Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 - October 28, 1916) was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones. While director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio, he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps, and weather forecasts. Read more
Ellis Astronomical Observatory at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, NJ The Ellis Astronomical Observatory is on the grounds of the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Located in rural Sussex County, the observatory offers excell...
Mysterious Metal Object Crashes Through Roof of Mass. Warehouse A three-pound piece of metal was found lying on the floor of a Massachusetts warehouse on Thursday (Dec. 1). What made this remarkable was the gaping hole discovered directly above it in the roof. [url=http://www.livescience.com/...
Orbital elements:
2011 XF Earth MOID = 0.2737 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 323.28257 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30078571 Peri. 352.24525 +0.01450945 -0.99436302
a 2.2061308 Node 96.88031 +0.92297028 -0.02708435
e 0.4296235 Incl. 6.07289 +0.38459764 +0.10251157
P 3.28 H 22.7 G 0....
FLEX-ible Insight Into Flame Behaviour Whether free-burning or smouldering, uncontrolled fire can threaten life and destroy property. On Earth, a little water, maybe some chemicals, and the fire is smothered. In space, where there is no up or down, flames behave in unconventional ways. And when...
Mountains and buried ice on Mars New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future astronauts. Phlegra Montes is a range of gently curving mountains an...
Orbital elements:
2008 XF Earth MOID = 0.1997 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 255.09090 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.66170225 Peri. 243.81459 -0.51600583 -0.82950771
a 1.3042504 Node 238.89057 +0.84764857 -0.45854352
e 0.1370399 Incl. 14.45157 +0.12340942 -0.31883351
P 1.49 H 23.4 G...
A Proton-M rocket with a Block DM upper stage is scheduled to launch three Kosmos (Glonass-M) navigation satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 12:55 GMT, 3rd November, 2011.
A Long March 2C rocket with the Yaogan Weixing-13 satellite was successfully launched from the Taiyuan launch site at 18:50 GMT (2:50 a.m. Beijing time) 29th November, 2011.1 37941U 11072A 11333.89208307 .00000000 00000-0 00000+0 16
2 37941 097.2769 277.5360 0126802 315.2461 043.9170 15.42...
Title: First detection of period doubling in a BL Herculis type star. Observations and theoretical models Authors: R. Smolec, I. Soszynski, P. Moskalik, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, R. Poleski, S. Kozlowski, P. Pietrukowicz We report on the...
Title: Characterising the Cool KOIs II. The M Dwarf KOI-254 and its Hot Jupiter Authors: John Asher Johnson, J. Zachary Gazak, Kevin Apps, Philip S. Muirhead, Justin R. Crepp, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Tabetha Boyajian, Kaspar von Braun, Barbara Rojas-Ayala, Andrew W. Howard, Kevin R. Covey, Everett...
Title: An unusual stellar death on Christmas Day Authors: C. C. Thöne, A. de Ugarte Postigo, C. L. Fryer, K. L. Page, J. Gorosabel, D. A. Perley, C. Kouveliotou, H. T. Janka, M. A. Aloy, P. Mimica, J. L. Racusin, H. Krimm, J. Cummings, S. R. Oates, S. T. Holland, M. H. Siegel, M. De Pasquale, E. Sonbas, M. I...
140 mph gusts cause damage, outages, delays in California Wind gusts stronger than 140 mph -- which would be equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane -- have been measured on the Sierra Crest mountain ridge, according to the National Weather Service. [url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/01/us/ca...
