Orbital elements:
2012 TL139
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 359.95413 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00420094 Peri. 273.51353 +0.77674874 +0.56940922
a 38.0398373 Node 308.02036 +0.62145909 -0.76230353
e 0.9070364 Incl. 160.02353 -0.10222520 -0.30767918
P 235 H 14.7 G 0.15 U 4 MPEC 201...
Mysterious Elk-Shaped Structure Discovered in Russia A huge geoglyph in the shape of an elk or deer discovered in Russia may predate Peru's famous Nazca Lines by thousands of years. The animal-shaped stone structure, located near Lake Zjuratkul in the Ural Mountains, north of Kazakhstan, has an e...
The first recorded use of indigo as a colour name in English was in 1289. It was Isaac Newton who first introduced indigo as a spectral colour. In the mid-1660s, when Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, the East India Company was beginning to import indigo dye into England, supplant...
The 10 Additional Metropolitan Magistrate court on Friday extended Judicial custody of Buela Sam to 25 of this month. Ms. Sam was caught for intruding into ISRO campus on fake ID card posing as environmental scientist, hoodwinking the CISF security. [url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/citi...
When Stanford computer scientist Vladlen Koltun decided to build a better virtual world, he began with 3-D treesmillions of them. Now he wants to give them away. Trees, like almost all objects in virtual worlds, whether in video games or Internet social communities like World of Warcraft or Second...
Amateur stargazer spots 'meteor' burning up over Grantham Amateur stargazer Nigel Booth spotted what he believes was a meteor burning up over Grantham last night. Nigel and his wife Debbie, of East Street, saw the round orange and blue light moving across the sky for almost three minutes - before it...
Ascanio Sobrero (October 12, 1812 - May 26, 1888) was an Italian chemist, born in Casale Monferrato. He was studying under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin, who had worked with the explosive material guncotton. During his research he discovered nitroglycerine. He initially ca...
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Get ready for "a Time Travel" in Turin, Italy, from October 14 to 20, 2012 The conference focuses on causality and nonlocality in physics, with emphasis on their relation with time machines. In particular these issues will be dealt with from the viewpoints of General Relativity and Quan...
Mordechai Vanunu (born 14 October 1954) is a former Israeli nuclear technician who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged an...
Sir John William Dawson, CMG, FRS, FRSC (October 13, 1820 - November 19, 1899), was a Canadian geologist and university administrator. John William Dawson was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he attended and graduated from Pictou Academy. Of Scottish descent, Dawson attended the University of...
Giuseppe Bianchi (13 October 1791 in Modena - 25 December 1866) was an Italian astronomer. After studying mathematics, physics, and astronomy at Padua, Bianchi taught astronomy at the University of Modena starting in 1819, and under his direction the Observatory of Modena was built in 1826. In 18...
Hamilton Moore Jeffers (13 October 1893 - 28 May 1978) was a noted astronomer. Jeffers was noted for the accuracy and precision of his work, which included extensive observations of double stars. Read more