Clayton Conrad Anderson (born February 23, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced Sunita Williams on June 10, 2007 as a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew. Read more
Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev (February 23, 1928 - December 31, 1990) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 12 spaceflight as well as the abortive Soyuz 18a launch. Read more
Living in the Past was a fly on the wall documentary programme aired by the BBC in 1978 which followed a group of 15 young volunteers recreating an Iron Age settlement, where they sustained themselves for a year, equipped only with the tools,...
Orbital elements:
2012 DZ Earth MOID = 0.0026 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 353.75924 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29791992 Peri. 251.00460 -0.78329799 +0.62152947
a 2.2202558 Node 327.42010 -0.56159700 -0.71581687
e 0.6544676 Incl. 1.28301 -0.26655781 -0.31828813
P 3.31 H 26.0 G 0...
Title: New activity in the large circumstellar disk of the Be-shell star 48 Lib Authors: S. Stefl, J.-B. Le Bouquin, A. C. Carciofi, T. Rivinius, D. Baade, F. Rantakyro Spectroscopic, polarimetric, and high spectral resolution interferometric data covering the period 1995-2011 are analysed to...
Jupiter captured at 19:04 UT, 22nd February, 2012, with a short focus 102mm Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam + Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Skywatcher Barlow lens. The two moons Ganymede and Europa were also captured. T...
The 26 - 59 metre wide asteroid 1992 JD will make a close pass (44.1 lunar distances, 0.1134 AU), travelling at 7.73 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th November, 2011 @ 04:05 UT ±13:44. See moreThe Lunar Distanc...
Title: Solid-phase C_60 in the peculiar binary XX Oph? Authors: A. Evans, J. Th. van Loon (Keele University), C. E. Woodward, R. D. Gehrz, L. A. Helton (University of Minnesota), G. C. Clayton (Louisiana State University), M. T. Rushton, S. P. S. Eyres (University of Central Lancashire), J. Krautt...
Title: Exploring the supernova remnant G308.4-1.4 Authors: Tobias Prinz, Werner Becker Aims: We present a detailed X-ray and radio wavelength study of G308.4-1.4, a candidate supernova remnant (SNR) in the ROSAT All Sky Survey and the MOST supernova remnant catalogue. Methods: The SNR candida...
UK overtakes US in physics research Britain has overtaken the US in the standard of its physics research, according to the Institute of Physics. While the US does more work in the field, British studies have received more citations per paper, which puts the UK second in the world to Canada, the resear...
JCG to use satellites to spot suspicious boats The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Japan Coast Guard will jointly develop a satellite-based monitoring system to survey smuggling and suspicious boats that enter Japan's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, officials said...
Title: Citations to Australian Astronomy: 5 and 10 Year Benchmarks Authors: Katherine H. Kenyon, Arjun Paramasivam, Jiachin Tu, Albert Zhang, Alister W. Graham Expanding upon Pimbblet's informative 2011 analysis of career h-indices for members of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we pr...
The magnitude 17.5 asteroid (5468) Hamatonbetsu is predicted to occult the magnitude 4.1 wide double star 9 Orionis (HD 31421) in the constellation Orion at ~16:43 UT, 22nd February, 2012. The 3 second even will be visible for observers in China, N. India, Arabia and Africa. Position (J2000): ...
