Hubble Captures a "Lucky" Galaxy Alignment An interesting galaxy has been circled in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy - one of a group of galaxies called Luminous Red Galaxies - has an unusually large mass, containing about ten times the mass of the Milky Way. Howev...
Orbital elements: 2008 GD Earth MOID = 0.1191 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 134.56338 (2000.0) P Q n 0.75200301 Peri. 292.71552 +0.78225360 +0.59103437 a 1.1976309 Node 32.08492 -0.34179984 +0.67141110 e 0.7767817 Incl. 21.75449 -0.52081875 +0.44708558 P 1.31 H 19.7 G 0.15 U 5 MP...
A speeding, superdense neutron star somehow got a powerful "kick" that is propelling it completely out of our Milky Way Galaxy into the cold vastness of intergalactic space. Its discovery is puzzling astronomers who used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)...
Title: Discovery of the longest-period rapidly oscillating Ap star HD177765 Authors: D. Alentiev, O. Kochukhov, T. Ryabchikova, M. Cunha, V. Tsymbal, W. Weiss We present the discovery of a long-period, rapidly oscillating Ap star, HD177765. Using high-resolution time-series observations o...
Title: A Search for Superhumps in the Cataclysmic Variable SW Sextantis Authors: Gerald D. Rude II, F. A. Ringwald We present differential photometry of the cataclysmic variable star SW Sextantis. A time series analysis was performed in search of superhumps in the accretion disk of this star, whi...
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) of Ramat-Gan Israel, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, have signed an agreement for launch of a communication satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as December 2012. Falcon 9 will insert the satellite int...
Meteor scatter occurs when a signal bounces off a meteor's ionised trail. When a meteor strikes earth's atmosphere, a cylindrical region of free electrons is formed at the height of the E layer. This slender, ionised column is relatively long, and when first formed is sufficiently dense to reflect...
The 340 - 760 metre wide asteroid 1999 GS6 will make a close pass (43.5 lunar distances, 0.1118 AU), travelling at 11.71 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th March, 2012 @ 03:18 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (...
Maxima of long period variable RR Persei on the 21st December, 2011. Magnitude: 9.2-14.4 Period: 389.62 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 02 28 28.730 | Dec. +51° 16' 21.13'' Google earth file: RR Persei.kmz (1kb, kmz)
New minor planet discovered at Baldone Observatory in Latvia A new minor planet has been discovered in Latvia for the first time at the Baldone Observatory using a Schmidt Telescope, LETA was informed by the University of Latvia's press centre. [url=http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/Technol...
An advanced military communications satellite is a step closer to launch now that engineers have finished installing it in the nosecone of the rocket that will loft it into orbit. The U.S. Air Force's fourth Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft is slated to launch Jan. 19 on a United Launch Alliance De...
A Chang Zheng-4B rocket body that was launched on the 9th November, 2011, from the Taiyaun Space Centre, for the YaoGan Weixing-12 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 7th December, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.CZ-4B RB
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Orbital elements:
2011 YW1 Earth MOID = 0.2385 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 31.51277 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.40638353 Peri. 8.79305 -0.10381376 -0.81372578
a 1.8051445 Node 88.75100 +0.87420719 -0.34887750
e 0.3248667 Incl. 34.89253 +0.47432531 +0.46490305
P 2.43 H 19.7 G 0.1...
Title: The Mass and Radius of the Neutron Star in 4U 1820-30 Authors: Tolga Guver, Patricia Wroblewski, Larry Camarota, Feryal Ozel We report on the measurement of the mass and radius of the neutron star in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1820-30. The analysis of the spectroscopic data on multiple ther...
