Orbital elements:
2012 QY14 Earth MOID = 0.2512 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 358.31850 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.26600335 Peri. 123.31918 +0.99660091 -0.06679320
a 2.3944805 Node 240.55279 +0.04412701 +0.92710716
e 0.4786924 Incl. 3.17439 +0.06956597 +0.36879666
P 3.71 H 20....
NASA Rocket Mission Carrying University Student Experiments University students will put their academic skills to the test when atmospheric and technology experiments they developed fly on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket. The launch will take place between 6:30 and 10 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 2...
Launch date of MSG-3 reset to 5 July 2012 Arianespace has announced that the launch date of the MSG-3 satellite from the European Spaceport in Kourou, originally foreseen for 19 June, has been reset to the evening of the 5 July 2012. The delay is due to additional checks that were made on the EchoStar 1...
In the wake of yesterdays tsunami in the Solomon Islands, National Geographic News looks at how the killer waves are caused, what the warning signs are, and how to respo...
A Fresnel lens is a type of lens developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel for lighthouses; a similar design had previously been proposed by Buffon and Condorcet as a way to make large burning lenses. Read more
ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images v2.0 app now available An updated version of the popular ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images app is now available to download from iTunes. The new version takes full advantage of the third generation iPads retina display and quad core graphics. Read more
Launch of UNESCO-IAU Astronomical Heritage Web Portal A new UNESCO-IAU online Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy has been launched today at the IAU's 28th General Assembly in Beijing, China. The site, which resides at www.astronomicalheritage.net, is a dynamic, publicly accessible database...
Teachers at Telstar Middle/High School have homeroom groups called satellites. The staff prides itself on open communication with students. And at one time, sports teams were called the Telstar Satellites. All this goes back to the unique place in history of the SAD 44 school district: Just over t...
National campaign launched to recruit Fellows to understand how software can help research The UK's Software Sustainability Institute is on the lookout for a team of researchers to take part in its new Fellows programme to develop a better understanding of the way that software is used in research...
Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov (born 24 August 1964 in Uzgen, Osh oblast, Kirghiz SSR, now in Kyrgyzstan) is a Kyrgyz cosmonaut of Uzbek ancestry. Sharipov is a co-author and investigator for the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity project. He has been to space twice and has conducted...
James Weddell (Ostend, August 24, 1787 - September 9, 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in the early Spring of 1823 sailed to latitude of 74°15' S (a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle) and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became k...
Hurricane Andrew strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane on August 23, 1992. The system weakened slightly over the Bahamas to a Category 4 hurricane, but briefly re-intensified into a Category 5 hurricane on August 24 before making landfall on Elliott Key, and later in Homestead, Florida. Read...
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