Orbital elements: 2010 LT108 Earth MOID = 0.1387 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 77.24727 (2000.0) P Q n 0.64311893 Peri. 8.87213 -0.97813340 -0.12434357 a 1.3292557 Node 161.30756 +0.14413443 -0.98315751 e 0.3621920 Incl. 31.34496 +0.14993438 +0.13394022 P 1.53 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Title: A pilgrimage to gravity on GPUs Authors: Jeroen Bédorf, Simon Portegies Zwart In this short review we present the developments over the last 5 decades that have led to the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for astrophysical simulations. Since the introduction of NVIDIA's Compute Uni...
Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 - 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry. Read more
Asia's fastest data cable links Tokyo to Singapore A new high-speed undersea data cable has opened to traffic in Asia. The 7,800km Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE) connects Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. It transfers data via an optical fibre system at 40 gigabits per second,...
Xcor Aerospace announced its intention to offer private suborbital space flights in 2010. The company plans to build the Lynx, a two-seat spaceship that is about the size of a private aircraft. The Lynx will let passengers experience weightlessness at the edge of outer space for about four and a hal...
The Boeing Company today announced that Intelsat Ltd., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, has selected Boeing to build four telecommunication satellites that will refresh and add new capacity to Intelsat's global satellite fleet. This contract is the first order for Boe...
Thomas Simpson FRS (20 August 1710 - 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician, inventor and eponym of Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German is the so-ca...
Cambyses II (522 BCE) son of Cyrus the Great (r. 559-530 BCE), was a king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire. Cambyses's grandfather was Cambyses I, king of Anshan. Following Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Near East and Central Asia, Cambyses II further expanded the empire into Egypt during the Lat...
The 290 - 640 metre wide asteroid 2006 CV will make a close pass (67.9 lunar distances, 0.1744 AU), travelling at 13.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th August, 2012 @ 07:33 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989 - the final Doctor of the original programme - and a brief r...
Hurricane Gordon is forecast to make landfall in the Azores probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 20 hours probability for TS is 90% in about 20 hours Ponta Delgada (37.7 N, 25.7 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 20 hours probability for TS...
Tropical Storm Kai-Tak is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 44 hours probability for TS is 60% in about 44 hours Kao-hsiung (22.6 N, 120.3 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 44 hours probability for T...
Orbital elements:
2012 QV2 Earth MOID = 0.0092 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 4.31796 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29730943 Peri. 21.44908 +0.99862212 +0.02054243
a 2.2232942 Node 337.21264 -0.04197689 +0.86492920
e 0.5517370 Incl. 7.16219 +0.03149303 +0.50147331
P 3.32 H 24.0 G 0....
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