Title: NGC 6778: a disrupted planetary nebula around a binary central star Authors: M. A. Guerrero, L. F. Miranda The planetary nebula (PN) NGC 6778 harbours a binary central star with a short orbital period and displays two systems of fast collimated outflows. In order to assess the influence of th...
Seismic relay station equipment stolen According to the DOSTs official report, a team from DOST-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) found out that five pieces of 12-volt batteries and several meters of cables connected to the seismic sensors of the two stations in the...
Cannon Falls man discovers (same) meteorite, again Skunk Hollow resident Larry Plucker is a fairly down-to-earth guy, except for maybe once every fifty years or so when he has what could be called cosmic experiences. Plucker, who runs an appliance repair business, grew up on a farm near Emery, Sout...
A university lecturer and nuclear scientist has been killed in a car explosion in north Tehran. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an academic who also worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and another unidentified person were killed in the attack. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-mi...
A flight test of a NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket is scheduled for January 11 from Wallops Island. Using surplus rocket motors, the vehicle is being developed to support NASA science missions. The rocket is set for launch between 7:30 and 9:00 a.m. (local time). The bac...
Orbital elements:
2012 AO10 Earth MOID = 0.0464 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 70.38392 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.64486582 Peri. 112.29323 +0.55861301 -0.82484162
a 1.3268540 Node 303.45490 +0.71738060 +0.53319123
e 0.2918840 Incl. 5.99295 +0.41631308 +0.18799844
P 1.53 H 24.5 G...
Title: Discovery of a giant, highly-collimated jet from Sanduleak's star in the Large Magellanic Cloud Authors: R. Angeloni (1), F. Di Mille (2), J. Bland-Hawthorn (3), D. Osip (4)- ((1) Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, (2) Australian Astron...
Blessed Nicolas Steno (1 January 1638 - 25 November 1686 [NS: 11 January 1638 - 5 December 1686]) was a Danish Catholic bishop and scientist who pioneered in both anatomy and geology. By 1659, Steno had decided not to accept a statement as true simply because it was written in a book, but rather to rely o...
Crater Endymion (center) captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam (B/W mode). 2X Barlow lens. Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter Endymion is a lunar crater that lies near the northeast limb of the Moon. It is located to the e...
Title: 99 Herculis: Host to a Circumbinary Polar-ring Debris Disk Authors: G. M. Kennedy, M. C. Wyatt, B. Sibthorpe, G. Duchene, P. Kalas, B. C. Matthews, J. S. Greaves, K. Y. L. Su, M. P. Fitzgerald We present resolved Herschel images of a circumbinary debris disk in the 99 Herculis system. The prima...
The bright crater Proclus captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam. 2X Barlow lens. Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter. The crater is named after the Greek philosopher Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 - April 17, 485)
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (German Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften) was a German scientific institution established in 1911. It was implicated in Nazi science, and after the Second World War was wound up and its functions replaced b...
Lev Stepanovich Dyomin (January 11, 1926, in Moscow - December 18, 1998, in Zvyozdny Gorodok) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This spaceflight was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but the docking failed. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le...
