Title: Core-Accretion Model Predicts Few Jovian-Mass Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs Authors: Gregory Laughlin, Peter Bodenheimer, Fred C. Adams 15 Jul 2004 The favoured theoretical explanation for giant planet formation -- in both our solar system and others -- is the core accretion model (altho...
Willem de Sitter (6 May 1872 - 20 November 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer. De Sitter made major contributions to the field of physical cosmology. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they argued that there might be large amounts of matter which do no...
Robert Henry Dicke (May 6, 1916 - March 4, 1997) was an American physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. Read more
André Weil (6 May 1906 - 6 August 1998) was an influential mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition. Read more
On Sunday, May 6, Triratna Buddhist Community Highlands will be hosting a Buddha Day Festival at Eden Court, which will give people a opportunity to discover how the teachings of Buddhism can help enrich modern life. Read more
Orbital elements: 2009 VA26 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0105 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 298.72557 (2000.0) P Q n 0.56322543 Peri. 310.27194 -0.88549350 -0.08042435 a 1.4521603 Node 230.67193 +0.07847039 -0.99664379 e 0.3636933 Incl. 36.27233 -0.45797780 -0.01526665 P 1.75 H 20.9 G 0....
Vital areas of New Zealand's seafloor to be revealed New Zealand's largest research vessel Tangaroa sets off today to map, in high resolution detail, the southern Hikurangi Margin - a vital area of seabed off the east coast of New Zealand. The voyage is part of the Ocean Survey 20/20 project, a 15-ye...
The European Space Agency and Astrium today signed a 195 million contract to provide the first Sentinel-2 earth observation satellite, devoted to monitoring the land environment, as part of the European GMES programme. As prime contractor, Astrium is responsible for the design, development an...
Baader Contrast Booster Filter The Baader Contrast Booster Filter takes contrast enhancement and skyglow reduction to the optimum level possible. Not only does the Baader Contrast filter deliver a significant enhancement of planetary and lunar contrasts, but it is designed to completely elim...
Title: A unifying picture of helical and azimuthal MRI, and the universal significance of the Liu limit Authors: Oleg N. Kirillov, Frank Stefani, Yasuhide Fukumoto The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a key role for cosmic structure formation by triggering turbulence in the rotating...
Title: A new cosmological distance measure using AGN Authors: D. Watson (1), K. D. Denney (1), M. Vestergaard (1), T. M. Davis (2) ((1) Dark Cosmology Centre, U. Copenhagen, (2) U. Queensland) Accurate distances to celestial objects are key to establishing the age and energy density of the Univers...
The first instrument-carrying Aerobee rocket was the A-5, launched on March 5, 1948 from White Sands, carrying instruments for cosmic radiation research, reaching an altitude of 117.5 km. Read more
Mercury-Redstone 3 was a U.S. Mercury program manned space mission launched on May 5, 1961 using a Redstone rocket, from Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Read more
The Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first transmitted in 1973, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. Intended as a series of "personal view" documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark's 1969 series Civilisa...
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