Lonar's declining salinity is a cause for worryLONAR lake, India; Buldhana district's unique geological feature, has fascinated scientists for decades. The formation of the saline lake has been widely attributed to a meteor impact. But recent studies of the water by scient...
Beyond space and time On the eve of a swirling storm, the rain-drenched campus of the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Nungambakkam is dripping green. A signboard points to its prized possession, a 15-foot long granite pillar, weighing 10 tonnes and surrounded by smaller structures. Erec...
An old idea gives telescopes a fresh twist Putting a new twist on an old idea, an inventor has designed a telescope instrument that could dramatically boost the ability of astronomers to find objects in space, even alien worlds. It's called a Dittoscope, and while it sounds like a piece of copying tec...
Orbital elements:
2012 VC5 Earth MOID = 0.0850 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 351.10898 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21049030 Peri. 189.70157 +0.64788334 -0.75490823
a 2.7988610 Node 220.01891 +0.70906434 +0.64650027
e 0.6165653 Incl. 9.10774 +0.27834321 +0.11023147
P 4.68 H 24.2...
Orbital elements:
2012 VD5 Earth MOID = 0.0026 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 335.01119 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.34833915 Peri. 51.00694 -0.02573249 -0.99925625
a 2.0004814 Node 40.49589 +0.90296348 -0.03556067
e 0.5626246 Incl. 2.53470 +0.42894614 +0.01491245
P 2.83 H 26.3 G 0...
Drilling update - Manicouagan meteorite impact site
- Five bore holes completed to date, further drilling on-going.
- Disseminated sulphide mineralization (minor copper) was encountered in two holes, along with key Sudbury-type geological units in the additional holes, r...
Title: WASP-52b, WASP-58b, WASP-59b, and WASP-60b: four new transiting close-in giant planets Authors: G. Hebrard, A. Collier Cameron, D. J. A. Brown, R. F. Diaz, F. Faedi, B. Smalley, D. R. Anderson, D. Armstrong, S. C. C. Barros, J. Bento, F. Bouchy, A. P. Doyle, B. Enoch, Y. Gomez Maqueo Chew, E. M...
Krisztián Sárneczky (born 6 November 1974 in Budapest) is a Hungarian, Researcher in Konkoly Observatory, teacher, amateur astronomer, Board Member of the Hungarian Astronomical Association (HAA) and member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), leader of the Comet...
Simon Conway Morris FRS (born 6 November 1951) is an English paleontologist who is best known for his detailed and careful study of the Burgess Shale fossils. Read more
CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full rigged ship, with auxiliary steam power, captained by Confederate States Navy Commander James Waddell The CSS Shenandoah was surrendered by Captain Waddell to the Captain of HMS Donegal on November 6, 1865, after travel...
The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, operated by the United States federal government. Construction on B Reactor began in August 1943 and was completed just over a year later, on September 13, 1944. The react...
Orbital elements:
2012 VZ4 Earth MOID = 0.2146 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 3.62261 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31856123 Peri. 304.32110 +0.83760152 +0.46574114
a 2.1232808 Node 31.02791 -0.09201741 +0.63543926
e 0.4981326 Incl. 33.63322 -0.53847609 +0.61587510
P 3.09 H 19.8 G 0...
A Minotaur rocket body that was launched on the 19th May, 2009, from Wallops island launch facility, for the Tacsat-3 mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 5th November, 2012 @ 09:30 GMT ą 32 hours.MINOTAUR RB
1 35006U 09028F 12305.37708301 .01086065 80471-3 70983...
The asteroid will make a close pass (21000 km) to the Earth at 21:30 UT, 6th November, 2009. 9V04E48 was discovered (V = 14.7) on the 6th November, 2009.
James Gregory FRS (November 1638 - October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope - the Gregorian telescope - and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonome...
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