Orbital elements:
2011 YB40 Earth MOID = 0.1652 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 33.84903 (2000.0) P Q
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P 4.18 H 19.2 G...
Well, 2007 is here, so i would like to take this moment to wish you all a Happy New Year! :)
Astronomy wise, 2006 was quite a year. The most significant events of course would be the planetary missions and their findings, and new clues on dark matter; and new discoveries about gamma ray bursts, and th...
Resurrection of a fallen giant A two metre high stone in the North York Moors National Park is standing tall again thanks to help from Tees Archaeology. Centuries of cultivation around the scheduled monument had reduced the level of the surrounding ground, causing it to topple over. The standing st...
Moss Has Cloned Itself for 50,000 Years A moss spreading throughout the Hawaiian Islands (map) appears to be an ancient clone that has copied itself for some 50,000 years - and may be one of the oldest multicellular organisms on Earth, a new study suggests. The peat moss Sphagnum palustre is found thr...
Cyclonic Storm Thane (06B) is forecast to make landfall in India probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 80% in about 24 hours Pondicherry (11.9 N, 79.8 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 36 hours probability for TS is...
New version of the Gemini IRAF package released (v1.11) Gemini is developing data reduction software for use with observational data obtained with the Gemini telescopes. The released version of the Gemini IRAF package is an external package layered upon IRAF and is available to users and other in...
A Russian launcher will put several European Space Agency (ESA) satellites into orbit Dec 17 from the Kourou space port in French Guiana, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Monday. The Soyuz ST-A will orbit Pleiades and SSoT satellites, as well as four ELISA microsatellites. The rocket...
Title: Absorption line systems in simulated galaxies fed by cold streams Authors: Michele Fumagalli, J. Xavier Prochaska, Daniel Kasen, Avishai Dekel, Daniel Ceverino, Joel R. Primack (Version v2) Hydro cosmological simulations reveal that massive galaxies at high redshift are fed by long n...
Maxima of long period variable RS Hydrae on the 31st December, 2011. Magnitude: 10.0-14.1 Period: 338.6 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 10 51 19.04 | Dec. -28° 37' 40.3'' Google earth file: RS Hydrae.kmz (1kb, kmz)
The mammoth B-15A iceberg appears poised to strike another floating Antarctic ice feature, a month on from a passing blow that broke off the end of the Drygalski ice tongue[img]http://www.esa.int/images/B-15A_Iceberg_ASA_WSM_Date20050516_Time190842_Orbit16786b...
Orbital elements:
2011 YZ28 Earth MOID = 0.2098 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 28.59406 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.32 H 22.3 G...
Orbital elements:
2011 YY28 Earth MOID = 0.1553 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 21.51386 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.6836514 Incl. 7.39778 +0.26396981 +0.31055312
P 6.47 H 21.3 G...
Orbital elements:
2011 YB29 Earth MOID = 0.0787 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 13.87092 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.23137249 Peri. 32.44658 -0.45418147 -0.88872391
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e 0.5986024 Incl. 3.59115 +0.38496333 -0.13264528
P 4.26 H 23.7 G 0....
