The SU UMa-type dwarf nova HS 2219+1824 is in outburst. Date: 16th January, 2012 Magnitude range: 11.8 - 17.5 V. Period: - Satellite period: 0.0599 days Type: UGSU Position (J2000): R.A. 22 21 44.80 | Dec. +18° 40' 08.4''
Potential medieval village among Western Isles 'finds' Archaeologists' chance encounter with an islander has led them to the site of a possible medieval fishing village on the Western Isles. The site is among potential new historic finds made along the islands' coasts following tip offs from mem...
Bones discovered on Milton Keynes building site A set of bones which could be thousands of years old has been discovered on a building site in Milton Keynes. The human remains were uncovered by a digger driver at the Taylor Wimpey development in Oakridge Park. Forensic archaeologists established t...
1st Private Rocket Launch to Space Station Delayed The first test flight of a privately built robot space capsule to the International Space Station has been delayed to allow more time to prepare the vehicle, the spacecraft's builder announced today (Jan. 16). [url=http://www.oddonion.com/20...
The FengYun-2F (FY-2F) geostationary meteorological satellite, atop a Long March CZ-3A rocket, is scheduled to be launched from the Xichang launch centre in January 2012. Read more (Chinese) Ed ~ Launch possibly on...
Charles Messier's "anti-list' of objects in space has become iconic in the world of astronomy. We'll making videos about each object - but first here's an introduction to the catalogue itself. [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/...
JodBite with Dr Tim O'Brien In this first JodBite, Dr Tim O'Brien discusses his role at Jodrell Bank, including his research into classical and recurrent nova explosions, supernovae and planetary nebulae. Tim also talks about his public engagement activities including the BBC show Stargazing L...
Egyptian tomb holds singer Nehmes Bastet's remains Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb was found by a team from the University of Basel in Switzerland who came across it by chance. The woman, Nehmes Bastet, was a temple singe...
Dawn at Laguna Negra A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) project is led by Principal Investigator Nathalie Cabrol of the NASA Ames Research C...
Title: A bright z=5.2 lensed submillimetre galaxy in the field of Abell 773: HLSJ091828.6+514223 Authors: F. Combes (Obs-Paris), M. Rex (Tucson), T. D. Rawle (Tucson), E. Egami (Tucson), F. Boone (Toulouse), I. Smail (Durham), J. Richard (Lyon), R.J. Ivison (Edinburgh), M. Gurwell (Harvard),...
Title: Universal spin transport in a strongly interacting Fermi gas Authors: Ariel Sommer, Mark Ku, Giacomo Roati & Martin W. Zwierlein Transport of fermions, particles with half-integer spin, is central to many fields of physics. Electron transport runs modern technology, defining stat...
The (1st) Grote Mandrenke (Low Saxon for "Great Drowning of Men") was the name of a massive southwesterly Atlantic gale which swept across England, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and Schleswig around January 16, 1362, causing at minimum 25,000 deaths. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 AC11 Earth MOID = 0.2515 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 21.80578 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.64178768 Peri. 191.25918 -0.68035412 -0.66680348
a 1.3310932 Node 302.48429 +0.69729947 -0.46122187
e 0.0728774 Incl. 21.13296 +0.22559195 -0.58536100
P 1.54 H 21.7...