'Saturday in the Park' is October 20th The 2nd annual 'Saturday in the Park' will be held on October 20th at Fisher Farm Park in Davidson, NC. Featuring nature hikes, kids activities, a camp fire and family fun, this popular event will culminate with a rare opportunity to spend the night under the star...
People invited to learn about the stars People are invited to stargaze from inside an inflatable Star Lab at Hillview Recreation Area. The free program, open to all ages, will be from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 at the park, 1 mile west of Hinton, Plymouth. [url=http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/...
The Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. She was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway and was crushed by ice, causing her to sink, three years later in the Weddell Sea off Antarcti...
China's lifting of the of ban on access to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been reversed.
The site has again been blocked to several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible.
China first banned access to the English and Chinese versions in October last year, over...
Inspired by the painting "Portrait of a Lady as an Astronomer," Kresge Library's "Charting the Universe" exhibit, which is on display in Fairchild Hall, draws on objects from Dartmouth's King Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments to showcase the tools that contr...
China installs largest optical telescope in Antarctica A Chinese expedition team to Antarctica has finished installing and testing the largest optical telescope in the snow-capped region, experts said. The AST3-1 Antarctic Survey Telescope was installed by researchers from China's 28th An...
Grasshopper Takes Its First Hop / 9-21-12 On Friday, September 21, 2012 SpaceX's Grasshopper vertical takeoff and landing test vehicle (VTVL) took its first test flight hop from the company's rocket testing facility in McGregor, Texas....
Bryan John Birch F.R.S. (born 25 September 1931) is a British mathematician. His name has been given to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Read more
Paul B. MacCready, Jr. (September 25, 1925 - August 28, 2007) was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could &...
4th IAA Symposium on Searching for Life Signatures, Republic of San Marino (Italy), 25-28 September 2012 The goals of the "Searching for Life Signatures" Conference are to gather a large conference of experts in SETI, biosignatures, the search for terrestrial exoplanets and related...
Title: Giant pulse emission from PSR B0950+08 Authors: Ashok K. Singal, Hari Om Vats We present here the detection of giant-pulse emission from PSR B0950+08, a normal-period pulsar. The observations, made at 103 MHz and lasting for about ten months, have shown on a number of days the frequency of oc...
Orbital elements: 2009 QO8 Earth MOID = 0.4636 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 24.22769 (2000.0) P Q n 0.37774753 Peri. 257.10456 -0.46701902 +0.86754953 a 1.8952578 Node 341.78584 -0.43491070 -0.39376841 e 0.3467320 Incl. 33.17322 -0.76989994 -0.30381615 P 2.61 H 19.2 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Orbital elements:
2011 JK PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0222 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 317.03522 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.37693390 Peri. 10.83434 -0.82682963 +0.56053434
a 1.8979842 Node 203.44321 -0.52437028 -0.79806486
e 0.4614057 Incl. 6.69929 -0.20344183 -0.22111927
P 2.61 H 18.4...
