Title: GRB 090227B: the missing link between the genuine short and disguised short GRBs Authors: Marco Muccino, Remo Ruffini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Luca Izzo, Ana Virginia Penacchioni The observational progress obtained by Fermi-GBM and Konus-Wind satellites is used to identify the new class...
Title: Searching for Standard Clocks in the Primordial Universe Authors: Xingang Chen, Christophe Ringeval Classically oscillating massive fields can be used as "standard clocks" in the primordial universe. They generate features in primordial density perturbations that direc...
The 200 - 450 metre wide asteroid 2001 LB will make a close pass (28.4 lunar distances, 0.0729 AU), travelling at 11.56 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th June, 2012 @ 17:00 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance...
Dragon C2, also known as COTS Demo Flight 2, is the second planned flight of the unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft which is planned to orbit the Earth in 2011, and the third flight of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The flight is the second flight in the COTS ("Commercial Orbital Transportation Ser...
The 71 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2006 SG7 will make a close pass (33.4 lunar distances, 0.0857 AU), travelling at 16.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th June, 2012 @ 11:15 UT ±18:32. See moreThe Lunar Distanc...
Orbital elements: 2009 LE Earth MOID = 0.0176 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 342.60976 (2000.0) P Q n 0.66000179 Peri. 214.84755 +0.40284255 +0.84179455 a 1.3064896 Node 81.35024 -0.73523761 +0.53142832 e 0.2356733 Incl. 21.31151 -0.54510874 -0.09468831 P 1.49 H 23.7 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope The world's largest telescope dedicated solely to infrared astronomy, UKIRT is sited in Hawaii near the summit of Mauna Kea at an altitude of 4194m above sea level. It is owned by the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council and operated, along w...
Title: HS 1700+6416: the first high redshift non lensed NAL-QSO showing variable high velocity outflows Authors: G. Lanzuisi, M. Giustini, M. Cappi, M. Dadina, G. Malaguti, C. Vignali, G. Chartas We present a detailed analysis of the X-ray emission of HS 1700+6416, a high redshift (z=2.7348), lu...
The man who killed Pluto is coming to town to tell us how he did it. Mike Brown is the CalTech astronomer who discovered objects in the vicinity of Pluto that led to its demotion from "ninth planet" to "dwarf" in August 2006. He understands that some people are upset about that. [u...
Orbital elements:
2012 JW11 Earth MOID = 0.1304 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 337.53184 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.27392885 Peri. 224.64917 -0.26804967 +0.96311635
a 2.3480691 Node 29.82597 -0.87012173 -0.23151344
e 0.5144257 Incl. 2.71803 -0.41356685 -0.13714383
P 3.60 H 21.8 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 KE25 Earth MOID = 0.1808 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 0.23519 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.44317018 Peri. 176.78014 -0.05847551 -0.97829379
a 1.7038147 Node 276.50740 +0.91138362 +0.02895027
e 0.7682515 Incl. 11.54224 +0.40738252 -0.20519051
P 2.22 H 18.7 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 KU42 Earth MOID = 0.0824 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 312.11769 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.33506359 Peri. 209.80282 +0.94915799 +0.21947268
a 2.0529792 Node 135.60566 -0.18478100 +0.96882432
e 0.4851172 Incl. 18.81937 -0.25486290 +0.11493991
P 2.94 H 17....
Orbital elements:
2012 KA42 Earth MOID = 0.0143 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 337.85822 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.66528351 Peri. 314.86591 -0.93016711 +0.35410638
a 1.2995656 Node 246.09571 -0.29981279 -0.88504022
e 0.2493826 Incl. 6.08697 -0.21189961 -0.30217956
P 1.48 H 27.3...
Orbital elements:
2012 KY41 Earth MOID = 0.1041 AU
Epoch 2012 May 13.0 TT = JDT 2456060.5 MPC
M 253.58125 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.35015346 Peri. 147.75304 +0.95838536 -0.10311603
a 1.9935652 Node 220.92736 +0.08413727 +0.99309332
e 0.4723864 Incl. 23.97608 +0.27279741 +0.05597099
P 2.81 H 17.9...
Orbital elements:
2012 KX41 Earth MOID = 0.0340 AU
Epoch 2012 May 13.0 TT = JDT 2456060.5 MPC
M 344.78264 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.27237696 Peri. 251.75850 +0.50613717 +0.86048680
a 2.3569795 Node 48.79074 -0.75918013 +0.47653685
e 0.6187744 Incl. 4.43720 -0.40923183 +0.18020847
P 3.62 H 24.8 G 0...