Orbital elements: 2010 MW Earth MOID = 0.3827 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 322.39968 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33968498 Peri. 107.24999 +0.94019701 +0.12422757 a 2.0343163 Node 246.58132 -0.20842975 +0.94627608 e 0.3980810 Incl. 20.22104 +0.26941903 +0.29854495 P 2.90 H 19.0 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Orbital elements:
2012 DK61 Earth MOID = 0.0676 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 274.25762 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.70990813 Peri. 301.25141 +0.13257441 +0.99018309
a 1.2445183 Node 336.24630 -0.86789549 +0.09438794
e 0.1674077 Incl. 6.31244 -0.47872899 +0.10309396
P 1.39 H 20.9...
Orbital elements:
2009 EV = 2008 PG1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0305 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 190.33249 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.43372863 Peri. 250.09748 +0.84914607 -0.49161638
a 1.7284520 Node 138.70492 +0.52309011 +0.83332312
e 0.5233368 Incl. 17.00841 -0.07299105 +0.25275662...
Orbital elements:
2012 HB25 Earth MOID = 0.0007 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 338.77697 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25693872 Peri. 333.13740 -0.13743557 +0.99019844
a 2.4504716 Node 288.95457 -0.90398413 -0.13565331
e 0.6040210 Incl. 1.50680 -0.40487549 -0.03324491
P 3.84 H 24.7...
US Raytheon Co missile interceptor test 'a success' US forces have destroyed a target missile in their first successful test of a new Raytheon Co interceptor. The Standard Missile-3 interceptor has been designed to play a central role in an anti-missile shield which is being built in Central Euro...
Title: RX J0942.7-7726AB: an isolated pre-main sequence wide binary Authors: Simon J. Murphy (RSAA/ANU), Warrick A. Lawson (UNSW@ADFA), Michael S. Bessell (RSAA/ANU) We report the discovery of two young M-dwarfs, RX J0942.7-7726 (M1) and 2MASS J09424157-7727130 (M4.5), that were found only...
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The 68 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2005 SQ9 will make a close pass (35.3 lunar distances, 0.0908 AU), travelling at 10.42 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th May, 2012 @ 07:21 UT ± 2 days_09:19. See moreThe Lunar Di...
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Broadcast (1998) Over the past 4 billion years, life has evolved from simple single celled organisms into the tremendous variety of plants and animals that exist today. As scientists learn more about the Earth's history, they are realizi...
ATK's Liberty rocket targets 2015 debut The industrial team that aims to make an astronaut launcher by marrying parts of the US space shuttle and Europe's Ariane rocket says it now has a complete system. Known as Liberty, the launcher would be sold to Nasa to take its crews to the International Space...
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Bethesda Softworks have marked the 20th Anniversary of Wolfenstein 3D, the game that launched the first person shooter genre by releasing a free-to-play browser version of the game. Read more
Robots of the future designed at new Bristol laboratory Electrical engineers, psychologists, surgeons and more work together creating robots of the future at the University of the West of England. There are small robots and big ones; flying robots and swarming robots; even whiskery robots. The...
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In a recent issue of Science Magazine, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) team of international astrophysicists reports the discovery of another new type of very high energy (VHE) gamma ray source.
Gamma-rays are produced in extreme cosmic particle accelerators s...
