, adding to the diversity of geologic processes known to occur in the solar system. The pies were found in Mercury's northern highlands, which were flooded repeate...
Orbital elements:
2012 VT76 Earth MOID = 0.0039 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 358.08769 (2000.0) P Q
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a 2.1055248 Node 218.06226 +0.01886004 +0.92991912
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P 3.06 H 26....
Orbital elements:
2012 VV76 Earth MOID = 0.0009 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 357.58069 (2000.0) P Q
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P 4.16 H 25.6...
Title: Rebirth of X-ray Emission from the Born-Again Planetary Nebula A 30 Authors: M. A. Guerrero, N. Ruiz, W.-R. Hamann, Y.-H. Chu, H. Todt, D. Schoenberner, L. Oskinova, R. A. Gruendl, M. Steffen, W. P. Blair, J. A. Toala The planetary nebula (PN) A 30 is believed to have undergone a very late therm...
Orbital elements:
2012 VP76 Earth MOID = 0.0832 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 342.43507 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.4398070 Incl. 5.88215 +0.33335957 +0.15168432
P 2.64 H 23....
