Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 20 November 1924) is a French and American mathematician, best known as the father of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Centre; and Battelle Fellow at t...
Zarya (Russian: dawn), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB (from the Russian, Funktsionalno-gruzovoy blok or ), was the first module of the International Space Station to be launched. Zarya was launched on November 20, 1998 on a Russian Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81 in...
William Weber Coblentz (November 20, 1873 - September 15, 1962) was an American physicist notable for his contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy. Read more
Orbital elements:
2011 WU4 Earth MOID = 0.0834 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 310.91234 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.72 H 22.5 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2011 WQ4 Earth MOID = 0.0018 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 316.83869 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.4746601 Incl. 0.26016 +0.39340724 +0.02853350
P 2.47 H 26.9 G...
Orbital elements:
2011 WP4 Earth MOID = 0.0037 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 273.32273 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.58 H 26.7 G...
A possible magnitude 15.8 variable object was discovered on the 18th November, 2011, in the constellation Auriga, by J. Vales (Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia). Position (2000): RA 06 11 28.00 | Dec +40° 41' 08.7"
Imagine over 100 years of scientific digs into the foundations of Minoan Crete, and we knew nothing of how Minoan people reckoned the days of the year and the flow of time. No advanced and prosperous society could manage its agriculture, foreign trade and ritual life without a calendar. And yet, till...
Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple, a cult led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a near...
Orbital elements:
2011 WV2 Earth MOID = 0.3536 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 1.01263 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.1888685 Incl. 22.77764 +0.30457087 +0.21193933
P 1.95 H 20.4 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 WU2 Earth MOID = 0.1314 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 323.78948 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.78214903 Peri. 146.28453 +0.91891015 -0.39214025
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e 0.0352888 Incl. 2.92857 +0.18252278 +0.32653584
P 1.26 H 24.9 G...
Orbital elements:
2011 WT2 Earth MOID = 0.1676 AU
Epoch 2011 Nov. 15.0 TT = JDT 2455880.5 MPC
M 0.13000 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.7740636 Incl. 14.81819 +0.26319927 +0.07298702
P 11.6 H 21.7 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 VP12 Earth MOID = 0.1082 AU
Epoch 2011 Nov. 15.0 TT = JDT 2455880.5 MPC
M 1.31078 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.32974196 Peri. 159.67755 +0.78959952 -0.60038658
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e 0.4745243 Incl. 8.60940 +0.29090761 +0.18437155
P 2.99 H 20.9 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 WR2 Earth MOID = 0.0395 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 221.83780 (2000.0) P Q
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a 1.0829000 Node 233.61672 +0.28585806 -0.91945225
e 0.3936574 Incl. 12.55266 -0.09470606 -0.30747069
P 1.13 H 25.3...
