Maxima of long period variable Y Andromedae on the 30th December, 2011. Magnitude: 9.2-14.2 Period: 220.53 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 01 39 36.9 | Dec. +39° 20' 34.6''
Highlights:Winter Solstice on December 22nd. This is officially the longest night of 2010, (even though the year's earliest sunset occurs two weeks earlier). The Geminid meteors on the night of the 13th-14th. Watch out for this reliable shower. Capricornus, the Sea Goat: Sign of the Zodiac for bi...
Orbital elements:
2011 YH28 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0130 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 358.87981 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.24386113 Peri. 287.48312 -0.82944481 +0.53999180
a 2.5373146 Node 285.41814 -0.43954419 -0.78885378
e 0.7009215 Incl. 8.52669 -0.34470598 -0.29345966
P 4.04 H...
Orbital elements:
2011 YL28 Earth MOID = 0.0041 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 20.59753 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.58309912 Peri. 46.96510 -0.82542835 -0.55934915
a 1.4189741 Node 98.88541 +0.49293509 -0.77991705
e 0.3577231 Incl. 4.41959 +0.27510548 -0.28081654
P 1.69 H 25.2 G 0....
Title: Keck Observations of the Most Distant Galaxy: 8C1435+63 at z=4.25 Authors: Hyron Spinrad, Arjun Dey, James R. Graham (U.C.Berkeley) (1 Nov 1994) We report on Keck observations and confirm the redshift of the most distant galaxy known: 8C1435+63 at z=4.25. The spectrum shows a strong Ly \al...
Orbital elements:
2011 YK28 Earth MOID = 0.1289 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 65.88656 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.64325582 Peri. 338.89546 +0.31964471 -0.90725080
a 1.3290671 Node 91.63143 +0.90380978 +0.20530248
e 0.1696634 Incl. 15.87064 +0.28452616 +0.36707884
P 1.53 H 23.6 G...
Orbital elements:
2011 YG28 Earth MOID = 0.1123 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 19.16858 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21131387 Peri. 151.59497 +0.07600652 -0.97845101
a 2.7915841 Node 293.49036 +0.87064489 +0.15897062
e 0.6169924 Incl. 12.08300 +0.48600461 -0.13176482
P 4.66 H 21.5...
Bright lights put Esperance police on space junk alert Esperance police have been inundated with reports of multi-coloured lights descending to Earth along the coast near the Duke of Orleans Bay early on Tuesday evening. Sen. Sgt Duncan Swadkins said the station received about 20 phone calls from...
Orbcomm And SpaceX Reach Deal To Launch 18 Orbcomm Generation 2 Satellites ORBCOMM Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announce they have reached an agreement for SpaceX to launch 18 ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to begin as early as the fourth quarter of 2010 through 2...
The Hong Kong Observatory Almanac 2012 is now on sale. The Almanac is bilingual (English and Chinese) and packed with information, including the traditional Chinese calendar, solar terms and moon phases, as well as the times of daily sunrise, sun transit, sunset, moonrise, moon transit, moonset...
Wave damages anti-whaling boat in Southern Ocean A rogue wave has damaged an anti-whaling boat in the Southern Ocean, breaking a hole in its hull. The Brigitte Bardot was chasing the Japanese whaling fleet and is currently about 1,500 miles southwest of Fremantle, Australia. The Sea Shepherd flag...
Professors' proposed calendar synchronises dates with days Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered a way to make time stand still - at least when it comes to the yearly calendar. Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the...
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