Orbital elements:
1996 AE2 Earth MOID = 0.1213 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 68.62025 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.61628231 Peri. 305.87462 +0.27949026 -0.80006174
a 1.3675701 Node 118.98011 +0.95222622 +0.30184429
e 0.2568528 Incl. 37.35965 -0.12308706 +0.51845080
P 1.60 H 20.0 G...
Fossils, mineral rocks attract huge crowds at expo A meteorite, the cast of a six-inch-long dinosaur claw and a huge amethyst are among a few hundred rare items that are wowing crowds at an expo on rocks, minerals and fossils here, with nearly 5,000 people turning up on the opening day itself. Student...
Forecasters give Highland blizzard warning The Met Office has issued a warning of heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions for northern Scotland on Tuesday. On higher-level routes, up to 20cm of snow has been forecast, with slushy deposits to sea level. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...
Title: Modelling the near-UV band of GK stars, Paper II: NLTE models Authors: C. Ian Short, Eamonn A. Campbell, Heather Pickup, Peter H. Hauschildt We present a grid of atmospheric models and synthetic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for late-type dwarfs and giants of solar and 1/3 sola...
Title: First SDO AIA Observations of a Global Coronal EUV "Wave": Multiple Components and "Ripples" Authors: Wei Liu, Nariaki V. Nitta, Carolus J. Schrijver, Alan M. Title, Theodore D. Tarbell We present the first SDO AIA observations of a global coronal EUV disturbance (s...
That is no Moon!
It is the supergiant star, Rigel, emerging from behind Saturn.
This image was captured by the Cassini spaceprobe in orbit around the planet.
The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 663,...
Orbital elements:
2012 AC3 Earth MOID = 0.0659 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 18.15750 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.44292650 Peri. 208.97939 -0.66185848 -0.73885858
a 1.7044396 Node 282.76875 +0.71036568 -0.56423518
e 0.3949921 Incl. 7.45951 +0.23942420 -0.36841100
P 2.23 H 23.0 G 0...
The variable star T Sculptoris is predicted to be in outburst on the 16th June, 2011. Magnitude range: 9.2-13.0 V Peroid: 202.42 days Position (2000): RA 00 29 12.12 | Dec -35° 54' 30.7''
A SL-6 rocket body that was launched on the 27th June, 1979, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, for the KOSMOS 1109 satellite mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 2nd January, 2012 @ 22:49 GMT ± 48 hours.SL-6 RB
1 11555U 79058D 11364.60034207 .40531815 14982-4 32387-2 3188
...
Orbital elements:
2012 AB3 Earth MOID = 0.0347 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 26.13802 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25774490 Peri. 310.95002 +0.43704947 -0.89057210
a 2.4453592 Node 112.71766 +0.86080294 +0.37354597
e 0.6212914 Incl. 7.84928 +0.26077971 +0.25950867
P 3.82 H 24.0 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 AA3 Earth MOID = 0.1755 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 38.29110 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.36423992 Peri. 164.99481 +0.25017941 -0.95407552
a 1.9418292 Node 270.30754 +0.87047317 +0.29615605
e 0.4049197 Incl. 9.48419 +0.42389470 -0.04507215
P 2.71 H 22.4 G 0...
Did you see the 'fireball' over Huntsville this morning? A rare meteor brighter than the planet Venus streaked over Huntsville early Tuesday morning, Jan. 3, according to an observation station at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Centre. The meteor, which passed over the city at 4:30 a...
The RADIOSCAF-B (KEDR) amateur radio satellite that was launched on the 20th November, 1998, from the ISS, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on (or after) the 30th December, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.RADIOSCAF-B (KEDR)
1 37772U 98067CK 11363.12738860 .00944760 52788-3 94753-3
Title: Kepler's Constant and WDS Orbit Authors: S. Siregar, R. N. Pratama The aim of this work are to find a Kepler's constant by using polynomial regression of the angular separation ho = ho(t) and the position angle \theta = \theta(t). The Kepler's constant obtained is used to derive the eleme...