Orbital elements:
2012 HW1 Earth MOID = 0.3944 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 234.62573 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.90599857 Peri. 163.81828 +0.93460937 -0.04534923
a 1.0577533 Node 207.75531 +0.17865436 +0.91749437
e 0.6613685 Incl. 49.24577 +0.30755155 -0.39515507
P 1.09 H 19.8...
Students' Balloon to Observe Draconid Meteor Shower Students from a remote area in Central California close to the Nevada border may get a rare to opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Draconid meteor shower Saturday. A helium balloon experiment by a group of high school and middle school students a...
Dr. Tessy Thomas (born in 1964) is the Key Scientist for Agni-V in Defence Research and Development Organisation, Hyderabad. She is the first woman scientist to head a missile project in India. Read more
Title: CPD-20 1123 (Albus 1) is a bright He-B Subdwarf Authors: Stephane Vennes, Adela Kawka, J. Allyn Smith Date: August 2007 Based on photometric and astrometric data it has been proposed that Albus 1 (also known as CPD-20 1123) might be a hot white dwarf similar to G191-B2B or, alternatively, a...
Title: SSOS: A Moving Object Image Search Tool for Asteroid Precovery at the CADC Authors: Stephen D. J. Gwyn, Norman Hill, J. J. Kavelaars While regular archive searches can find images at a fixed location, they cannot find images of moving targets such as asteroids. The Solar System Object Search...
Researchers at the Boston University Centre for Remote Sensing used recently acquired topographic data from satellites to reveal a now dry, ancient mega-lake in the Darfur province of northwestern Sudan. Drs. Eman Ghoneim and Farouk El-Baz made the finding while investigating Landsat imag...
Orbital elements:
2012 HJ1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0333 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 302.16242 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.33949363 Peri. 290.93919 +0.81417144 +0.44914538
a 2.0350807 Node 44.72846 -0.09394143 +0.72727761
e 0.6156994 Incl. 31.52398 -0.57297458 +0.51897563
P 2.90 H 1...
Donald Roy Pettit (born April 20, 1955) is an American chemical engineer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica. Read more STS-126: Shuttle Endeavour Launches to the ISS [video=ht...
Energy giant BP Plc indicated some progress on Monday toward capping the underwater well that ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico almost two weeks ago, pushing a giant oil slick toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The British company has been working to plug a leak nearly a mile under the surface of the ocean, unde...
The Secchi disk, created in 1865 by Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ, is a circular disk used to measure water transparency in oceans and lakes. The disc is mounted on a pole or line, and lowered slowly down in the water. The depth at which the pattern on the disk is no longer visible is taken as a measure of the tran...
Vädersolstavlan (Swedish for "The Sun Dog Painting") is an oil-on-panel painting depicting a halo display, an atmospheric optical phenomenon, observed over Stockholm on April 20, 1535. It is named after the sun dogs (Swedish: Vädersol, "Weather sun") appearing on the up...
Sapienza University of Rome was founded as La Sapienza in 1303 with the bull In supremae praeminentia dignitatis issued on 20 April 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than the universities of Bologna and Padua Read more
The 210 - 470 metre wide asteroid 2010 VX139 will make a close pass (76.6 lunar distances, 0.1968 AU), travelling at 13.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th May, 2011 @ 04:33 UT ±00:11. See moreThe Lunar Dis...
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