Title: Planets Around Low-Mass Stars (PALMS). II. A Low-Mass Companion to the Young M Dwarf GJ 3629 Separated By 0.2" Authors: Brendan P. Bowler, Michael C. Liu, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, Motohide Tamura We present the discovery of a 0.2" companion to the young M dwarf GJ 3629 as part of our hig...
ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Chile's Mars-like Atacama Desert. The recent test of t...
Joseph Diaz Gergonne (19 June 1771 Nancy, France - 4 May 1859 Montpellier, France) was a French mathematician and logician. Gergonne was the first mathematician to employ the word polar. In a series of papers beginning in 1810, he discovered the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noti...
The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT, celebrates its 26th anniversary on 19 June. EUMETSAT Ground System
Jason and the Argonauts is a 1963 Columbia Pictures fantasy feature film starring Todd Armstrong as the titular mythical Greek hero in a story about his quest for the Golden Fleece. Read more Expand (67kb, 560 x 480) Jason and the Argonauts (1963)[video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGh...
Orbital elements:
2012 LF4 Earth MOID = 0.0351 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 258.51997 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.43 H 24.4 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2006 CF PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0214 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 308.48604 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.47 H 19...
Orbital elements:
2012 LK11 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0133 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 333.32388 (2000.0) P Q
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P 4.59 H...
Orbital elements:
2012 LJ11 Earth MOID = 0.1250 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 343.58272 (2000.0) P Q
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P 4.10 H 22....
Orbital elements:
2012 LH11 Earth MOID = 0.1294 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 350.78831 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.65 H 22....
Orbital elements:
2012 MQ Earth MOID = 0.0988 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 319.33501 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.95 H 23.0 G 0....
Orbital elements: 2009 MH1 Earth MOID = 0.3879 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 177.66710 (2000.0) P Q n 0.92346048 Peri. 358.73977 -0.34132703 -0.78097354 a 1.0443767 Node 111.00324 +0.86720972 -0.47629007 e 0.7312918 Incl. 34.07443 +0.36255090 +0.40401498 P 1.07 H 19.1 G 0.15 Fr...
Title: Swift/UVOT Photometry of the Planetary Nebula WeBo 1: Unmasking A Faint Hot Companion Star Authors: Michael H. Siegel, Erik Hoversten, Howard E. Bond, Michele Stark, Alice A. Breeveld We present an analysis of over 150 ks of data on the planetary nebula WeBo 1 (PN G135.6+01.0) obtained with...
Title: Spectral and polarisation study of the double relics in Abell 3376 using the GMRT and the VLA Authors: Ruta Kale (1,2,3,4), K. S. Dwarakanath (4), Joydeep Bagchi (3), Surajit Paul (3) ((1) Dipartimento di Astronomia, University of Bologna, (2) INAF-IRA, Bologna, (3) Inter University Cent...
The Greens are calling on the federal and Western Australian governments to help save ancient Aboriginal rock art on the state's Burrup Peninsula.
Greens leader Bob Brown says the development of gas processing factories are threatening almost a million separate art works.
Senator Brown s...