Schröter is a lunar crater near the mid-part of the Moon, on the eastern Mare Insularum, and named after German astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter. The rim of Schröter is heavily worn and eroded, with a wide gap in the southern wall and a deep indentation to the southeast. There is no central peak a...
Artists reckon that the "Golden Ratio", also called the "Golden Section Phi" and nature's most astonishing number, is the ratio that controls the proportions of all beautiful objects. It is said that a well-proportioned face must lie in what is called a "golden rectan...
Orbital elements:
2012 BL86 Earth MOID = 0.0269 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2012 BK86 Earth MOID = 0.4094 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2012 BG86 Earth MOID = 0.1885 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2012 BB102 Earth MOID = 0.1509 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 18.95613 (2000.0) P Q
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wxAstroCapture is a free capture program primarily intended for astronomical use, it is developed as a joint effort between Martin Burri (Switzerland) and Carsten Arnholm (Norway). wxAstroCapture supports Philips webcams for planetary/lunar/solar and deep sky imaging. Long exposures are s...
Craterlet is a capture application for the Orion StarShoot Solar System imager and for other cameras compatible with DirectX (DirectShow) and WDM (e.g., the ToUcam, Vesta, etc). It provides streaming to AVI and still capture. [url=http://www.stark-labs.com/craterlet.html]Read more[/url...
Cosmology in a petri dish Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning from long-ranged cosmological-style gravitational at...
Will German Satellite Crash Into Earth? Parts of Rosat, a massive, out-of-control German satellite, could smash into the earth sometime between October and December this year. Officials in Germany, however, say that humans likely are not in danger. [url=http://www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Title: WASP-4b: a 12th-magnitude transiting hot-Jupiter in the Southern hemisphere Authors: D.M. Wilson, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, P.F.L. Maxted, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, D.R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, B. Smalley, T.A. Lister, S.J. Bentley, A. Blecha, D.J. Christian, B. Enoch, C.A. Haswell, L. He...
Title: The Discovery of the Most Metal-Rich White Dwarf: Composition of a Tidally Disrupted Extrasolar Dwarf Planet Authors: P. Dufour, M. Kilic, G. Fontaine, P. Bergeron, F.-R. Lachapelle, S. J. Kleinman, S. K. Leggett Cool white dwarf stars are usually found to have an outer atmosphere that is p...
Title: A Cosmology Forecast Toolkit -- CosmoLib Authors: Zhiqi Huang The package CosmoLib is a combination of a cosmological Boltzmann code and a simulation toolkit to forecast the constraints on cosmological parameters from future observations. In this paper we describe the released linear-...
Orbital elements:
2012 BE86 Earth MOID = 0.5025 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 64.86394 (2000.0) P Q
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