Title: Opening the 100-Year Window for Time Domain Astronomy Authors: Jonathan Grindlay, Sumin Tang, Edward Los, Mathieu Servillat The large-scale surveys such as PTF, CRTS and Pan-STARRS-1 that have emerged within the past 5 years or so employ digital databases and modern analysis tools to acc...
Orbital elements:
2012 VB5 Earth MOID = 0.0120 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 332.63697 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.32580659 Peri. 257.83748 -0.47076431 -0.87987143
a 2.0916843 Node 220.45298 +0.84334897 -0.42719176
e 0.6518517 Incl. 5.73747 +0.25912058 -0.20816693
P 3.03 H 26.1...
Apollo 4, also known as Apollo-Saturn 501 (AS-501), was an A type mission - the first flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, carrying no crew. It was also the first flight of the S-IC and S-II stages of the rocket. The launch, at 7:00 a.m. EST on November 9, 1967 from Launch Complex 39, was the first from th...
Broward College Presents "Carl Sagan Day: A Celebration of Science" Renowned astronomer the late Carl Sagan, who died in December 1996, was probably most familiar to the public through his COSMOS series on PBS. He was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a professor of astronomy an...
Darmstadtium is a chemical element with the symbol Ds and atomic number 110. It is placed as the heaviest member of group 10 but a sufficiently stable isotope is not known which would allow chemical experiments to confirm its place. This synthetic element is one of the so-called super-heavy atoms an...
Title: TYC 1031 1262 1: An Anomalous Cepheid in a double-lined eclipsing binary Authors: E. Sipahi, C. Ibanoglu, O. Cakirli, S. Evren Multi-colour light curves and radial velocities for TYC 1031 1262 1 have been obtained and analysed. TYC 1031 1262 1 includes a Cepheid with a period of 4.15270 ±0.00...
Odd pair of aging stars sculpt spectacular shape of planetary nebula Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the centre of one of the most remarkable examples of a planetary nebula. The new result confirms a long-debated theory about what...
Painting Exhibit by Tucson Artist/Scientist William Hartmann Opens Nov. 9 A unique exhibition of paintings by William K. Hartmann titled "From Tucson to Mars - And Beyond" is being hosted by the Northern Trust Bank from Nov. 9 through Dec. 27. Three gallery rooms at the branch at 6444 E. T...
A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 11:01:05 (UTC) on Saturday, January 05, 2008, in the Queen Charlotte islands region, 158 km WNW from Port Hardy, BC, Canada, at a depth of 10 km. Location 51.299°N, 130.713°W A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 11:44:48 (UTC) on Saturday, Ja...
November 8 - 11, 2012 Buffalo Niagara Convention Centre Buffalo, NY SpaceVision 2012 is the largest student-run and student-focused space conference in the nation. SpaceVision is the national convention of SEDS-USA, and serves to highlight the future of our generation's effect on the future of...
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. Read more
Moon Crater Reveals Vital Secrets of Impacts Scientists trying to understand the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies have found a good case study on the moon. Linné Crater, which lies in the moon's Mare Serenitatis region, is just 2.2 kilometres wide, but extremely young and...
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