Title: Quantifying Jupiter's influence on the Earth's impact flux: Implications for planetary habitability Authors: J. Horner, B. W. Jones It has long been thought that the presence of a giant planet is a pre-requisite for the development of life on potentially habitable planets. Without Jupit...
Title: Neutron stars from young nearby associations the origin of RXJ1605.3+3249 Authors: Nina Tetzlaff, Janos G. Schmidt, Markus M. Hohle, Ralph Neuhaeuser Many neutron stars (NSs) and runaway stars apparently come from the same regions on the sky. This suggests that they share the same birth p...
On 17 November, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission will reach another important milestone on its epic out-of-ecliptic journey: the start of the third passage over the Sun's south pole.
Launched in 1990, the European-built spacecraft is engaged in the exploration of the heliosphere, the bub...
Alpha Centaurid meteor shower. The Alpha Centaurid meteor shower is considered to be a "minor" meteor shower. The reason is, on average, only 3 to 5 meteors per hour are normally observed during this shower. This particular shower is also considered to be for more advanced meteor observ...
Orbital elements:
2012 BC77 Earth MOID = 0.0114 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 356.50866 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.40192215 Peri. 56.15524 -0.89611150 +0.44220432
a 1.8184782 Node 150.03804 -0.42816751 -0.83881693
e 0.5715425 Incl. 4.35692 -0.11686216 -0.31755551
P 2.45 H 25.1 G...
Tropical Storm Jasmine is forecast to make landfall in Vanuatu in about 45 hours. Lenakel (19.5 S, 169.3 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 45 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 45 hours
Title: Discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a Fermi source with the Nancay Radio Telescope Authors: L. Guillemot, P. C. C. Freire, I. Cognard, T. J. Johnson, Y. Takahashi, J. Kataoka, G. Desvignes, F. Camilo, E. C. Ferrara, A. K. Harding, G. H. Janssen, M. Keith, M. Kerr, M. Kramer, D...
The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity (Pilot) - 1975 Between the two seasons of "Space: 1999", Gerry Anderson created a hour long pilot for another proposed series called "The Day After Tomorrow". The concept was ca...
A Chang Zheng-3B rocket body that was launched on the 17th September, 2011, from the Xichang Satellite Launch site, for the Zhongxing-1A satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 6th February, 2012 @ 19:06 GMT ± 72 hours.CZ-3B RB
1 37805U 11047B 12034.6861808...
Title: Ellipsoidal primary of the RS CVn binary zeta And: Investigation using high-resolution spectroscopy and optical interferometry Authors: H. Korhonen (ESO), M. Wittkowski (ESO), Zs. Kovari (Konkoly), Th. Granzer (AIP), T. Hackman (Helsinki), K.G. Strassmeier (AIP) We have obtained hi...
Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power. The same NIST group also has shown that this type of laser, wh...
Big Bend National Park Designated as International Dark Sky Park The stars at night are big and bright in Texas Big Bend National Park. The park was recently designated as an International Dark Sky Park, one of now just ten in the world. Big Bend National Park (BBNP) came in at the Gold Tier level meanin...
Sunspots 11410, 11413 and 11411 Expand (140kb, 560 x 560)Credit: SOHO/MDISunspots 11410 (top) and 11413 captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Solar filter + Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. 2x Barlow lens[video=...
Goldschmidt is a large lunar crater of the variety commonly termed a walled plain. It lies in the northern part of the Moon's near side, and appears oval in shape due to foreshortening. The rim is actually relatively circular, although the western rim is overlain by the prominent crater Anaxagoras....
Sinus Roris (latin for "Bay of Dew") is an extension of the northern edge of Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. The IAU-defined selenographic coordinates of this bay are 54.0° N, 56.6° W, and the diameter is 202 km. The borders of this feature are somewhat indistinct. The bay proper is frame...
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