Organic tools found in Stone Age camp Stone Age people didn't only use tools made out of rock - they also used tools made from wood and antlers, according to a new discovery in Danish waters. The Stone Age settlement has been hidden under water and a thick layer of sand over millennia. But over the past f...
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Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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The Variable star YZ Cancri is in outburst. Date: 2011 01 22 Magnitude: 10.5 - 16.3 V Period: ? Satellite period: 0.0868 days Type: UGSU Position(2000): RA=08 10 56.65, Dec=+28°08'33.2"
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Brian May and academics to put Government under pressure to improve animal welfare at University of Leicester event Seminar will discuss Wildlife Conservation, Animal Welfare and Public Policy on Thursday 19 April Queen guitarist and animal welfare activist Brian May will introduce a nationa...
Shuttle Discovery to make Washington swoop One of Nasa's iconic space shuttles is to make a dramatic flypast over the centre of the US capital as it heads to its final resting place in a museum. Discovery is scheduled to fly over the National Mall in Washington DC at about 10:00 EST (14:00 GMT). [url=h...
Title: A Structural Analysis of Star-Forming Region AFGL 490 Authors: L. C. Masiunas, R. A. Gutermuth, J. L. Pipher, S. T. Megeath, P. C. Myers, L. E. Allen, H. M. Kirk, G. G. Fazio We present Spitzer IRAC and MIPS observations of the star-forming region containing intermediate-mass young stellar o...
Sunspot 11455 captured with a 60mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. solar filter + Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. Sunspot 11459 captured with a 60mm refractor and Vesta pr...
Title: Infrared Variability of the Gliese 569B System Authors: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Louis J. Scuderi Gliese 569B is a multiple brown dwarf system whose exact nature has been the subject of several investigations over the past few years. Interpretation has partially relied on infra-red photome...
Title: The long period eccentric orbit of the particle accelerator HD167971 revealed by long baseline interferometry Authors: M. De Becker, H. Sana, O. Absil, J.-B. Le Bouquin, R. Blomme Using optical long baseline interferometry, we resolved for the first time the two wide components of HD1679...
Renowned Chinese physicist Mu Guoguang dies at 81 Renowned Chinese physicist and former president of the prestigious Nankai University, Mu Guoguang, passed away at the age of 81, the university announced Friday. Mu died of unspecified causes in Tianjin on Thursday, according to an obituary pos...
Orbital elements:
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Title: Investigating operation of the Internet in orbit: Five years of collaboration around CLEO Authors: Lloyd Wood, Will Ivancic, Wes Eddy, Dave Stewart, James Northam, Chris Jackson The Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) was launched into space as an experimental secondary payload onboa...
Title: Complex asteroseismology of the Slowly Pulsating B-type star HD74560 Authors: Przemysaw Walczak, Wojciech Szewczuk, Jadwiga Daszyska-Daszkiewicz We present the results of complex seismic modelling of the Slowly Pulsating B-type star HD74560. The star pulsates in five frequencies d...