Arizona State University's Centre for Meteorite Studies marks 50 years For 50 years the Centre for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University has served as the intellectual hub for research on meteorites and other planetary materials. It is a place where scientists can conduct critical inqu...
Enrico Betti (21 October 1823 - 11 August 1892) was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. He worked also on the theory of equations, giving early expositions of Galois theory. He also discovered Bett...
Ronald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. (October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L. Read more
The 20 - 44 metre wide asteroid 2001 UP will make a close pass (44.7 lunar distances, 0.1149 AU), travelling at 11.55 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st October, 2011 @ 05:50 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 17:07:48 (UTC) on Sunday, October 15, 2006, in the Hawaii Islands region, about 14 km NNW of Kalaoa, Hawaii.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 24 km.
Location 19.842°N, 156.059°W
Title: Discovery of a Candidate for the Coolest Known Brown Dwarf Authors: K. L. Luhman, A. J. Burgasser, J. J. Bochanski We have used multi-epoch images from the Infrared Array Camera on board the Spitzer Space Telescope to search for substellar companions to stars in the solar neighbourhood base...
Title: Sub-millimetre images of a dusty Kuiper belt around eta Corvi Authors: Wyatt, M. C.; Greaves, J. S.; Dent, W. R. F.; Coulson, I. M. We present submillimetre and mid-IR images of the circumstellar disk around the nearby F2 V star Corvi. The disk is resolved at 850 m with a size of ~100 AU. At 450 m th...
Title: Discovery of a late L dwarf: Wisep J060738.65+242953.4 Authors: Philip J. Castro, John E. Gizis We discover a late-type L dwarf, WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 (W0607+2429), by comparing the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) preliminary data release to the Two Micron All Sky Surve...
Ardnamurchan Viking boat burial discovery 'a first' The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the north-west Highlands, archaeologists have said. The site, at Ardnamurchan, is thought to be more than 1,000 years old. Artefacts buried alongside the Vikin...
There’s been a prediction that the Matavanu volcano on Samoa’s Savaii island will erupt again in the next decade.
The volcano last erupted a century ago spewing lava for miles and nearly wiping out the entire population of villages bordering Saleaula.
Some of the villagers resettled in Leau...
Orbital elements:
2011 UK10 Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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P 1.39 H 25.4 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 UG10 Earth MOID = 0.0329 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 349.06522 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.85 H 25.1 G...
Orbital elements:
2011 UF10 Earth MOID = 0.0651 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 278.14436 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.47 H 23.4 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 UH10 Earth MOID = 0.0204 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 317.42361 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.77 H 27.1 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 UE10 Earth MOID = 0.0269 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 333.68561 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.10 H 26.0...
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