New launch test of Indian nuclear capable missile successful. India carried out on Friday a successful test launch of a Agni-I ballistic missile with nuclear capability. The Agni-I missile has a range of 700 kilometres was launched from Wheeler island, to a target area 180 km in the North-East of Bh...
Title: Threshing in Action - The tidal disruption of a dwarf galaxy by the Hydra I Cluster Authors: Andreas Koch, Andreas Burkert, R. Michael Rich, Michelle L. M. Collins, Christine S. Black, Michael Hilker, Andrew J. Benson We report on the discovery of strong tidal features around a dwarf spheroi...
Orbital elements:
2004 KV18
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 58.58713 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00596069 Peri. 294.57748 -0.96434694 -0.17976645
a 30.1257920 Node 235.62729 +0.22798044 -0.93698737
e 0.1837787 Incl. 13.60940 -0.13438712 -0.29956417
P 165.35 H 8.9 G 0.15 U 3 MPEC 2011 -...
John Dee (13 July 1527-1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo...
Orbital elements: 2009 KK8 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0103 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 356.64136 (2000.0) P Q n 0.22104317 Peri. 192.31251 +0.69345497 +0.71966655 a 2.7090560 Node 121.60367 -0.65754747 +0.65179009 e 0.6408303 Incl. 2.33130 -0.29453613 +0.23926919 P 4.46 H 18.8 G 0.1...
176 prehistoric caves discovered in Thailand
Scientists have recently made significant cave discoveries in the Pang Mapha district of Mae Hong Son (Northern Thailand). A few of the caves will be opened to tourists but most will be preserved for research.
The discoveries are the resul...
Debris from a SL-24 rocket body that was launched on the 21st June, 2010, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, for the TanDEM-X satellite mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 13th July, 2012 @ 07:00 GMT ± 48 hours.SL-24 DEB
1 36607U 10030C 12191.13319521 .014...
EDRS makes room for Hylas-3 When the European Data Relay System launches its second satellite in 2015, it will be taking the Hylas-3 communications package along for the ride thanks to ESA's 'hosted payload' approach. EDRS is being built through a publicprivate partnership between ESA and Astriu...
Title: Dynamics of Starbursting Dwarf Galaxies II: UGC 4483 Authors: Federico Lelli (1), Marc Verheijen (1), Filippo Fraternali (1 and 2), Renzo Sancisi (1 and 3) ((1) University of Groningen, (2) University of Bologna, (3) INAF - Observatory of Bologna) UGC 4483 is a nearby Blue Compact Dwarf (BC...
Title: Revealing the inner circumstellar disk of the T Tauri star S CrA N using the VLTI Authors: J. Vural, A. Kreplin, S. Kraus, G. Weigelt, T. Driebe, M. Benisty, M. Dugué, F. Massi, J.-L. Monin, M. Vannier Aims: We investigate the structure of the circumstellar disk of the T Tauri star S CrA N and test...
Aerographites are ultralow density solids that resemble classical aerogels in many regards (in fact, by some definitions, aerographites are aerogels, simply produced by an unconventional process). At their essence they are frameworks with hollow struts made of graphite deposited through ch...
N.J. man says he was nearly hit by meteorite A New Jersey man says he was nearly hit by a small meteorite as he walked off of a baseball field Sunday night. It happened about 10:24 p.m. at Votee Park on Palisade Ave. in Teaneck, N.J. [url=http://...
NASA 3-D App Gives Public Ability to Experience Robotic Space Travel A NASA-created application that brings some of the agency's robotic spacecraft to life in 3-D now is available for free on the iPhone and iPad. Called Spacecraft 3D, the app uses animation to show how spacecraft can manoeuvre and m...
Title: The Metallicity of the Monoceros Stream Authors: Aaron M. Meisner, Anna Frebel, Mario Juric, Douglas P. Finkbeiner We present low-resolution MMT Hectospec spectroscopy of 594 candidate Monoceros stream member stars. Based on strong colour-magnitude diagram overdensities, we target...
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