Chemists and biologists from the University of Bristol have finally cracked one of the longest standing chemical mysteries. In a paper published today in PNAS, the team demonstrate exactly how an unusual class of compounds known as tropolones are synthesised in fungi. [url=http://www.bris.ac...
Title: A rotating molecular jet from a Perseus protostar Authors: Gerardo Pech, Luis A. Zapata, Laurent Loinard, Luis F. Rodriguez We present ^{12}CO(2-1) line and 1.4 mm continuum archival observations, made with the Submillimeter Array, of the outflow HH 797 located in the IC 348 cluster in Per...
DPRK to launch satellite next month The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is to launch in mid-April a working satellite, Kwangmyongsong-3 (Bright Star 3), manufactured by itself with indigenous technology to mark the 100th birth anniversary of President Kim Il-sung, the official ne...
Title: A population of isolated hard X-ray sources near the supernova remnant Kes 69 Authors: F. Bocchino, A. M. Bykov, Y. Chen, A. M. Krassilchtchikov, K. P. Levenfish, M. Miceli, G. G. Pavlov, Yu. A. Uvarov, X. Zhou Recent X-ray observations of the supernova remnant IC443 interacting with molecu...
Title: Clustering analysis of high-redshift Luminous Red Galaxies in Stripe 82 Authors: Nikolaos Nikoloudakis (1), Tom Shanks (1), Utane Sawangwit (1,2) ((1) University of Durham,(2) National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand) We present a clustering analysis of Luminous Red Gal...
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
A $10-million expansion to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) research facilities involving Queen's and five other Canadian universities is officially open for business.
The SNOLAB Surface Research Centre will provide a state-of-the-art wo...
Orbital elements:
2012 GW11 Earth MOID = 0.0078 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 318.67224 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.48111396 Peri. 83.89207 +0.33222554 +0.93985860
a 1.6130113 Node 205.95031 -0.92111732 +0.30520652
e 0.5689681 Incl. 10.44373 -0.20290165 +0.15334533
P 2.05 H 26.4...
The Aurora UFO Incident is a UFO incident that reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897 in Aurora, Texas, a small town in the northwest corner of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The incident (similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later) reportedly resulted in a fatality from the cra...
Helios-A and Helios-B (also known as Helios 1 and Helios 2), were a pair of probes launched into heliocentric orbit for the purpose of studying solar processes. A joint venture of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and NASA, the probes were launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Centre a...
Giovanni Battista Riccioli (17 April 1598 - 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest. He was a Jesuit who entered the order in 1614. He was also the first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body. Read more
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (born November 22, 1925 in Newark, Ohio) was the first woman to fly solo around the world. The trip ended April 17, 1964 and took 29 days, 21 stopovers and almost 22,860 miles. Read more
Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. Launched on April 17, 1967, Surveyor 3 landed on April 20, 1967 at the Mare Cognitum portion of the Oceanus Procellarum (S3º 01' 41.43" W23º 27' 29.55") . It transmitted a tota...
Orbital elements:
2008 UG7 Earth MOID = 0.1643 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 226.62823 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.72464549 Peri. 120.54710 +0.75685194 +0.57506035
a 1.2275871 Node 208.36776 -0.52851284 +0.81807691
e 0.0947346 Incl. 40.82457 +0.38451179 -0.00746764
P 1.36 H 21.2...
Orbital elements:
2008 HW1 Earth MOID = 0.1054 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 324.10927 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.23753861 Peri. 249.14266 +0.93800874 -0.31575896
a 2.5821407 Node 128.97919 +0.34453041 +0.89451212
e 0.9608255 Incl. 10.59663 -0.03792618 +0.31645591
P 4.15 H 17.4...
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