Captain Lawrence Edward Grace ("Titus") Oates (17 March 1880 - 16 March 1912) was an English Antarctic explorer, known for the manner of his death, when he walked from a tent into a blizzard, with the words "I am just going outside and may be some time". Read more
The GPS IIR-19(M) satellite was launched on the 15th March, 2008. United Launch Alliance successfully launched a Delta II expendable launch vehicle today from Space Launch Complex 17-A at 2:09 a.m., EDT carrying the Air Force's GPS IIR...
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Centre soon will have a new dog in the yard, and it's a real MUTT. That's short for the Multi-Use Technology Testbed, a small unmanned aircraft being developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to test technologies that will be needed for new kinds of lightweigh...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapour to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system. Astronomers say the water vapour is pouring down from the system's natal cloud and smacking into a dusty disk where planets are thought to form...
Title: Probing the interiors of the ice giants: Shock compression of water to 700 GPa and 3.8 g/ccm Authors: M. D. Knudson, M. P. Desjarlais, R. W. Lemke, T. R. Mattsson, M. French, N. Nettelmann, R. Redmer Recently there has been tremendous increase in the number of identified extra-solar planetar...
Korean, Chinese and Japanese astronomers will join hands to make a 6,000 km-diameter radio telescope, the world's largest. Quoting Shen Zhiqiang, a researcher at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Science, Xinhua said the radio telescope network of the three count...
Title: OH Maser sources in W49N: probing differential anisotropic scattering with Zeeman pairs Authors: Avinash A. Deshpande, W. M. Goss, J. E. Mendoza-Torres Our analysis of a VLBA 12-hour synthesis observations of the OH masers in W49N has provided detailed high angular-resolution images of...
Title: Polarisation of thermal molecular lines in the envelope of IK Tau Authors: W. H. T. Vlemmings, S. Ramstedt, R. Rao, M. Maercker Molecular line polarisation is a unique source of information about the magnetic fields and anisotropies in the circumstellar envelopes of evolved stars. Here we...
Orbital elements:
2012 EL5 Earth MOID = 0.0728 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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P 3.84 H 19.8 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 EO5 Earth MOID = 0.0270 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 25.48475 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.08 H 23.3 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 EN5 Earth MOID = 0.0010 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 289.49638 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.96193209 Peri. 104.73020 +0.16243983 +0.98669607
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P 1.02 H 27.2 G...
Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin (15 March 1925 - 30 December 2007) was a Swedish meteorologist who served as the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 1988 to 1997. Read more
