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Orbital elements:
2012 RB3 Earth MOID = 0.1546 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 23.41016 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.04 H 20.6...
Orbital elements:
2012 RL2 Earth MOID = 0.0520 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 2.82053 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.32 H 23.7 G 0...
WIYN telescope to get billion-pixel camera The number of larger-aperture telescopes is growing, but size isn't all that matters in a research telescope. Also important is how much of the sky the telescope can clearly image. A telescope used by Indiana University astronomers and their colle...
The 21-inch optical telescope used by University of Arizona undergraduates for research and by the public for viewing stars and planets will be renamed this month to honour the late Raymond E. White, Jr. The telescope is housed in the historic 1922 Campus Station dome on the west side of Steward Obse...
Belarus aims for record-breaking space telescopes The A.V. Lykov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus cooperates with the Belarusian company OAO Peleng for the sake of creating promising equipment for magnetorheological polishing of mirrors for opti...
Outcrops of clay rich crust in Mawrth Vallis, Mars, revealed by OMEGA and HRSC/MEX
D. Loizeau, N. Mangold (IDES-Orsay), F. Poulet, J.-P. Bibring, A. Gendrin, C. Gomez, Y. Langevin, B. Gondet (IAS-Orsay), V. Ansan, P. Masson (IDES-Orsay), G. Neukum (FU-Berlin), OMEGA Team, HRSC...
Organisers promise Leuchars Airshow will be 'Typhoon-tastic' When it was announced earlier this year that 6 Squadron, based at RAF Leuchars, had been given the task of reintroducing the Typhoon aerobatic display, RAF Leuchars Station Commander Air Commodore Gavin Parker said the base was ''ext...
Curious about Life: Interview with Danny Glavin The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterise the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ever had the potential for life. The Sample Analysis...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on Mars. Yellowknife for a 0.12-km-wide Martian crater located at 4.58°S, 137.44°E. The feature was named in honour of a town the in Northwest Territories, Canada.
Title: Evolution in the Dust Lane Fraction of Edge-on L* Spiral Galaxies since z=0.8 Authors: B.W. Holwerda (ESA), J. J. Dalcanton (University of Washington), D. Radburn-Smith (University of Washington), R. S. de Jong (AIP), P. Guhathakurta (Santa Cruz), A. Koekemoer (STSCI), R. J. Allen (STSC...
Title: Pulsational amplitude growth of the star KIC 3429637 (HD 178875) in the context of Am and rho Puppis stars Authors: Simon J. Murphy, A. Grigahcene, E. Niemczura, D. W. Kurtz, K. Uytterhoeven KIC 3429637 (HD 178875) is a delta Sct star whose light-curve shows continuous pulsational amplitud...
An international team of astrophysicists, combing through data from a NASA X-ray satellite, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, reports in the July 20th issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters that the explosion produced vibrations within the star, like a ringing bell, that generated rapi...
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Latitude: 13.78288, Longitude: 80.25191
* Main launch centre of ISRO, 100 km north of Chennai.
* Processes solid propellant motors and conducts ground tests
* La...
Orbital elements: 2007 RW10 Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 50.76341 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00591108 Peri. 96.62768 +0.21276509 +0.97444365 a 30.2941133 Node 187.02715 -0.95075702 +0.22347150 e 0.2996567 Incl. 36.07891 +0.22537104 +0.02280467 P 166.74 H 5.6 G 0.15 U 4 MPEC 2008 -X68
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