Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams has reached Ahmedabad on a week-long visit to India. Williams will spend most of her time in Gujarat, which is her father Deepak Pandya's native state. She is also scheduled to visit the Sabarmati Ashram in the state. The flight engineer is the daughter of a...
Scientists have found that there is a 70 percent chance of shutting down the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean over the next 200 years, with a 45 percent probability of this occurring in this century. The likelihood decreases with mitigation, but even the most rigorous immediat...
Orbital elements:
2007 TF68 Earth MOID = 0.1514 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 314.20197 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.59103767 Peri. 62.40433 +0.17323855 -0.97392600
a 1.4062394 Node 19.37285 +0.67353868 +0.00864428
e 0.2652708 Incl. 26.20516 +0.71856388 +0.22670117
P 1.67 H 22.9...
Giant Magma Bubble in South America Looks Just Like a Sombrero Geologists have found a giant magma bubble that appears to look like a sombrero. Magma bubbles are pockets of air that form in the magma of a volcano; they are usually small in size. This bubble is not only unique for its shape, but it also hap...
Title: From CoRoT 102899501 to the Sun. A time evolution model of chromospheric activity on the main sequence Authors: P. Gondoin, D. Gandolfi, M. Fridlund, A. Frasca, E.W. Guenther, A. Hatzes, H.J. Deeg, H. Parviainen, P. Eigmueller, M. Deleuil Using a model based on the rotational modulation of...
If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than interstellar space.
In a paper published online on December 20, 2006, in the journal Astrophysic...
NASA Astronomer Named MacArthur Fellow Physicist...coronagraphy expert...planet hunter. Now JPL astronomer Olivier Guyon can add a new title to his list: genius. Guyon has been named one of the 2012 MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious award popularly known as the "genius grant." The $...
Orbital elements:
2012 TY79 Earth MOID = 0.3940 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 336.32224 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29517726 Peri. 54.14227 +0.23121044 -0.96353594
a 2.2339877 Node 23.60067 +0.74839760 +0.08768869
e 0.4188382 Incl. 19.65840 +0.62164521 +0.25280266
P 3.34 H 19.7...
Chile's huge open-pit copper mine goes underground From above, it looks like a colossal amphitheatre carved from rock, or the vast crater from a meteorite that crashed into Chile's Atacama desert ages ago. Inside the world's largest open-pit copper mine, dump trucks as big as two-story houses wor...
Title: Cyg OB2 #5: When three stars are just not enough Authors: M. Kennedy, S.M. Dougherty, P.M. Williams, A. Fink Archival observations from the Very Large Array (VLA) at frequencies between 1.4 GHz and 43 GHz of the 6.6-day O6.5-7+O5.5-6 binary Cyg OB2 #5 over 20 years are re-examined. The aim is t...
Tributes have been paid to internationally renowned scientist Professor Keith Campbell, who has died at the age of 58. Professor Campbell was instrumental in the creation of Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned mammal, a breakthrough which paved the way for the successful cloning of many other mamma...
The Delft Explosion, also known in history as the Delft Thunderclap, occurred on 12 October 1654 when a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city. Read more
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932, in Ottawa, Kansas, USA) is a mathematician at the University of Florida noted for his work in the field of finite groups. Read more
Jeanne-Geneviève Garnerin (1775-1847), born Labrosse, was a French balloonist and parachutist. She was the wife of André-Jacques Garnerin, a hydrogen balloonist and inventor of the frameless parachute. Labrosse first flew on 10 November 1798, one of the earliest women to fly in a balloon. She s...
Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev (born October 12, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics. Read more
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