UCL scientist goes from Lab Bench to Backbench Dr Nguyen TK Thanh (UCL Physics and Astronomy) has taken part in a scheme where MPs and Civil Servants are paired up with leading scientists for a week at both their respective places of work. Dr Thanh was paired with Caroline Jacobs, Senior Policy advis...
An unusual sight in the sky over Perth on Dec. 17 has at least one Perth resident puzzled. James Hawley says he isn't sure what he saw, but is hoping someone might be able to give him an answer. Hawley said the object didn't streak through the sky, but rather travelled northwest to southeast from one side...
The 200 - 460 metre wide asteroid 2003 AF23 will make a close pass (14.1 lunar distances, 0.0361 AU), travelling at 16.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th January, 2012 @ 12:43 UT ±00:11. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Astronomers Find Three Smallest Planets Outside Solar System A team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has discovered the three smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system. The three planets, which all orbit a single star...
Tropical Cyclone Heidi batters Western Australia Tropical Cyclone Heidi has hit Western Australia, forcing residents to flee rising tidewaters and closing the world's largest iron ore export ports. Read more
Orbital elements:
2011 RR12 Earth MOID = 0.1779 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 346.91409 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.40678884 Peri. 182.41948 +0.95149466 -0.30576750
a 1.8039453 Node 195.51627 +0.28437588 +0.91636991
e 0.3475480 Incl. 7.32770 +0.11742344 +0.25840361
P 2.42 H 19.0...
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Girault (12 January 1716 - 3 July 1795) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. His name is also recalled as the meteorological term Ulloa's halo (also known as Bouguer's halo), which a...
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (12 January 1903 - 7 February 1960), was a Soviet nuclear physicist who is widely known as the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Along with Georgy Flyorov and Andrei Sakharov, Kurchatov is widely remembered and dubbed as the "father of the Soviet atomic bo...
STS-61-C was the twenty-fourth mission of the Space Shuttle, and the seventh mission of Columbia. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida on January 12, 1986. Read more
The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a multidisciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community. The Society was founded in January, 1866 with the name The Aëronautical Society of Great Britain. Early or founding members included James Glai...
Maxima of long period variable RT Sagittarii on the 29th April, 2010 Magnitude: 7.0-13.3 V Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 20 17 43.6461, Dec -39 06 46.024
Maxima of long period variable V Canis Minoris on the 12th January, 2012. Magnitude: 8.7-14.9 Period: 366.1 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 07 06 58.84 | Dec. +08° 52' 36.8'' Google earth file: V Canis Minoris.kmz (1kb, kmz)
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the most ambitious astronomical survey ever undertaken. When completed, it will provide detailed optical images covering more than a quarter of the sky, and a 3-dimensional map of about a million galaxies and quasars. As the survey progresses, the data are re...
China successfully launched the Ziyuan III satellite Monday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in northern Shanxi province. The satellite, a high-resolution remote-sensing satellite for civilian use, was launched at 11:17 a.m. aboard a Long March 4B rocket, according to a statement fro...
NASA Discovers New Double-Star Planet Systems While long anticipated in both science and science fiction, the existence of a circumbinary planet -- a planet orbiting two stars - like "Tatooine" portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, was not definitively established un...
