A SL-4 rocket body that was launched on the 14th November, 2011, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, for the Soyuz TMA-22 mission re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 16th November, 2011 @ 18:56 GMT ± 1 minute.SL-4 RB
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Orbital elements: 2011 CE50 Earth MOID = 0.1527 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 223.09395 (2000.0) P Q n 0.97071685 Peri. 151.01444 +0.35176068 +0.92073459 a 1.0102007 Node 138.92741 -0.90075047 +0.38202461 e 0.1885695 Incl. 14.89239 -0.25478033 -0.07940414 P 1.02 H 23.2 G 0.15 U 8...
The 660-meter asteroid 2008 WZ13 was discovered on 20 November by the Mount Lemmon Survey. Orbital elements: 2008 WZ13 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0264 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 253.54152 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46446789 Peri. 152.15493 -0.90342815 +0.41137887 a 1.6513238 Node 52.65047 -0.4...
Cosmic particle accelerators get things going ESA's Cluster satellites have discovered that cosmic particle accelerators are more efficient than previously thought. The discovery has revealed the initial stages of acceleration for the first time, a process that could apply across the Unive...
A possible magnitude 15.5 supernova was discovered on the 12th November, 2011, in the spiral galaxy PGC 070094 (IC 5267) in the constellation Grus, by S Parker. The supernova is located 20" west and 41" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA...
Bulgarian archaeological site destroyed by bulldozers An archaeological site in Bulgaria, including remnants of a village said to date back 8000 years, has been destroyed by bulldozers, allegedly the work of a construction company building part of a new road from Bulgaria to Greece. The destru...
Mysterious Symbols in China Desert Are Spy Satellite Targets Newfound Google Maps images have revealed an array of mysterious structures and patterns etched into the surface of China's Gobi Desert. The media - from mainstream to fringe - has wildly speculated that they might be Chinese weapons-t...
UK's longest cave system linked Britain's longest network of underground caves, between Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has been linked up after years of hard work. See more The Caves under and around Ease Gill on the Cumbria/Lancash...
It is almost certain there'll be a gap in the acquisition of civilian US polar satellite meteorological data at the end of this decade. Europe is very keen not to get itself into a similar situation. Fortunately, it has two spare Metop-class spacecraft already built, and can stagger their launch to e...
Title: Implications of the non-detection of X-ray emission from HD 149427 Authors: Matthias Stute (1), Gerardo J. M. Luna (2,3) ((1) Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany (2) Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio, San Juan, Argentina (3) Harvard-Smithsonian...
The Conception Junction pallasite was discovered in 2006, but it was not until 2009, when Karl Aston became the first person to confirm the stone's meteoric origin. A Missouri native, Aston had engaged in an ad campaign throughout parts of his home state's farmland and positively identified the me...
Title: Discovery of a Wolf-Rayet Star Through Detection of its Photometric Variability Authors: Colin Littlefield, Peter Garnavich, G. H. Howie Marion, Jozsef Vinko, Colin McClelland, Terrence Rettig, J. Craig Wheeler We report the serendipitous discovery of a heavily reddened Wolf-Rayet s...
Title: PG1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary Authors: J. Deca, T. R. Marsh, R. H. Ostensen, L. Morales-Rueda, C. M. Copperwheat, R. A. Wade, M. A. Stark, P. F. L. Maxted, G. Nelemans, U. Heber About 50% of all known hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) reside in close (short period) binaries, for whi...
Title: Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Dragonfish Association: The Galaxy's Most Luminosity OB Association Authors: Mubdi Rahman, Dae-Sik Moon, Christopher D. Matzner Young OB associations with masses greater than 10^4 solar masses have been inferred to exist in the Galaxy but have largel...
