Johann Heinrich von Mädler (May 29, 1794 - March 14, 1874) was a German astronomer. In 1829 Wilhelm Beer, a wealthy banker, decided to set up a private observatory with a 95 mm refractor telescope made by Joseph von Fraunhofer, and Mädler worked there. In 1830 they began producing drawings of Mars whi...
May 29 - June 1, 2012 International Solvay Institutes, Brussels This year's Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics workshop will take place at the International Solvay Institutes in Brussels. The purpose of this informal workshop is to discuss and exchange ideas on recent developments...
Title: Magnetic activity and differential rotation in the young Sun-like stars KIC 7985370 and KIC 7765135 Authors: H.-E. Fröhlich, A. Frasca, G. Catanzaro, A. Bonanno, E. Corsaro, J. Molenda-akowicz, A. Klutsch, D. Montes We present a detailed study of the two Sun-like stars KIC 7985370 and KIC...
Minor planet named after well-known Chinese scientist A minor planet that was discovered by Chinese astronomers, has been named after a well-known late Chinese scientist and educator Yan Jici, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced today. [url=http://www.business-standard.com/...
Negative photo of the 1919 solar eclipseRelativity and the 1919 eclipseProbably the most important eclipse in the history of science occurred on 29 May 1919. Just six months after the end of World War I, British astronomers used it to test a new idea that came from Germany in 1915. The proposition...
Tropical Storm Beryl Makes Landfall in Florida Tropical Storm Beryl made landfall near Jacksonville, Fla. shortly after midnight on Monday with top winds of 70 miles an hour. On land, the highest wind gusts were 73 mph in Mayport Fla. just east of Jacksonville. [url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/t...
STS-96 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and the first shuttle flight to dock with the International Space Station on 29 May 1999 at 04:23 UTC. Read more[video=http://...
Pythagoras' Trousers is a radio show from the South Wales Networks of the Institution of Engineering & Technology and Radio Cardiff. Each week, presenter Rhys Phillips takes a look at stories of interest from the worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, bringing these fi...
Orbital elements:
2012 KZ41 Earth MOID = 0.0095 AU
Epoch 2012 May 13.0 TT = JDT 2456060.5 MPC
M 345.33534 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.28404132 Peri. 201.43983 +0.41752023 +0.90826384
a 2.2920022 Node 93.24676 -0.82969201 +0.39321762
e 0.5994534 Incl. 1.55461 -0.37052400 +0.14295702
P 3.47 H 24.9 G 0...
Title: Unusually Wide Binaries: Are They Wide or Unusual? Authors: Adam L. Kraus, Lynne A. Hillenbrand (Caltech) We describe an astrometric and spectroscopic campaign to confirm the youth and association of a complete sample of candidate wide companions in Taurus and Upper Sco. Our survey found...
A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 00:44:43 (UTC) on Friday, August 25, 2006, in the Salta region, WNW of Salta, Argentina, at a depth of 156.8 km.
Location 24.323°S, 66.887°W
From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale The conference will be the fifteenth one in a series of meetings on physics beyond the Standard Model, organised jointly by several European groups: Bonn, CERN, Ecole Polytechnique, ICTP, Madrid, Oxford, Padua, Pisa, SISSA and Warsaw. Read more