Orbital elements:
2012 DS32 Earth MOID = 0.0020 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 334.34249 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.39 H 26.3...
Orbital elements:
2012 DE31 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0446 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 80.99090 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.24 H...
Orbital elements:
2012 DG31 Earth MOID = 0.1991 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 67.82067 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.1136332 Incl. 19.48576 +0.21807437 +0.18963089
P 1.51 H 19.9...
Orbital elements:
2004 PS92 Earth MOID = 0.5193 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 324.06094 (2000.0) P Q
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a 2.5866393 Node 326.87562 -0.58786285 -0.40905260
e 0.5001177 Incl. 26.39762 -0.73266795 -0.09652833
P 4.16 H 18....
The University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the palace hall of Magnaura in the Roman-Byzantine Empire was founded in 425 under the name of Pandidakterion. The original school was founded in 425 by Emperor Theodosius II with 31 chairs for law, philosophy, medicine, arit...
Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (27 February 1897 in Paris - 2 April 1952 in Cairo) was a French astronomer. Throughout the 1930s, he laboured to perfect the coronagraph, which he invented to observe the corona without having to wait for a solar eclipse. In 1938, he showed a movie of the corona in action to the I...
The Brazilian navy says it has recovered the bodies of two of its members from the debris of a Brazilian research station in the Antarctic. The Comandante Ferraz base near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula was destroyed by an explosion on Saturday. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-...
The International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) has recently signed membership agreements with three new organisations - the Met Office, BMT Argoss, and the University of Leicester. All new members will provide services and resources that strengthen ISIC's ability to help drive innovation a...
NASA astronomer Natalie Batalha is one of the leaders of the space agency's Kepler mission. During a recent visit to Houston to speak at Rice University, Batalha sat down with science writer Eric Berger to discuss her career and breakthroughs. [url=http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/ar...
Orbital elements:
2012 DP30
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 350.21764 (2000.0) P Q
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P 5.55 H 17.9 G 0.15 U 6 MPEC 2012 - D...
A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique, called astrometry, was first attempted 50 years ago to search for planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. It involves measuring the p...
Orbital elements:
2012 DF31 Earth MOID = 0.0233 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 311.25383 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.84588127 Peri. 164.43710 +0.08517662 +0.99602590
a 1.1072944 Node 110.44351 -0.91708648 +0.08858325
e 0.4746220 Incl. 1.59161 -0.38948341 +0.00924205
P 1.17 H 24.4...
Orbital elements:
2012 DJ31 Earth MOID = 0.0071 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 348.12193 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.35903363 Peri. 320.80745 -0.65914491 +0.75184130
a 1.9605562 Node 267.95153 -0.68582067 -0.60982598
e 0.5916331 Incl. 0.92920 -0.30850931 -0.25069293
P 2.75 H 24.7...
Orbital elements:
2012 DN31 Earth MOID = 0.0187 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 3.94348 (2000.0) P Q
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a 2.5107588 Node 150.15282 +0.36227012 -0.86005707
e 0.5986384 Incl. 2.74202 +0.16292246 -0.32106906
P 3.98 H 23.7 G 0.1...
On February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Concepción, killing more than 521 people and injuring thousands nationwide. Following the earthquake, geologists relying on global positioning satellite (GPS) data concluded that the city had been displaced roughly 3 meters...