Stargazing viewer in planet coup The public push initiated on BBC Two's Stargazing Live series to find planets beyond our Solar System has had an immediate result. A viewer who answered the call has helped spot a world that appears to be circling a star dubbed SPH10066540. The planet is described as b...
Take part in our Star Count We'll be asking people around the country to count the stars in the sky where they live during our Star Count Week which starts on Friday 20 January and finishes on Friday 27 January. You will help us show where the clearest skies are where the most stars can be seen. [url=http:...
TEDxBucharest - Joe Liske Joe is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany. He spends much of his time working on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). This future giant telescope will be Eur...
Meteorite Possibly Found in Callisburg, TX The peculiar looking rock was found in a creek bed, on Coy Stopall's property about two years ago. He said when he came across the rock, it was about 6 feet under the surface. So he dug it up. He has sent it to be tested at North Texas University. He has received no...
China readies its first robotic Mars mission The rapidly ascending Chinese space program is setting its sights on a new target: Mars. China plans to send an orbiter to the Red Planet on a Russian launch vehicle later this year. The nation's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, will piggyback on the ambitiou...
Title: Mid-infrared variability of the binary system CS Cha Authors: Erick Nagel, Catherine Espaillat, Paola D'Alessio, Nuria Calvet CS Cha is a binary system surrounded by a circumbinary disk. We construct a model for the inner disk regions and compare the resulting synthetic SED with IRS spect...
Title: Cool Young Stars in the Northern Hemisphere: Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Group Candidates Authors: Joshua E. Schlieder, Sébastien Lépine, Michal Simon As part of our continuing effort to identify new, low-mass members of nearby, young moving groups (NYMGs), we present a list of y...
Orbital elements:
2012 BB2 Earth MOID = 0.2391 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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P 2.17 H 20.6 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 BR1 Earth MOID = 0.0566 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 122.45965 (2000.0) P Q
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Orbital elements:
2012 BO1 Earth MOID = 0.1376 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
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P 1.23 H 24.8 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 BU1 Earth MOID = 0.0004 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 45.28835 (2000.0) P Q
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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