During the American revolutionary war, the first American solar eclipse expedition was organized and sent out from Harvard College in Massachusetts. A special immunity agreement was negotiated with the British to allow the scientists to work unharmed. The Harvard expedition, after all their e...
The 230 - 520 metre wide asteroid 2005 CJ will make a close pass (32.2 lunar distances, 0.0827 AU), travelling at 9.87 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th October, 2011 @ 16:03 UT ±1 day 03:27. See moreThe Lunar Di...
Orbital elements:
2011 UL147 Earth MOID = 0.2230 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 328.65099 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29756874 Peri. 198.01107 +0.34124431 -0.93789551
a 2.2220023 Node 232.08293 +0.87185874 +0.34065989
e 0.4559844 Incl. 4.54285 +0.35130423 +0.06559615
P 3.31 H 21....
Orbital elements:
2011 UB131 Earth MOID = 0.1287 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 332.87922 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.23136508 Peri. 124.43462 -0.63936023 -0.76857636
a 2.6278718 Node 5.47593 +0.60484994 -0.52084074
e 0.7856669 Incl. 13.67351 +0.47473681 -0.37150411
P 4.26 H 21.9...
Hurricane Rina Caught on ISS Cameras External cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Rina at 2:39 p.m. EDT on Oct. 25, 2011, as the complex flew 248 miles over the Caribbean Sea east of Belize. The late season...
THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER OCTOBER 27 - 30 The largest student-organised space conference in the nation. Orchestrated by the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) as the SEDS-USA annual conference, the conference is dedicated to facilitating networking betwe...
Nasa simulates journey to an asteroid by rigging up giant rock underwater But, in reality, exploring a giant rock in outer space is likely to be somewhat more complicated. For this reason, a Nasa team is simulating a journey to an asteroid by heading underwater. The scientists and engineers are toda...
USC Scientist Cracks Mysterious Copiale Cipher The manuscript seems straight out of fiction: a strange, handwritten message in abstract symbols and Roman letters meticulously covering 105 yellowing pages hidden in the depths of an academic archive. Now, more than three centuries after it was d...
Title: CoRoT's view on variable B8/9 stars: spots versus pulsations: Evidence for differential rotation in HD 174648 Authors: P. Degroote, B. Acke, R. Samadi, C. Aerts, D.W. Kurtz, A. Noels, A. Miglio, J. Montalban, S. Bloemen, A. Baglin, F. Baudin, C. Catala, E. Michel, M. Auvergne Context. Ther...
Title: Evidence for a compact Wolf-Rayet progenitor for the Type Ic supernova PTF 10vgv Authors: A. Corsi, E. O. Ofek, A. Gal-Yam, D. A. Frail, D. Poznanski, P. A. Mazzali, S. R. Kulkarni, M. M. Kasliwal, I. Arcavi, S. Ben-Ami, S. B. Cenko, A. V. Filippenko, D. B. Fox, A. Horesh, J. L. Howell, I. K. W. Kle...
This image of two bright emission nebulas nicknamed Heart and Soul can be found in the constellation Cassiopeia. The Heart Nebula, officially dubbed IC 1805 (on the right), has a shape reminiscent of a classical heart symbol.
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Historic science papers go online One of the world's oldest scientific institutions is marking the start of its 350th year by putting 60 of its most memorable research papers online. The Royal Society, founded in London in 1660, is making public manuscripts by figures like Sir Isaac Newton. [url=h...
The 33 - 74 metre wide asteroid 2006 SP19 will make a close pass (36.0 lunar distances, 0.0924 AU), travelling at 10.13 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th October, 2011 @ 22:06 UT ±02:29. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
The 120 - 280 metre wide asteroid 1993 VD will make a close pass (35.1 lunar distances, 0.0902 AU), travelling at 19.58 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th October, 2011 @ 23:43 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
