Orbital elements:
2012 UB174 Earth MOID = 0.0157 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 16.71534 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.65368748 Peri. 117.55748 +0.83337094 +0.53006530
a 1.3148895 Node 211.18752 -0.55009756 +0.82297436
e 0.3309753 Incl. 17.60242 +0.05371729 +0.20431344
P 1.51 H 24...
Cyclone Nilam hits Indian coast after Sri Lanka flooding The south-eastern coast of India has been hit by Cyclone Nilam, with wind speeds reaching 100km/h. Read more
Title: On the impossible NGC 4372 V1 and V2: an extended AGB to the [Fe/H] = -2.2 cluster Authors: Iain McDonald, Albert A. Zijlstra, Andry Rajoelimanana, Christian I. Johnson The asymptotic giant branch (AGB) of the globular cluster NGC 4372 appears to extend to unexpectedly high luminosities. W...
Title: NSV 11749, an elder sibling of the born again stars V605 Aql and V4334 Sgr? Authors: M. M. Miller Bertolami, R. D. Rohrmann, A. Granada, L. G. Althaus We argue that NSV 11749, an eruption observed in the early twentieth century, was a rare event known as "very late thermal pulse" (VLT...
Wylfa nuclear plant: Hitachi officials visit Anglesey Officials from Japanese firm Hitachi will visit Anglesey later after taking over a project to build a new nuclear power station on the island. The Horizon development aims to build a £8bn replacement for the Wylfa plant. [url=http://www.bbc...
Title: Astronomy and Computing: a New Journal for the Astronomical Computing Community Authors: Alberto Accomazzi, Tamás Budavári, Christopher Fluke, Norman Gray, Robert G Mann, William O'Mullane, Andreas Wicenec, Michael Wise We introduce Astronomy and Computing, a new journal for the gro...
Psychic pair fail scientific test A scientific experiment has found that two mediums were unable to demonstrate that they had special psychic powers. Read more
Title: T-Cyg1-12664: A low-mass chromospherically active eclipsing binary in the Kepler field Authors: O. Cakirli, C. Ibanoglu, E. Sipahi The eclipsing binary T-Cyg1-12664 was observed both spectroscopically and photometrically. Radial velocities of both components and ground-based VRI...
Title: Implications of the SPEAR FUV Maps on Our Understanding of the ISM Authors: Eric J. Korpela (1), Martin Sirk (1), Jerry Edelstein (1), Kwangil Seon (2), Kyoung-Wook Min (3), Wonyong Han (2) ((1) Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California (2) Korea Astronomy and Space Science Inst...
Tropical Storm Sandy is forecast to make landfall in Jamaica probability for CAT 1 or above is 55% within 7 hours probability for TS is 95% within 7 hours Kingston (18.0 N, 76.8 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 55% within 7 hours probability for TS is 95% with...
A Soyuz U rocket with the Progress 49P/M-17M is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 07:41 UT, 31st October, 2012. The unmanned cargo ship will deliver supplies to the International Space Station. Docking (to Zvezda aft) is scheduled for around 13:40 UT, 1st November, 2012. Nasa TV L...
Title: Density and Eccentricity of Kepler Planets Authors: Yanqin Wu (Toronto), Yoram Lithwick (Northwestern) We analyse the transit timing variations obtained by the Kepler mission for 22 sub-jovian planet pairs (17 published, 5 new) that lie close to mean motion resonances. We find that the T...
A new astronomical facility for Peru: transforming a 32m-antenna into a radio telescope
There are some big antennae around that are not used anymore, because communication has been replaced by other means. Making telescopes out of them requires expertise which not necessarily available. F...
Leiden University Library is a library founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. It is regarded as a significant place in the development of European culture: it is a part of a small number of cultural centres that gave direction to the development and spread of knowledge during the Enlightenment. T...
Daniel John "Dan" Alderson (October 31, 1941 - May 17, 1989) was a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and a prominent participant in science fiction fandom. A high school science fair project on the gravitational fields of non-spherical bodies won him a college...
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