The 410 - 920 metre wide asteroid 2000 RN77 will make a close pass (76.1 lunar distances, 0.1955 AU), travelling at 9.87 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd August, 2012 @ 17:00 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Scientist Ashoke Sen gets Physics highest honour Indian physicist Ashoke Sen on Thursday received the first Fundamental Physics award for his contribution to the ''String Theory''. The award, started by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, would ensure that Sen receives three million dollars al...
The fractured features of Ladon basin ESA's Mars Express has observed the southern part of a partially buried approx. 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin. The images, near to where Ladon Valles enters this large impact region reveal a variety of features, most notably the double inte...
NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experimen...
Title: CXOM31 J004253.1+411422: The first ultra-luminous X-ray transient in M 31 Authors: A. Kaur, M. Henze, F. Haberl, W. Pietsch, J. Greiner, A. Rau, D.H. Hartmann, G. Sala, M. Hernanz We seek clarification of the nature of X-ray sources detected in M 31. Here we focus on CXOM31 J004253.1+411422...
Damrey was 1,095 miles almost due east of Kadena at 3 p.m. Monday, edging west-southwest at 5 mph. As far north as it is and with a rather unfavourable environment for development, too far north, strong vertical wind shear, JTWC forecasts Damrey to develop only into a severe tropical storm, topping o...
Title: DBI Galileon and Late time acceleration of the universe Authors: Sampurnanand, Anjan A Sen We consider 1+3 dimensional maximally symmetric Minkowski brane embedded in a 1+4 dimensional maximally symmetric Minkowski background. The resulting 1+3 dimensional effective field theory is...
Title: A coherent polarimeter array for the Large Scale Polarisation Explorer balloon experiment Authors: M. Bersanelli, A. Mennella, G. Morgante, M. Zannoni, G. Addamo, A. Baschirotto, P. Battaglia, A. Bał, B. Cappellini, F. Cavaliere, F. Cuttaia, F. Del Torto, S. Donzelli, Z. Farooqui, M. Fr...
The OPS 8180 (RADCAT) satellite that was launched on the 2nd October, 1972, from the Vandenberg AFB is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 2nd August, 2012 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.OPS 8180 (RADCAT)
1 06212U 72076A 12201.23071808 .00456780 90900-4 97528-3 7813
2 06212 098.5528 055...
Title: High-Resolution Spectroscopy during Eclipse of the Young Substellar Eclipsing Binary 2MASS 0535-0546. II. Secondary Spectrum: No Evidence that Spots Cause the Temperature Reversal Authors: Subhanjoy Mohanty, Keivan G. Stassun We present high-resolution optical spectra of the youn...
Marine scientists have now figured out a way to "see through" the ocean's surface and detect what's below, with the help of satellites in space.
Using sensor data from several U.S. and European satellites, researchers from the University of Delaware, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the...
The 1922 Swatow Typhoon was a devastating tropical cyclone that caused thousands of deaths in the Chinese city of Swatow (now Shantou) in August 1922. These totals make it one of the deadliest known typhoons in history. Read more
Kerbal Space Program is a multi-genre game where the player creates his own space program. In KSP, you must build a space-worthy craft, capable of flying its crew out into space, without killing them. At your disposal is a collection of parts, which must be assembled to create a functional ship. Each...
