Orbital elements:
2011 YA29 Earth MOID = 0.0679 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 14.62371 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.69843112 Peri. 237.81178 -0.85843290 -0.33557328
a 1.2581150 Node 279.97932 +0.49026771 -0.75910684
e 0.2341245 Incl. 23.19622 -0.15076648 -0.55780587
P 1.41 H 25.0...
Orbital elements:
2011 YE29 Earth MOID = 0.0123 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 78.91981 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.92554365 Peri. 170.20466 +0.01696129 -0.90824977
a 1.0428090 Node 277.92091 +0.88641504 +0.20711262
e 0.0462880 Incl. 24.96799 +0.46258047 -0.36357491
P 1.06 H 24.6...
Elephants compete in football tournament Nepal's elephants have taken part in a football tournament as part of the three-day Chitwan Elephant Festival.
Title: Uniquely extensive seismite from the latest Triassic of the United Kingdom: Evidence for bolide impact?
Authors: Simms, Michael J.
ABSTRACT
A 2–4 m thick seismite, in places overlain by a previously unreported tsunamite, can be traced across >250,0...
Nuclear submarine in flames A fire has broken out on board a Russian nuclear submarine during repair work, but emergency officials say radiation levels are normal.
Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit. The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The project's organisers said the Hackersp...
The hunt for India's first astronauts - 'vyomanauts' in a desi tweak - has begun. Two of the four selected vyomanauts (vyoma means 'space' or 'sky' in Sanskrit) will finally go on India's first manned space mission scheduled to lift off in 2015. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is layin...
Title: Merging Cold Fronts in the Galaxy Pair NGC 7619 and NGC 7626 Authors: S. W. Randall, C. Jones, R. Kraft, W. R. Forman, E. O'Sullivan (Version v2) We present results from {\it Chandra} observations of the galaxy pair NGC 7619 and NGC 7626, the two dominant members of the Pegasus group. The X-ray i...
Title: IRAS03063+5735: A Bowshock Nebula Powered by an Early B Star Authors: Henry A. Kobulnicky, Michael J. Lundquist, Anirban Bhattacharjee, C. R. Kerton Mid-infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope Galactic Legacy Infrared MidPlane Survey Extraordinaire program reveal that the i...
Title: Light Curve and orbital period analysis of the eclipsing binary AT Peg Authors: Alexios Liakos, Panagiotis Niarchos, Edwin Budding CCD photometric observations of the Algol-type eclipsing binary AT Peg have been obtained. The light curves are analysed with modern techniques and new geo...
Title: The third body in the eclipsing binary AV CMi: Hot Jupiter or brown dwarf? Authors: Alexios Liakos, Dimitris Mislis, Panagiotis Niarchos New transit light curves of the third body in the system AV CMi have been obtained. The eclipsing pair's light curves were re-analysed with the W-D code an...
The magnitude 19.1 asteroid (147857) 2005 UW381 will occult the star Betelgeuse from 21:16 to 21:31 UT ±1 minute, 2nd January, 2012. The 4 second event will be visible from Europe and Asia.
Australian scientific superstars No.2 - John Lovering John Lovering became famous in 1969 on ABC TV covering the live broadcasts of the first men on the moon. He is a geologist and did much to further the cause of rocks in Australia, despite watching our university departments of geology being close...
Maxima of long period variable U Leonis Minoris on the 30th December, 2011. Magnitude: 10.8-12.7 Period: 272.2 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 09 54 38.63 | Dec. +36° 05' 23.8''
Maxima of long period variable X Ursae Majoris on the 30th December, 2011. Magnitude: 9.7-14.4 Period: 249.04 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 08 40 49.49 | Dec. +50° 08' 11.7''