The 140 - 300 metre wide asteroid 2006 WO3 will make a close pass (60.8 lunar distances, 0.1563 AU), travelling at 13.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st December, 2011 @ 16:45 UT ±01:42. See moreThe Lunar Dis...
Title: The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia Authors: Jeffrey I. Rose, Vitaly I. Usik, Anthony E. Marks, Yamandu H. Hilbert, Christopher S. Galletti, Ash Parton, Jean Marie Geiling, Viktor Cernư, Mike W. Morley, Richard G. Roberts Despite the...
Orbital elements:
2011 WR74
Epoch 2011 Nov. 15.0 TT = JDT 2455880.5 MPC
M 2.71461 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.03541427 Peri. 276.06672 +0.62002404 -0.77317109
a 9.1836895 Node 134.69339 +0.77339419 +0.57369580
e 0.4279665 Incl. 10.81012 +0.13202883 +0.27033238
P 27.8 H 15.3 G 0.15
From 13 observa...
Orbital elements:
2011 WS74 Earth MOID = 0.0169 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 182.89432 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.02990547 Peri. 117.83726 -0.97212144 +0.08164933
a 0.9711161 Node 67.55832 -0.17880701 -0.86455189
e 0.3505901 Incl. 13.75748 +0.15168377 -0.49586632
P 0.96 H 23.8...
The search for life across interstellar space will still not be easy, and even the most advanced telescope on the drawing boards will have to work hard to suss it out, so it will be key to choose the best possible targets. That's the reasoning behind a new paper in the journal Astrobiology in which envir...
Russia's Glonass-M satellite put into orbit Russia sent another Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit on Monday, said Alexei Zolotukhin, spokesman of Russian Space Forces. The Soyuz with the satellite on board was launched from the Plesetsk space centre earlier in the day. [url=http://ri...
A possible magnitude 15.5 supernova was discovered on the 27th November, 2011, in the spiral galaxy NGC 3354 in the constellation Antlia. The supernova is located 1" East and 8" South from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 10 43 02.95 | Dec -36° 2...
Investigators Recover RL-10 Rocket Engine In July 2011, the NASA OIG recovered a Pratt & Whitney RL-10 rocket engine valued at approximately $200,000 that had been advertised for sale on an Internet auction site. The owner advised investigators that he purchased the engine from an individu...
New Ice Patrol ship HMS Protector heads for the frozen south HMS Protector The Royal Navy's new ice patrol ship, HMS Protector, left Portsmouth earlier this week (Monday 28 November) for an eight-month deployment surveying and patrolling the seas around Antarctica. [url=http://www.antarctic...
Title: The magnetosphere of the ultracool dwarf DENIS 1048-3956 Authors: V. Ravi, G. Hallinan, G. Hobbs, D. J. Champion Ultracool dwarfs, the least-massive contributors to the stellar mass function, exhibit striking magnetic properties that are inconsistent with trends for more massive star...
Tucked away in the northwest corner of Weston is a quiet, unassuming building that is part of a global network tracking changes and movements below the Earth's surface. The Weston Observatory does not, contrary to first impressions, track the stars in the sky. "Our primary focus today, here a...
Science pubs create lively intellectual exchange Allen Sanderson invited his audience in the banquet room at Grady's Grille in Homewood one evening last September to treat his presentation as a seminar in economics at the University of Chicago. He welcomed interruptions and even rudeness, but d...
Documentary following manufacturer Astrium as they assemble one of the most complicated machines in the world, a state-of-the-art communication satellite. See more
Maxima of long period variable R Capricorni on the 30th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 10.6-13.6 Period: 345.13 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 20 11 18.34 | Dec -14° 16' 03.3'' Google earth file: R Capricorni.kmz (1kb, kmz)
