Orbital elements:
2012 EF5 Earth MOID = 0.0514 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 318.74084 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.35 H 21.3 G...
Title: Highly Ionised Collimated Outflow from HE 0238 - 1904 Authors: Sowgat Muzahid (IUCAA), Raghunathan Srianand (IUCAA), Blair D. Savage (Wisconsin), Anand Narayanan (IIST), Vijay Mohan (IUCAA), Gulab C. Dewangan (IUCAA) We present a detailed analysis of a highly ionised, multiphased and...
NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalogue of Entire Infrared Sky NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalogue of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. WISE launched Dec. 14, 20...
Anna Perenna was an old Roman deity of the circle or "ring" of the year, as the name (per annum) clearly indicates. Her festival fell on the Ides of March (March 15), which would have marked the first full moon in the year in the old lunar Roman calendar when March was reckoned as the first mont...
Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (15 March 1713 - 21 March 1762) was a French astronomer. He is noted for his catalogue of nearly 10,000 southern stars, including 42 nebulous objects. This catalogue, called Coelum Australe Stelliferum, was published posthumously in 1763. It introduced 14 new const...
Title: Multi-wavelength Observations of the Radio Magnetar PSR J1622-4950 and Discovery of its Possibly Associated Supernova Remnant Authors: Gemma E. Anderson, B. M. Gaensler, Patrick O. Slane, Nanda Rea, David L. Kaplan, Bettina Posselt, Lina Levin, Simon Johnston, Stephen S. Murray, Crys...
Orbital elements:
2012 EM5 Earth MOID = 0.0138 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 18.54918 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.6185082 Incl. 28.85510 +0.78002736 -0.12624748
P 2.54 H 25.4 G...
Orbital elements:
2011 SL173 Earth MOID = 0.0536 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 289.34812 (2000.0) P Q
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a 1.1622124 Node 186.84615 +0.90043861 +0.43375923
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P 1.25 H 25...
Space pioneer Bert Bulkin dies at 82 Bert Bulkin, who led the effort to launch a space telescope allowing scientists to see the universe with striking new depth and clarity, has died at 82. Mr. Bulkin, who retired to Woodbridge in 1992, is known for his pivotal role in the creation of the Hubble Space Te...
Orbital elements:
2012 EJ5 Earth MOID = 0.0112 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 358.33750 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.80 H 27.7 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 EK5 Earth MOID = 0.0053 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 339.48148 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.44 H 25.6 G 0....
Title: The Dark Matter Distribution in Abell 383: Evidence for a Shallow Density Cusp from Improved Lensing, Stellar Kinematic and X-ray Data Authors: Andrew B. Newman, Tommaso Treu, Richard S. Ellis, David J. Sand We extend our analyses of the dark matter (DM) distribution in relaxed clusters to...
Title: SY Cancri, a case for unstable mass transfer? Authors: J. Casares, I. G. Martinez-Pais, P. Rodriguez-Gil Intermediate resolution (0.5-1 Angs) optical spectroscopy of the cataclysmic variable SY Cnc reveals the spectrum of the donor star. Our data enable us to resolve the orbital motion o...
ESO's VLT takes the search for young galaxies to new limits Staring for the equivalent of every night for two weeks at the same little patch of sky with ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has found the extremely faint light from teenage galaxies billions of light years a...
Title: A New Collisional Ring Galaxy at z = 0.111: Auriga's Wheel Authors: Blair C. Conn, Anna Pasquali, Emanuela Pompei, Richard R. Lane, André-Nicolas Chené, Rory Smith, Geraint F. Lewis We report the serendipitous discovery of a collision ring galaxy, identified as 2MASX J06470249+4554022,...