Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He has also appeared in many Hollywood productions playing parts such as Dr. Guggenheim in Rushmore, William Stryker in...
Kip Thorne - The warped side of the universe Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of...
Zimbabwe Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 12 December 1979. Read more
Janet Horne (died 1727) was a Scottish alleged witch, the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Great Britain. Janet Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Scotland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Read more
Title: John Ellard Gore: of immensity and minuteness Authors: Jeremy Shears John Ellard Gore FRAS, MRIA (1845-1910) was an Irish amateur astronomer and prolific author of popular astronomy books. His main observational interest was variable stars, of which he discovered several, and he served...
Six New Isotopes of the Superheavy Elements Discovered A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114. Starting with the creation of a new isotope of the yet-to...
Element 116, livermorium, was first made in Dubna, Russia in July 2000. The work was a collaboration between science teams at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California led by Yuri Oganessian and Ken Moody. [url=http://www.che...
Star Analyser is a blazed diffraction grating in a 1,25" filter thread. You can screw it to a eyepiece or to a webcam, small astronomy CCD camera. It will split star light into a spectrum from blue to red like a prism (or rainbow). Such spectrum can tell many things about a star or other target - like...
Title: MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion and detection of blended light Authors: E. Bachelet, I.-G. Shin, C. Han, P. Fouqué, A. Gould, J. W. Menzies, J.-P. Beaulieu, D. P. Bennett, I. A. Bond, Subo Dong, D. Heyrovský, J...
Mercury: at magnitude -0.1, starts the month in the constellation of Pisces. Mercury in superior conjunction on the 27th. Mercury is at Perihelion on the 29th May, 2012. (On May 1st, ) Venus: is at magnitude -4.5. The planet is in constellation Taurus at the start of the month. It is best se...
Explore the high-energy Universe - competition results Students from across Europe have been selected as the winners of the ESA's 'Explore the high-energy Universe' competition. Secondary school students were invited to choose from four projects relating to ESA's Integral gamma-ray observ...
Orbital elements:
2012 KL18 Earth MOID = 0.3930 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 353.55315 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29549797 Peri. 284.44528 -0.77532058 +0.54716578
a 2.2323711 Node 289.66135 -0.36817552 -0.79735478
e 0.4436772 Incl. 19.56917 -0.51315182 -0.25462713
P 3.34 H 18....
Title: Giant Planets Authors: Tristan Guillot (CASSIOPEE), Daniel Gautier (LESIA) We review the interior structure and evolution of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and extrasolar giant planets with particular emphasis on constraining their global composition. [url=http://arxiv.or...
Jane Luu (a.k.a. Jane X. Luu) is a Vietnamese American astronomer. As a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she worked with David C. Jewitt to discover the Kuiper Belt. In 1992, after five years of observation, they found the f...
David C. Jewitt is a professor of astronomy formerly at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, now at UCLA. He was born in 1958 in England, and is a 1979 graduate of the University of London. Jewitt received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in 1980 a...
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