Orbital elements:
2012 UV158 Earth MOID = 0.0384 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 354.97962 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.52406886 Peri. 161.50999 +0.95494200 -0.21805143
a 1.5236217 Node 213.22825 +0.20408412 +0.97499367
e 0.3304014 Incl. 21.55733 +0.21548886 +0.04290588
P 1.88 H 2...
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Reveals Dark Secrets of the Universe Astronomers from France and Canada have publicly released the final version of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS), a unique and powerful multi-color collection of data obtained over 6...
Title: A multi-spacecraft view of a giant filament eruption during 26/27 September 2009 Authors: Sanjay Gosain, Brigitte Schmieder, Guy Artzner, Sergei Bogachev, Tibor Torok We analyse multi-spacecraft observations of a giant filament eruption that occurred during 26 and 27 September 2009....
Title: A Double Planetary System around the Evolved Intermediate-Mass Star HD 4732 Authors: Bun'ei Sato, Masashi Omiya, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Hiroki Harakawa, Makiko Nagasawa, Hideyuki Izumiura, Eiji Kambe, Yoichi Takeda, Michitoshi Yoshida, Yoichi Itoh, Hiroyasu Ando, Eiichiro Kokubo, S...
Gibraltar Point gears up for school holidays Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve south of Skegness has announced plans for a series of events to get children off the sofa and outdoors this half-term. Some of the fun-filled activities taking place at the reserve will include apples and orchards themed e...
UT installing planetarium in Nielson Physics Building Stargazing will no longer require a sky - at least not at the University of Tennessee campus. The physics and astronomy department is installing a 20-foot planetarium in a high-ceilinged classroom in the Nielson Physics Building. The roughl...
Eighth asteroid named after China university An asteroid has been named after a space science university -- the eighth asteroid with a Chinese university name -- according to China's National Astronomical Observatories. The Beihang Asteroid has been approved by the Small Bodies Naming Committ...
Salton Sea volcanoes much younger than previously thought The Salton Buttes, a line of four small volcanoes on the Salton Seas southeastern shore, are not only still considered active by scientists, new research indicates they last erupted thousands of years more recently than previously thoug...
A black widow's Tango Mortale in gamma-ray light Max Planck scientists discover record-breaking millisecond pulsar with new analysis method Pulsars are the compact remnants from explosions of massive stars. Some of them spin around their own axis hundreds of times per second, emitting beams of...
Orbital elements:
2012 UQ138 Earth MOID = 0.2901 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 349.08608 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29097862 Peri. 71.66805 +0.72865314 -0.68392701
a 2.2554264 Node 331.44938 +0.59632308 +0.65952412
e 0.4366481 Incl. 4.34058 +0.33684328 +0.31188424
P 3.39 H 23....
Orbital elements:
2012 UO138 Earth MOID = 0.2704 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 332.96073 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.35776230 Peri. 216.00892 +0.80783645 -0.58940102
a 1.9651981 Node 180.18225 +0.50578861 +0.69096667
e 0.6600198 Incl. 54.53542 -0.30261884 -0.41853494
P 2.75 H 1...
Orbital elements:
2012 UN138
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 357.89843 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.02974931 Peri. 21.43589 +0.65947714 -0.74057324
a 10.3153703 Node 27.80884 +0.64323603 +0.46712357
e 0.6627440 Incl. 16.05232 +0.38902096 +0.48305987
P 33.13 H 15.5 G 0.15 U 6 MPEC 2012...