"Two Ways to Think About Nothing," Robert Krulwich Today it sits a total blank. You can stare at it forever and not know what it had been (or perhaps, in some ghostly way, still is) because the painting isn't telling and de Kooning a...
Title: The spectrum of the recycled PSR J0437-4715 and its white dwarf companion Authors: M. Durant (UFlorida), O. Kargaltsev, G. G. Pavlov, P. M. Kowalski, B. Posselt, M. H. van Kerkwijk, D. L. Kaplan We present extensive spectral and photometric observations of the recycled pulsar/white-dwar...
Title: IRAS 11472-0800: an extremely depleted pulsating binary post-AGB star Authors: Hans Van Winckel, Bruce J. Hrivnak, Nadya Gorlova, clio Gielen, Wenxian Lu We focus here on one particular and poorly studied object, IRAS11472-0800. It is a highly evolved post-Asymptotic Giant Branch (pos...
Orbital elements:
2012 EJ8 Earth MOID = 0.0553 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 29.58964 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.87 H 24.0 G 0.15...
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932), known as Walt Cunningham, is a retired American astronaut. In 1968, he was the Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), and has also been a fighter pilot, physicist, entr...
Georg Simon Ohm (16 March 1789 - 6 July 1854) was a German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm began his research with the recently invented electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm determined that there is a direct proportiona...
Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment, and may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery...
Orbital elements:
2012 EL8 Earth MOID = 0.0187 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 7.13905 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.30 H 28.3 G 0....
Title: Discovery of a parsec-scale bipolar nebula around MWC 349A Authors: V. V. Gvaramadze, K. M. Menten We report the discovery of a bipolar nebula around the peculiar emission-line star MWC 349A using archival Spitzer Space Telescope 24 um data. The nebula extends over several arcminutes (up t...
Orbital elements:
2012 EP5 Earth MOID = 0.2393 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 76.48878 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.66 H 21.7 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 EM8 Earth MOID = 0.0385 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 345.40476 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.61 H 24.7 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 EK8 Earth MOID = 0.0282 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 350.94001 (2000.0) P Q
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The best way to view the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum's Titan II missile is from the very bottom. Descend via McMinnville's biggest spiral staircase to two stories below the museum floor, where huge steel supports hold the missile upright. Crank your head back as far as it will go and look up...
Gemini 8 (officially Gemini VIII) was the sixth manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. The mission was launch on the 16th March, 1966, and conducted the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, but suffered the first critical in-space system failure of a U.S. spacecraft which threatened th...
