Long period variable Z Lyrae Magnitude range: 10.1-14.8 Period: 291.7 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 18 59 36.8 | Dec +34° 57' 16'' Google earth file: Z Lyrae.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Maxima of long period variable RR Hydrae on the 30th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 9.3-14.4 Period: 343.49 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 09 44 58.967 | Dec -24° 01' 15.66'' Google earth file: RR Hydrae.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Maxima of long period variable V Geminorum on the 30th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 8.5-14.2 Period: 274.8 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 07 23 09.34860 | Dec +13° 06' 04.8193'' Google earth file: V Geminorum.kmz (1kb, kmz)
The 1783 New Jersey earthquake occurred on November 30, 1783 in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, it stands as the most powerful earthquake to occur in the state. Read more
Acharya Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, FRS (30 November 1858 - 23 November 1937) was a Bengali polymath: a physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction. Read more
Orbital elements:
2011 WR69 Earth MOID = 0.0387 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 259.82741 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.66258228 Peri. 75.55751 -0.71590769 -0.63827456
a 1.3030953 Node 63.92477 +0.45482314 -0.73385289
e 0.3586314 Incl. 18.36408 +0.52972832 -0.23251993
P 1.49 H 24.6 G...
Sometime within the next few weeks NASA Ames Research Centre plans to launch a "nano-sail" as a piggy-back payload on the Falcon launch vehicle a private booster designed and built by Planetary Society Board Member Elon Musk's SpaceX corporation. This small sail, developed by NASAs Ma...
These webcams use a Sony ICX098BQ CCD image sensor chip. They have superb sensitivity (<1 lux) in low light conditions. This combination of low light sensitivity and high quality electronics makes these excellent webcams for lunar and planetary astrophotography. Converting them for astro...
David H. Levy Logbooks In a characteristic act of generosity, Dr. David Levy has donated a digital facsimile of his complete personal observational archive to the RASC, to be made available to all those interested in astronomy and Dr. Levy's stellar career and achievements. [url=http://www.ras...
A Delta-2 rocket body that was launched on the 28th October, 2011, from the Vandenberg military air base in California, for the NPP Satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 19th November, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.DELTA 2 RB
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Title: GRB 081029: A Gamma-Ray Burst with a Multi-Component Afterglow Authors: Stephen T. Holland, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Jirong Mao, Takanori Sakamoto, Patricia Schady, Stefano Covino, Yi-Zhong Fan, Zhi Ping Jin, Paolo D'Avanzo, Angelo Antonelli, Valerio D'Elia, Guido Chincarini, Fab...
Title: DARWIN Authors: Marc Schumann (DARWIN consortium) DARWIN is a design-study for a next-to-next generation experiment to directly detect WIMP dark matter in a detector based on a liquid xenon/liquid argon two-phase time projection chamber. This article describes the project, its goals a...
Parts of Scotland affected by severe flooding Many parts of central and southern Scotland have been affected by flooding. The worst affected areas include Stirling, Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire. See more
The Leiden Sphere, a mechanical armillary sphere or orrery, was built around 1670 by the clockmaker Steven Tracy, for the mayor of Rotterdam. It is among the earliest and most elaborate mechanical planetaria to be operated by a clockwork mechanism. The device depicts the Copernican solar syste...
Pasadena GalleryNovember 30, 2011 -February 9, 2012 (Gallery closed for the holidays, Dec 17 - Jan 8) The Shape of the Universe is an exhibition of deep space photography, curated by artist David Em. The exhibition features recent images captured by NASA's Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra space tel...
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