Bronze Age hoard found in Manorbier, Pembrokeshire A collection of Bronze Age artefacts found by a man with a metal detector in a Pembrokeshire field may end up at the National Museum Wales. The tools, a weapon, and other items which were found by Gavin Palmer near Manorbier have been declared treasu...
The M25 motorway, or London Orbital, is a 188 km orbital motorway that almost encircles Greater London, England, in the United Kingdom. The road enjoyed a positive reputation among ravers in the late 1980s as the then new Orbital Motorway was a popular route to the parties that took place around the o...
The Progress M-10M/42P Soyuz U is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 13:05 GMT, 27th April, 2011.
a massive landslide on the ocean floor off Storegga, south-west Norway, triggered a 10-meter high tsunamis.
Radiocarbon dating of sediments taken from the coastline of eastern Scotland show that a giant wave flooded Scotland about 5,800 BC. At the time, Britain was joined to mainland Europe...
An ATLAS CENTAUR rocket body that was launched on the 31st October, 1980, from Cape Canaveral, for the classified US military OPS 6394 Fleet Satellite Communications (FLTSATCOM 4) mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 2nd November, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.ATLAS CENTAU...
13th century Mongolian wreckage discovered off Japanese seabed The vessel is the first of its kind to have been discovered relatively intact and dates from a series of attempts by Kublai Khan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, to subjugate Japan between 1274 and 1281. Researchers have previously only b...
Orbital elements:
2011 LB19 Earth MOID = 0.0746 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 24.89564 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.1498031 Incl. 24.82071 -0.59023974 -0.10741526
P 1.39 H 24.1 G...
Evidence of Macroscopic Quantum Tunnelling Detected in Nanowires A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has demonstrated that, counter to classical Newtonian mechanics, an entire collection of superconducting electrons in an ultrathin superconducting wire is able to "tun...
Orbital elements:
2011 UL169 Earth MOID = 0.0010 AU
Epoch 2011 Oct. 26.0 TT = JDT 2455860.5 MPC
M 20.76841 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.3787162 Incl. 6.82688 -0.01999923 +0.30886730
P 1.77 H 28.3...
Orbital elements:
2011 UJ169 Earth MOID = 0.0461 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 324.70175 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.64242675 Peri. 350.76891 +0.88987552 -0.44318353
a 1.3302103 Node 36.17121 +0.42938715 +0.73353720
e 0.2192691 Incl. 10.56487 +0.15410460 +0.51527812
P 1.53 H 25....
Orbital elements:
2011 UM169 Earth MOID = 0.0036 AU
Epoch 2011 Oct. 26.0 TT = JDT 2455860.5 MPC
M 20.63202 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.43461535 Peri. 114.76760 +0.82275544 +0.56556656
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e 0.5339172 Incl. 6.33542 -0.13062397 +0.28511748
P 2.27 H 24.9...
Ronald Greeley, a Regents' Professor of planetary geology at Arizona State University who has been involved in lunar and planetary studies since 1967 and has contributed significantly to our understanding of planetary bodies within our solar system, died Oct. 27, in Tempe. He was 72. [url=http:...
Online Database Of Molecular Spectra A database 18 years in the works promises to help scientists sort out the astronomical role of a giant class of organic molecules that permeate stars and dust throughout the universe. Developed by scientists at NASA's Ames Research Centre, in Mountain View, Ca...
