'Sonic boom' caused tremors felt across the north of Scotland 23 May 2012 A sonic boom has been blamed for tremors that were felt by residents across the north of Scotland. 23 May 2012 The strange vibrations were phoned into police late on Tuesday night by people in Cults, Inverbervie, Aberdeen, Sto...
CU-Boulder's plans for $46M aerospace building stalled Construction plans for a $46 million building -- where students and scientists would research space exploration and clean energy production -- have been sitting idle for the past three years, awaiting state funding. It could be several ye...
Luminous objects and meteor bursts appeared over north Lebanon, Marjaayoun, the Bekaa and the Syrian-Turkish border Luminous objects and meteor bursts appeared over north Lebanon, Marjaayoun, the Bekaa and the Syrian-Turkish border on Thursday evening. [url=http://www.lbcgroup.tv/new...
Title: The PTF Orion Project: a Possible Planet Transiting a T-Tauri Star Authors: Julian C. van Eyken, David R. Ciardi, Kaspar von Braun, Stephen R. Kane, Peter Plavchan, Chad F. Bender, Timothy M. Brown, Justin Crepp, Benjamin J. Fulton, Andrew W. Howard, Steve B. Howell, Suvrath Mahadevan, Geo...
Title: Imaging polarimetry of the Bok globule CB56 Authors: D. Paul, H. S. Das, A. K. Sen The measurement of polarisation of the background stars in the region of Bok globules is important to study the magnetic field geometry and dust grain characteristics in the globule. These parameters are impor...
Asteroid 9766 Bradbury makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.601 AU) on the 10th June, 2012. Asteroid 9766 Bradbury (1992 DZ2) was discovered on the 24th February, 1992 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. The asteroid was named in honour of Ray Douglas Bradbury the critically acclaimed science fictio...
Debris from a FALCON 9 rocket body that was launched on the 22nd May, 2012, from Cape Canaveral, for the Dragon C-2 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 9th June, 2012 @ 20:00 GMT ± 48 hours.FALCON 9 RB
1 38351U 12027D 12158.51232306 .02007670 31366-2 27341-2 400
2 38351...
Orbital elements:
2012 GX11 Earth MOID = 0.1547 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 331.66839 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31197076 Peri. 187.96199 -0.12579624 +0.97923689
a 2.1530798 Node 74.91666 -0.90088179 -0.04565647
e 0.4571045 Incl. 9.47625 -0.41543628 -0.19751100
P 3.16 H 21.0 G...
Title: X-ray emission from high-redshift miniquasars: self-regulating the population of massive black holes through global warming Authors: Takamitsu Tanaka (MPA), Rosalba Perna (JILA/Colorado), Zoltán Haiman (Columbia University) Observations of high-redshift quasars at z>6 impl...
Title: 16 New Transiting Planet Candidates from Kepler Q1-Q6 Data Authors: Xu Huang (1), Gáspár A. Bakos (1,2), Joel D. Hartman (1) ((1) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, (2) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow) We have performed an extensive search for planet candidates...
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (9 June 1861 - 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the sc...
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 - 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at. He used the calculations of Urbain L...
Title: HATS-1b: The First Transiting Planet Discovered by the HATSouth Survey Authors: K. Penev (1,2), G. A. Bakos (1,2), D. Bayliss (3), A. Jordán (4), M. Mohler (5), G. Zhou (3), V. Suc (4), M. Rabus (4), J. D. Hartman (1,2), L. Mancini (5), B. Béky (2), Z. Csubry (1,2), L. Buchhave (6), T. Henning (5)...
Some of Boulder's biggest brains will be on the Pearl Street Mall this weekend -- shining shoes. Local gurus of the cosmos will join their astro-brethren across the country on Saturday for the "Planetary Car Wash & Bake Sale," an event organized by Alan Stern, associate vice preside...
James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films. Read moreSpoiler[s...
