Orbital elements:
2011 YJ28 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0212 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 304.65635 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.90385407 Peri. 306.07337 -0.47265473 +0.77024665
a 1.0594257 Node 290.13623 -0.58779045 -0.63753870
e 0.0938665 Incl. 27.13123 -0.65658197 +0.01626368
P 1.09...
Melas Dorsa reveals a complex geological history on Mars ESA's Mars Express has imaged an area to the south of the famed Valles Marineris canyon on the Red Planet, showing a wide range of tectonic and impact features. On 17 April, the orbiter pointed its high-resolution stereo camera at the Melas Dor...
Title: Four ultra-short period eclipsing M-dwarf binaries in the WFCAM Transit Survey Authors: S.V. Nefs, J.L. Birkby, I.A.G. Snellen, S.T. Hodgkin, D.J. Pinfield, B. Sipocz, G. Kovacs, D. Mislis, R.P. Saglia, J. Koppenhofer, P.Cruz, D. Barrado, E.L. Martin, N.Goulding, H. Stoev, J. Zendeja...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on Mars. Moanda for a 38.88-km-wide Martian crater located at -35.96°S, 320.05°E. The feature was named in honour of a town in Gabon..
Title: The clusters Abell~222 and Abell~223: a multi-wavelength view Authors: F. Durret, T. F. Laganá, C. Adami, E. Bertin The Abell 222 and 223 clusters are located at an average redshift z ~ 0.21 and are separated by 0.26 deg. Signatures of mergers have been previously found in these clusters, bot...
Saturn IB AS-203 Launch Aerial View 1966 NASA colour 3min The launch of Saturn 1B AS-203 on July 5, 1966, from Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Centre Launch Complex 37B. AS-203 (or SA-203) was an unmanned flight of the Saturn IB rocket on July 5...
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Title: Two 'b's in the Beehive: The Discovery of the First Hot Jupiters in an Open Cluster Authors: S. N. Quinn (1), R. J. White (1), D. W. Latham (2), L. A. Buchhave (3 and 4), J. R. Cantrell (1), S. E. Dahm (5), G. Fürész (2), A. H. Szentgyorgyi (2), J. C. Geary (2), G. Torres (2), A. Bieryla (2), P. Berlind (...
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Title: A Hot Uranus Orbiting the Super Metal-rich Star HD77338 and the Metallicity - Mass Connection Authors: James S. Jenkins, Hugh R.A. Jones, Mikko Tuomi, Felipe Murgas, Sergio Hoyer, Matias I. Jones, John R. Barnes, Yakiv V. Pavlenko, Oleksiy Ivanyuk, Patricio Rojo, Andres Jordan, Avril C. D...
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Gerardus (Gerard) 't Hooft (born July 5, 1946, Den Helder, Netherlands) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of...
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Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (5 July 1805 - 30 April 1865) achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality. He was an able surveyor and hydrographer and served as Governor...
Philosophić Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Latin for "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", often called the Principia, is a work in three books by Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687. Read more
