Stargazing sessions set at UWRF The University of Wisconsin-River Falls Physics Department begins its fall season of free, public observatory viewings and astronomy discussions on Sept. 18. The first stargazing session on Tuesday, Sept. 18, includes a talk by physics Professor Eileen Korenic...
Smoking Gun Research Agency offers mystery-exploring classes The Orange-based Smoking Gun Research Agency will be hosting new classes "Exploring Unsolved Mysteries" as part of the Foothills Continuing Education programs in Litchfield, Southbury, and Thomaston in October. The c...
Zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, diffuse white glow seen in the night sky that appears to extend up from the vicinity of the Sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. It is best seen just after sunset and before sunrise in spring and autumn when the zodiac is at a steep angle to the horizon. Caused b...
Collimating a telescope is lining up its optical components (lenses, mirrors, prisms, eyepieces) in their proper positions. This should be accurately done, or else the image quality will suffer. Different telescope types, like Newtonian, Schmidt-Cassegrain, or refractors all need good coll...
Orbital elements:
2012 RJ10 Earth MOID = 0.0091 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 20.26575 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30649724 Peri. 294.03300 +0.21303791 +0.97691980
a 2.1786377 Node 348.23554 -0.86638142 +0.18151592
e 0.6235093 Incl. 4.38089 -0.45166148 +0.11260409
P 3.22 H 25.3...
The 66 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2002 RP137 will make a close pass (63.2 lunar distances, 0.1624 AU), travelling at 7.31 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th September, 2012 @ 06:53 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
Antoine Parent (September 16, 1666 - September 26, 1716) was a French mathematician, born at Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions. His works were collected and published in three volumes at Paris in 1713. Read more
The Soviet Navy's Project 611 (NATO reporting name: Zulu class) were one of the first Soviet post-war attack submarines Six were converted in 1956 to become the world's first ballistic missile submarines, one armed with a single R-11FM Scud missile and five others with two Scuds each. Soviet subm...
42. International Symposium on Multiparticle DynamicsDates:from 16 September 2012 18:00 to 21 September 2012 16:30Timezone:Europe/WarsawLocation:Jan Kochanowski University 15 Swietokrzyska Street,
25-406 Kielce, PolandRead more
In an appalling tragic coincidence, ED BISHOP and MICHAEL BILLINGTON, the two lead actors in Gerry Anderson's 1969 series UFO have both died this week within days of each other. Michael Bi...
Collins Pocket Guide - Stars and Planets by Ian Ridpath, Wil Tirion Collins Pocket Guide Stars and Planets guides the amateur astronomer to the most splendid celestial sights, all visible with the use of binoculars or an average-sized telescope. Monthly maps of the night sky as seen from latitude...
First results from the GOODS NICMOS survey, the largest Hubble Space Telescope programme ever led from outside of the United States, reveal how the most massive galaxies in the early Universe assembled to form the most massive objects in the Universe today. Dr Chris Conselice from the University o...
Orbital elements:
2010 SS3 Earth MOID = 0.3861 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 47.34691 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.48102783 Peri. 101.61852 +0.39678876 +0.91221404
a 1.6132038 Node 193.23629 -0.91445258 +0.40248627
e 0.2421186 Incl. 26.48162 +0.07959371 +0.07661821
P 2.05 H 21.0...
