SDSMT President Robert Wharton Dies South Dakota School of Mines and Technology President Robert Wharton has passed away. The school made the announcement Wednesday morning after the Executive Council learned of his death. No cause of death was given. [url=http://www.keloland.com/News/new...
An asteroid between one and four km in diameter splashed into the Southern Ocean, 1500 km SW of Chile, and may have worsened a period of global cooling that saw the emergence of modern humans... At the time of the Eltanin impact, Homo erectus was emerging in Africa
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The Kolka-Karmadon rock-ice slide occurred on the northern slope of the Kazbek massif in North Ossetia, Russia on the 20th of September 2002 following a partial collapse of the Kolka Glacier. It started on the north-northeast wall of Dzhimarai-Khokh, 4,780 m above sea level, and seriously affect...
Keith John Kingston Roberts (20 September 1935 - 5 October 2000), was an English science fiction author. He began publishing with two stories in the September 1964 issue of Science Fantasy magazine, "Anita" (the first of a series of stories featuring a teenage modern witch and her eccen...
Title: Active galaxy 4U 1344-60: did the relativistic line disappear? Authors: Jiri Svoboda, Stefano Bianchi, Matteo Guainazzi, Giorgio Matt, Enrico Piconcelli, Vladimir Karas, Michal Dovciak X-ray bright active galactic nuclei represent a unique astrophysical laboratory for studying ac...
Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as the 'QE2', is an ocean liner that was operated by Cunard from 1969 to 2008. The ship was launched on the 20th September, 1967. Read more
A shipwreck from imperial Roman, found off Cape Greco towards the Protaras area, Cyprus, could lead to the discovery of vessels sunk in antiquity's largest naval engagement, the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC. During late July and early August, a small international team of archaeologists and studen...
A great hall in Eleusis, Telesterion ("Initiation Hall") was one of the primary centers of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Devoted to Demeter and Persephone, these initiation ceremonies were the most sacred and ancient of all the religious rites celebrated in Greece. The festival of Ele...
The 31st IMC will be organised on the island La Palma of the Canary archipelago, Spain, from 20 to 23 September 2012. The standard IMC fee is set unchanged at 155 EUR. The local organisation is coordinated by Gabriela and Ovidiu Vaduvescu and further supported by an international team (Geert Barents...
Orbital elements:
2012 SK8 Earth MOID = 0.1285 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 44.26509 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.63564292 Peri. 119.19017 +0.55967388 +0.82789602
a 1.3396579 Node 185.30509 -0.82848587 +0.56000809
e 0.2259777 Incl. 23.44567 +0.01939893 +0.03129082
P 1.55 H 20.1...
Mystery Ball Is A Meteorite Claim Austrian experts are investigating a mysterious metal ball weighing four tonnes after it was dug up during work to build a road at Waizenkirchen at Grieskirchen in Upper Austria. The discovery has caused heated debate among locals with some saying it was a meteorit...
Title: The orbital and superhump periods of the deeply eclipsing dwarf nova PU UMa Authors: Jeremy Shears, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Colin Littlefield, Ian Miller, Etienne Morelle, Roger Pickard, Jochen Pietz, Richard Sabo We report unfiltered photometry during superoutbursts of PU UMa in 2009 an...
Title: The astronomisings of Dr. Anderson and the curious case of his disappearing nova Authors: Jeremy Shears Dr. Thomas David Anderson (1853-1932) was a Scottish amateur astronomer famed for his discovery of two bright novae: Nova Aurigae 1891 and Nova Persei 1901. He also discovered more than...
