Ilan Ramon (June 20, 1954 - February 1, 2003) was a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, where he and six other crew members were killed in the re-entry accident. Read mo...
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the Carajas mining complex is a series of vast man-made chasms, extracting iron ore around the clock. The owners, the Brazilian company Vale, say they are operating the mine in a sustainable way and will restore the landscape and trees. [url=http://www.bbc.c...
Iron-Age brewing evidence found in southeastern France Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that the occupants of southeastern France were brewing beer during the Iron Age, some 2,500 years ago. A paper in Human Ecology outlines the discovery of barley grains that had been sprouted in a proce...
Title: Three ways to solve the orbit of KIC11558725: a 10 day beaming sdB+WD binary with a pulsating subdwarf Authors: J. H. Telting, R. H. Ostensen, A. S. Baran, S. Bloemen, M. D. Reed, R. Oreiro, L. Farris, T. A. Ottosen, C. Aerts, S. D. Kawaler, U. Heber, S. Prins, E. M. Green, B. Kalomeni, S. J. O'Tool...
Title: Constraining tidal dissipation in F-type main-sequence stars: the case of CoRoT-11 Authors: A. F. Lanza, C. Damiani, D. Gandolfi Tidal dissipation in late-type stars is presently poorly understood and the study of planetary systems hosting hot Jupiters can provide new observational co...
Waves and Small Particles in Ring A:
Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. Cassini conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
Three simultaneous r...
June 19-21, 2012 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Battelle Auditorium 902 Battelle Blvd. Richland, WA. 99352 The calendar year 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the first publication on an underground experimental search for cold dark matter (S.P. Ahlen et al. 1987. Physics Letters B 195...
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (June 19, 1933 - June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on theSoyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space Observatory, he became...
Title: Dynamical Measurements of the Young Upper Scorpius Triple NTTS 155808-2219 Authors: G. N. Mace (UC Los Angeles), L. Prato (Lowell Observatory), G. Torres (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics), L. H. Wasserman (Lowell Observatory), R. D. Mathieu (University of Wisconsin), I....
Orbital elements:
2012 MP Earth MOID = 0.2011 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 285.26308 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.53 H 20.7 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 LD13 Earth MOID = 0.0692 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 352.63521 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.74 H 22.1 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 LC13 Earth MOID = 0.2376 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 317.15137 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.11 H 21.9 G...
Orbital elements:
2005 YN3 Earth MOID = 0.3988 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 273.57411 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.36 H 19.4 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 LG11 Earth MOID = 0.2001 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 336.95325 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.78 H 19....
Orbital elements:
2012 LF11 Earth MOID = 0.1116 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 343.14063 (2000.0) P Q
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P 0.85 H 20....
