K-278 Komsomolets was the only Project 685 Plavnik, nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. The boat sankd ue to fire on 7 April, 1989, and is currently resting on the floor of the Barents Sea, one mile deep, with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear warheads still on board. Read more
The 160 - 360 metre wide asteroid 1995 DW1 will make a close pass (66.6 lunar distances, 0.1711 AU), travelling at 12.85 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th April, 2012 @ 03:49 UT ±00:08. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Title: The origin of the late rebrightening in GRB 080503 Authors: R. Hascoėt, F. Daigne, R. Mochkovitch (UPMC-CNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) GRB 080503, detected by Swift, belongs to the class of bursts whose prompt phase consists of an initial short spike followed by a longer soft tai...
Title: Seyfert's Sextet: where is the gas? Authors: S. Tamburri, G. Trinchieri, A. Wolter, J. Sulentic, A. Durbala, M. Rosado Seyfert's Sextet (a.k.a HCG 79) is one of the most compact and isolated galaxy groups in the local Universe. It shows a prominent diffuse light component that accounts for ~...
Title: Gaseous Material Orbiting the Polluted, Dusty White Dwarf HE1349-2305 Authors: Carl Melis, P. Dufour, J. Farihi, J. Bochanski, Adam J. Burgasser, S. Parsons, B. Gaensicke, D. Koester, Brandon Swift We present new spectroscopic observations of the polluted, dusty, helium-dominated at...
Title: X-Ray Emission from the Supergiant Shell in IC 2574 Authors: Mihoko Yukita, Douglas A. Swartz The M81 group member dwarf galaxy IC 2574 hosts a supergiant shell of current and recent star-formation activity surrounding a 1000 x 500 pc hole in the ambient Hi gas distribution. Chandra X-ray Ob...
The pit-chains of Mars - a possible place for life? The latest images released from ESA's Mars Express reveal a series of 'pit-chains' on the flanks of one of the largest volcanoes in the Solar System. Depending on their origin, they might be tempting targets in the search for microbial life on the Re...
Graph Earth enables marketing and other business professionals to create visual representations of their data, all without the time and costs associated with a full-featured GIS. Create one of a kind deliverables and distribute them to the world, recipients need only install Google Earth to vie...
Title: GRB 100418A: a Long GRB without a Bright Supernova in a High-Metallicity Host Galaxy Authors: Yuu Niino, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Kentaro Aoki, Takashi Hattori, Kiyoto Yabe, Ken'ichi Nomoto We present results of a search for a supernova (SN) component associated with GRB 100418A at the redshif...
Discovery of a new planetary system similar to the Solar System A group of European astronomers has discovered a planetary system with at least five planets, but it could have two more, around a sun-like star, HD 10180. The number of planets and their distances from the star makes this system resemb...
Hubble Solves Mystery on Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, that caused a supernova in a nearby galaxy. The finding yields new observational data for pinpointing o...
Paolo Angelo Nespoli (Milan April 6, 1957) is an Italian astronaut. In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In the December of 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engi...
Though severe earthquakes in the north of France and Britain are rare, the Dover Straits earthquake of 6 April 1580 appears to have been one of the largest in the recorded history of England, Flanders or northern France. It occurred about 6 o'clock in the evening. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 FH Earth MOID = 0.1316 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 352.49687 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.50537137 Peri. 175.91207 -0.97980262 +0.19657502
a 1.5609738 Node 15.57143 -0.18712262 -0.83664175
e 0.2750946 Incl. 7.85256 -0.07051203 -0.51126201
P 1.95 H 23.7 G 0....
