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Orbital elements: 2009 BF Earth MOID = 0.2690 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 189.17023 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39376404 Peri. 346.19209 +0.29609393 +0.63536552 a 1.8435094 Node 296.05147 -0.78356288 -0.26541881 e 0.3062950 Incl. 52.54620 -0.54622119 +0.72516447 P 2.50 H 18.5 G 0.15 U 9M...

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To mark the European Researchers' Night, CERN is opening its doors of its control rooms. You are aged between 13 and 18 years old? You want to spend two hours behind the LHC's commands or one of his experiences? Read more

Victor Francis Hess (24 June 1883 - 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays. Read more Wulf (Victor Hess) electroscope improved version TELESCOPES OF THE INVISIB...

Visitors are being warned not to enter the crater of Mt Ngauruhoe in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand, due to an increase in its volcanic alert level. The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences says very small earthquakes under the volcano have increased over the past month to up to 50...

The Battle of Crannon (322 BC), fought between the Macedonian forces of Antipater and Craterus and rebellious Greek forces led by the Athenians, was the decisive battle of the Lamian War. Macedonian victory, though militarily unspectacular, convinced the Greeks to sue for peace. This marked the...

Explorer 6 (1959-004A or S-2) was a United States satellite launched on August 7, 1959. It was a small, spheroidal satellite designed to study trapped radiation of various energies, galactic cosmic rays, geomagnetism, radio propagation in the upper atmosphere, and the flux of micrometeorites....

Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Oc...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for nine craters on Mercury. Egonu for a 25-km-wide crater located at 67.4°N, 299.2°E. The feature was named in honour of the Nigerian artist Uzo Egonu (1931-1996). Gaudí for a 81-km-wide crater located at 76.9°N, 290...

Orbital elements: 2012 OU5 Earth MOID = 0.2603 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 15.80626 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32104489 Peri. 182.32388 +0.75503603 +0.64840453 a 2.1123159 Node 136.72931 -0.59926187 +0.74270646 e 0.3970736 Incl. 8.17157 -0.26609361 +0.16720852 P 3.07 H 21.7 G...

Orbital elements: 2012 OT5 Earth MOID = 0.1805 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 46.91406 (2000.0) P Q n 0.48233154 Peri. 147.65502 +0.12194521 +0.98944019 a 1.6102956 Node 129.22671 -0.93080327 +0.14140619 e 0.2621212 Incl. 5.80437 -0.34457893 -0.03181811 P 2.04 H 21.9 G...

Title: The Palomar/Keck Adaptive Optics Survey of Young Solar Analogues: Evidence for a Universal Companion Mass Function Authors: Stanimir Metchev, Lynne Hillenbrand We present results from an adaptive optics survey for substellar and stellar companions to Sun-like stars. The survey targe...

The lowest point on Mars is a young impact crater in Hellas Planitia, also known as the Hellas Impact Basin, which is 8,200 metres below the Mars areoid. Google earth file: Hellas Impact Crater.kmz (1kb, kmz)

Swinburne to unveil the Hidden Universe A 3D simulation of the evolution of the Universe is being produced as a giant-screen film in a unique partnership between Swinburne University of Technology and December Media. Swinburne's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS) is using the uni...