Maxima of long period variable RT Pegasi on the 23rd November, 2011 Magnitude range: 9.9-14.5 Period: 215 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 22 04 10.21 | Dec +35° 07' 18.5'' Google earth file: RT Pegasi.kmz (1kb, kmz)
The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Scouting Red Beds for Uncommon Features with Geological Significance.Authors: Patrick C. McGuire, Enrique Diaz-Martinez, Jens Ormo, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Jose A. Rodriguez-Manfredi, Eduardo Sebastian-Martinez, Helge Ritter, Robert H...
A SL-16 rocket body that was launched on the 8th November, 2011, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, for the Phobos-Grunt mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on (or after) the 14th November, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± - hours.SL-16 RB
1 37873U 11065B 11316.57214568 .00746726 11593-4 51316...
Suspected group of at least 7 impact craters in Quillagua, Chile. Quillagua crater Quillagua is in Guinness World Records as the "driest place" for 37 years, yet it prospered off the Loa River, reaching a population of 800 by the...
A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred at 19:26:49 (UTC) on Thursday, November 17, 2005, in Potosi, Bolivia, at a hypocentral depth estimated to be 105 km, 110 km East of Calama, Chile.
Location 22.363°S, 67...
Orbital elements:
2011 WK14 Earth MOID = 0.0988 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 20.36375 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.41088871 Peri. 110.28020 +0.67888903 +0.73376588
a 1.7919253 Node 202.54337 -0.69673943 +0.63245104
e 0.3935681 Incl. 3.94954 -0.23165458 +0.24817998
P 2.40 H 20.6 G...
NASA's Hubble Finds Stellar Life and Death in a Globular Cluster A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that can be s...
Two Asteroids to Pass by Earth Near-Earth asteroid 2010 RX30 is estimated to be 32 to 65 feet (10 to 20 meters) in size and will pass within 0.6 lunar distances of Earth (about 154,000 miles, or 248,000 kilometres) at 2:51 a.m. PDT (5:51 a.m. EDT) Wednesday. The second object, 2010 RF12, estimated to be...
European funding agencies push forward large astroparticle physics projects European funding agencies welcomed today the priorities for the future of astroparticle physics defined by the scientific community, and accepted the recommendations included in the newly published update of the E...
Title: Results of Long-Term Observations of the Maser Emission Source W44C (G34.3+0.15) in the OH and H2O Radio Lines Authors: E. E. Lekht, M. I. Pashchenko, G. M. Rudnitskii Results of monitoring the H_2O and OH masers in W44C, located near the cometary HII region G34.3+0.15, are reported. Observ...
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Title: Discovery of the nearby long, soft GRB 100316D with an associated supernova Authors: R.L.C. Starling (U. Leicester), K. Wiersema, A.J. Levan, T. Sakamoto, D. Bersier, P. Goldoni, S.R. Oates, A. Rowlinson, S. Campana, J. Sollerman, N.R. Tanvir, D. Malesani, J.P.U. Fynbo, S. Covino, P. D'A...
The Soyuz TMA-02M/27S undocked from the ISS at 23:00 UT, 21st November, 2011. The spacecraft is scheduled to land in Kazakhstan at 2:25 UT. The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft carrying the Expedition 28 crew to the ISS launched on the 7th June, 2011. Soyuz TMA-02M Undocking from ISS- November 21, 2011 [sp...
Radioactive particles has been found buried underneath a beach in Fife which has been cordoned off for a month. The foreshore at Dalgety Bay was closed after tests carried out over the weekend of October 8 and 9 found high levels of radiation. Since then, worked from the Scottish Environment Protect...
Orbital elements:
2011 RC17
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 356.38280 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.06169726 Peri. 194.08376 +0.68512878 -0.72059472
a 6.3429626 Node 212.87212 +0.68586932 +0.68741208
e 0.5397917 Incl. 11.31561 +0.24531986 +0.09059733
P 15.97 H 15.1 G 0.15 U 3 MPEC 2011 -...