A new study by UCLA planetary scientists and their colleagues in Germany overturns a longstanding scientific tenet and provides new insights into how convection controls much of what we observe in planets and stars. The research, federally funded by the National Science Foundation, unifies res...
Title: Direct constraint on the distance of γ˛ Velorum from AMBER/VLTI observations
Authors: F. Millour, et al
In this work, we present the first AMBER observations, of the Wolf-Rayet and O (WR+O) star binary system γ˛ Velorum. The AMBER instrument was used with...
Title: The first optical light from the supernova remnant G182.4+4.3 located in the Galactic anti-centre region Authors: A. Sezer, F. Gok, E. Aktekin We report the discovery of optical filamentary and diffuse emission from G182.4+4.3 using 1.5-m Russian-Turkish telescope. We present the opti...
Orbital elements:
2012 QP10 Earth MOID = 0.3106 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 339.12069 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.42290263 Peri. 271.52421 +0.68105060 -0.70528015
a 1.7578256 Node 133.38641 +0.73189999 +0.64752983
e 0.3559374 Incl. 15.71594 +0.02219189 +0.28859146
P 2.33 H 19...
Orbital elements:
2012 QA17 Earth MOID = 0.4816 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 331.98093 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.49036971 Peri. 10.92922 -0.52929649 -0.68245329
a 1.5926498 Node 112.97352 +0.73128567 -0.66821263
e 0.7275753 Incl. 33.19647 +0.43019355 +0.29622524
P 2.01 H 17....
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