NASA's New Upper Stage Engine Passes Major Test NASA conducted a successful 500-second test firing of the J-2X rocket engine on Wednesday, Nov. 9, marking another important step in development of an upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS). [url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqn...
Powerful storm heading toward coastal Alaska Western Alaska residents braced for an unusual Bering Sea storm headed toward the coast, packing hurricane-force winds and churning giant waves. The storm was lashing parts of the shoreline with winds in excess of 80 mph late Tuesday, said Neil Muraka...
The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) Deep from outer space, a huge meteorite crash lands in rural Wisconsin, spraying the countryside with millions of strange, brown, coconut-sized spheres. Stars: Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale and Robert Eas...
Randy Korotev has spent his life seeking meteorites, but has found meteor-wrongs are a lot more common. Korotev, a lunar geochemist, will speak about lunar meteorites at the 53rd annual William Thomas Jackson Lecture in Science at 7:30 p.m. April 2 in Becker Auditorium in the Cerf Center at Eureka C...
Berkeley Lab-founded Program Brings Astronomy to Africa Susan Murabana majored in economics, but science is her true calling, or more specifically, science education and outreach. She loves nothing more than inspiring young people to engage in science and discover new concepts. So when she cam...
The 39 - 86 metre wide asteroid 2010 WU8 will make a close pass (30.2 lunar distances, 0.0776 AU), travelling at 7.91 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th January, 2012 @ 17:36 UT ±00:34. See moreThe Lunar Distan...
Rujm el-Hiri (Arabic: Rujm al-Hirr, also Romanised as Rujm Hiri or Rujum al-Hiri; Hebrew: Gilgal Refaim or Galgal Refaim) is an ancient megalithic monument consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus at center Read more R...
The 110 - 250 metre wide asteroid 2007 MR will make a close pass (77.6 lunar distances, 0.1995 AU), travelling at 5.93 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th December, 2010 @ 10:32 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD...
Orbital elements:
2011 FC29 Earth MOID = 0.1144 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 116.65515 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.83117264 Peri. 357.22477 +0.94526359 -0.32336055
a 1.1203195 Node 21.79805 +0.30160522 +0.81463124
e 0.4425358 Incl. 6.76729 +0.12454328 +0.48147055
P 1.19 H 20.9 G 0...
The 360 - 790 metre wide asteroid 2008 EP6 will make a close pass (23.6 lunar distances, 0.0605 AU), travelling at 12.72 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st February, 2012 @ 00:08 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Dis...
Second Life (SL) is a privately owned, partly subscription-based 3-D virtual world, made publicly available in 2003 by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, and founded by former RealNetworks CTO Philip Rosedale. The Second Life "world" resides in a large array of servers that are owned and maintaine...
Newzbin.com is a British Usenet indexing website notable for its introduction of new technologies and search techniques that aid users by facilitating access to content on Usenet. As of March 2010 Newzbin keeps its indexed reports for 240 days. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewzBin]Re...
A Chang Zheng-2F rocket body that was launched on the 31st October, 2011, from the Jiuquan lauinch site, for the Shenzhou-8 mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 8th November, 2011 @ 21:54 GMT ± 16 hours.CZ-2F RB
1 37860U 11063B 11311.82077971 .03786817 88434-5 53152-3 3...
Title: Why are central radio relics so rare? Authors: F. Vazza, M. Brueggen, R. van Weeren, A. Bonafede, K. Dolag, G. Brunetti In this paper we address the question why cluster radio relics that are connected to shock acceleration, so-called radio gischt, have preferentially been found in the outs...
Title: The variability of the CoRoT target HD171834: gamma Dor pulsations and/or activity? Authors: K. Uytterhoeven, P. Mathias, A. Baglin, M. Rainer, E. Poretti, P. Amado, E. Chapellier, L. Mantegazza, K. Pollard, J. C. Suarez, P. M. Kilmartin, K. H. Sato, R. A. Garcia, M. Auvergne, E. Michel, R....