Title: Young stars in Epsilon Cha and their disks: disk evolution in sparse associations Authors: M. Fang, R. van Boekel, J. Bouwman, Th. Henning, W. A. Lawson, A. Sicilia-Aguilar The nearby young stellar association Epsilon Cha association has an estimated age of 3-5 Myr, making it an ideal labor...
Lothar-Siegfried Freiherr von Richthofen (27 September 1894 - 4 July 1922) was a German First World War fighter ace credited with 40 victories. He was a younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) and a distant cousin of Luftwaffe Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen...
Rodney Michael John Cotterill Order of the Dannebrog (27 September 1933 - 24 June 2007) was an English-Danish physicist, and neuroscientist, who was educated at University College London (B.Sc., 1st), Yale (M.S.) and Cambridge University (Ph.D.). Read more
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 was a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Test pilot Roland Beamont finally made the first flight from the Aeroplane and Ar...
Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation has celebrated World Tourism Day on September 27. This date was chosen as on that day in 1970, the Statutes of the UNWTO were adopted. The adoption of these Statutes is considered a milestone in global tourism. The purpose of this day is to rai...
Orbital elements:
2012 SS56 Earth MOID = 0.0543 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 7.35485 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.37986009 Peri. 163.77168 +0.97144005 +0.23188308
a 1.8882244 Node 184.02212 -0.19609565 +0.90399658
e 0.4470719 Incl. 45.86831 +0.13360661 -0.35919413
P 2.59 H 22.0...
OpenDyslexic font gains ground with help of Instapaper A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining favour. OpenDyslexic's characters have been given "heavy-weighted bottoms" to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds...
Title: Hot DB White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Authors: Daniel J. Eisenstein, James Liebert, Detlev Koester, S.J. Kleinmann, Atsuko Nitta, Paul S. Smith, J.C. Barentine, Howard J. Brewington, J. Brinkmann, Michael Harvanek, Jurek Krzesinski, Eric H. Neilsen Jr...
Title: PSR B0826-34: Sometimes a RRAT Authors: A. Esamdin, D. Abdurixit, R. N. Manchester, H. B. Niu We report on the detection of sporadic, strong single pulses co-existing with a periodic weak emission in the duration of weak mode of PSR B0826-34. The intensities and durations of these pulses are...
Google Buys Wind Power for Oklahoma Data Centre U.S. Internet company Google Inc on Wednesday agreed to buy 48 megawatts (MW) of wind energy for its Oklahoma data centre from the Canadian Hills wind power project in Oklahoma, which is expected to enter service later this year. [url=http://www.sci...
Title: The return of the Andromedids meteor shower Authors: Paul A. Wiegert, Peter G. Brown, Robert J. Weryk, Daniel K. Wong The Andromedid meteor shower underwent spectacular outbursts in 1872 and 1885, producing thousands of visual meteors per hour and described as 'stars fell like rain' in Chi...
On Napoleon's 1798 campaign in Egypt, the expeditionary army was accompanied by the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a corps of 167 technical experts (savants). In mid-July 1799, as French soldiers under the command of Colonel d'Hautpoul were strengthening the defences of Fort Julien, a coup...
