The show, including the embalmed mummies and objects dating back 6,000 years from the collections at the Scottish museum and the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden in The Netherlands, opened at the weekend and runs through to May 27 when it will go on to Spain. [url=http://zeenews.india.com...
While the shiny material of pearls and abalone shells has long been prized for its iridescence and aesthetic value in jewellery and decorations, scientists admire mother-of-pearl for other physical properties as well. Also called nacre ("NAY-ker"), mother-of-pearl is 3,000 times...
Theresa McDonald, Managing Director of the Achill Archaeological Field School, voiced her objections this week over the Achill-Henge which was built at Pollagh in November by Joe McNamara. The archaeologist believes that a prehistoric site could be less than half a kilometre from where Achill-...
The 14 - 31 metre wide asteroid 1993 DA will make a close pass (76.1 lunar distances, 0.1956 AU), travelling at 7.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th October, 2011 @ 22:40 UT ±2 days 03:31. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Georg Joachim de Porris, also known as Rheticus (16 February 1514 - 4 December 1574), was a mathematician, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus's sole pupil. Read more...
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. The Protocol was initially adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, and entered into force on 16 February 2005. Read more
Title: The M Dwarf Problem in the Galaxy Authors: Vincent M. Woolf, Andrew A. West We present evidence that there is an M dwarf problem similar to the previously identified G dwarf and K dwarf problems: the number of low-metallicity M dwarfs is not sufficient to match simple closed-box models of loca...
Orbital elements:
2012 CC29 Earth MOID = 0.0197 AU
Epoch 2012 Feb. 3.0 TT = JDT 2455960.5 MPC
M 16.90804 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31026725 Peri. 230.09298 +0.74340919 -0.66882237
a 2.1609535 Node 171.87986 +0.62277198 +0.68979050
e 0.7372857 Incl. 1.78773 +0.24392180 +0.27724666
P 3.18 H 22.6 G 0...
Xombie rocket goes the distance Masten Space Systems' Xombie rocket has prevailed in its second attempt to qualify for a $150,000 rocket prize from NASA. The first attempt, back on Sept. 16, ended at the halfway point of the required round trip due to an engine leak, but this time around the engine wen...
A H-2A rocket body that was launched on the 11th September, 2006, from the Tanegashima Space Centre, for the IGS 3A optical surveillance satellite mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 31st January, 2012 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.H-2A RB
1 29394U 06037B 12004.94652193 +.002...
CBBS (Computerised Bulletin Board System) was a computer software program created by Ward Christensen to allow him and other computer hobbyists to exchange information between one another. In January 1978, Chicago was hit by the Great Blizzard of 1978, which dumped record amounts of snow throug...
Explorer 9 (S-56a) was launched on the 16th February, 1961. The Explorer program is a NASA program that provides flight opportunities for heliophysics and astrophysics investigations from space. Read more
Swiss craft janitor satellites to grab space junk Swiss scientists said Wednesday they plan to launch a "janitor satellite" specially designed to get rid of orbiting debris known as space junk. The 10-million-franc ($11-million) satellite called CleanSpace One - the prototype for a...
Orbital elements:
2012 CM29 Earth MOID = 0.2380 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 0.45660 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.32937836 Peri. 40.27517 -0.99018417 -0.11470446
a 2.0765354 Node 132.94592 +0.08265469 -0.94133219
e 0.4127982 Incl. 6.26365 +0.11270986 -0.31739029
P 2.99 H 21.7 G 0....
