On April 1, 1976, Patrick Moore stated to radio listeners that an astronomical event would take place at 9:47 a.m. that day, a conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto, which was expected to have an effect observable everywhere. As Pluto passed behind Jupiter, it would briefly cause a powerful combination...
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The 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake was an earthquake near the Aleutian Islands on April 1, 1946. It was followed by a Pacific-wide tsunami. The earthquake was a magnitude 7.8, with its epicenter at 52.8°N, 163.5°W, and focal depth of 25 km. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 FJ58 Earth MOID = 0.0590 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 30.22340 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.62228254 Peri. 282.06937 -0.31805240 -0.94686004
a 1.3587648 Node 187.05287 +0.94805911 -0.31791584
e 0.3810778 Incl. 22.98434 -0.00515742 -0.04884240
P 1.58 H 24.9...
2004 LV31
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 279.35164 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00338160 Peri. 273.03668 +0.96305993 -0.24407354
a 43.9596582 Node 101.11112 +0.26911893 +0.88727335
e 0.1287924 Incl. 6.65805 -0.00951673 +0.39137464
P 291 H 8.8 G 0.15 U 3
2004 LW31
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 T...
The man who provided the scientific detail behind Danny Boyle's sci-fi hit movie Sunshine is to give a talk on an experiment to recreate conditions a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Dr Brian Cox, who is based at the University of Manchester, will present a talk about the Large Hadron Collider...
: Bad Science on Denver's NBC 9 News Was the mystery light in the sky over Denver's Highland Ranch a UFO, weather balloon, helicopter, meteorite, or, a satellite; the multiple 'guesses' thrown out by Denver's NBC 9 news anchors who aired videotape of a mystery light over Denver Wednesday night. [url...
Sunspot, 11448, 11445, 11438, 11444 and 11447 (with 11429 about to re-emerge) captured with a Helios 102mm shortfocus refractor and Vesta pro webcam, solar filter, baader contrast filter. A light hearted look at the Sun. Listen out for....
Orbital elements:
2012 FE58 Earth MOID = 0.1455 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 352.94305 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30002697 Peri. 337.78063 -0.93187186 +0.35076911
a 2.2098486 Node 223.11118 -0.30913150 -0.90134185
e 0.4832352 Incl. 7.78780 -0.18987511 -0.25405493
P 3.29 H 20.9...
Title: Daemons: Detection at Pulkovo, Gran Sasso, and Soudan Authors: E.M. Drobyshevski, M.E. Drobyshevski, S.A. Ponyaev, I.S. Guseva During a week of the March maximum in 2011, two oppositely installed direction-sensitive TEU-167d Dark Electron Multipliers (DEMs) recorded a flux of daemon...
Title: HESS J1507-622: an unique unidentified source off the Galactic Plane Authors: O. Tibolla, W. Domainko, W. Hofmann, O. de Jager, S. Kaufmann, N. Komin, K. Kosack, for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration Galactic very high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) gamma ray sources in the inner Galaxy H.E.S.S. surv...
