Title: The Stellar Populations and Structural Properties of Ultra Faint Dwarf Galaxies, Canes Venatici I, Bootes I, Canes Venatici II, and Leo IV Authors: Sakurako Okamoto, Nobuo Arimoto, Yoshihiko Yamada, Masato Onodera We take deep images of four ultra faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies, Canes Venat...
Title: Modulation of Circumstellar Extinction in a Young Binary System with a Low-Mass Companion in a Noncoplanar Orbit Authors: V.P. Grinin, T.V. Demidova, N.Ya. Sotnikova The cyclic activity model of a young star with the low-mass secondary component (q = M2/M1 <= 0.1) accreting a matter fr...
Title: Asteroseismology of the Kepler field DBV White Dwarf - It's a hot one! Authors: Agnés Bischoff-Kim, Roy H. Řstensen We present an asteroseismic analysis of the helium atmosphere white dwarf (a DBV) recently found in the field of view of the Kepler satellite. We analyse the 5-mode pulsation s...
Professor Matt Visser will be exploring some of the mysteries of the universe next year. The Victoria Professor from the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research was recently awarded one of four prestigious James Cook Research Fellowships providing funding of $110,000 a year f...
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (Beuxelles, 14 October 1801 - Ghent, 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist. He was the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this he used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regu...
Robert Simson (14 October 1687 - 1 October 1768) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. The pedal line of a triangle is sometimes called the "Simson line" after him. Read more
Ancient 'paint factory' unearthed The kits used by humans 100,000 years ago to make paint have been found at the famous archaeological site of Blombos Cave in South Africa. The hoard includes red and yellow pigments, shell containers, and the grinding cobbles and bone spatulas to work up a paste - ev...
An early Celtic "Stonehenge" discovered in the Black Forest A huge early Celtic calendar construction has been discovered in the royal tomb of Magdalenenberg, nearby Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest. This discovery was made by researchers at the Römisch-GermanischesPr...
From Craters to Carbon: USGS Science at GSA Thousands of geoscientists will visit Minneapolis this week to present new findings on a variety of topics at the Geological Society of America Meeting at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 9 - 12. Mysterious Fossils from the...
Orbital elements:
2011 SQ12 Earth MOID = 0.0947 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 327.26776 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.43387044 Peri. 40.27621 +0.65821297 -0.75196260
a 1.7280753 Node 8.77371 +0.61527106 +0.50963794
e 0.3974731 Incl. 13.71542 +0.43381703 +0.41811652
P 2.27 H 20.9 G 0...
Tasco 3.5" Catadioptric Telescope * Tasco 3.5" Catadioptric Telescope * Up to 200x magnification in a very compact telescope * Ideal for travelling and easy storage. * Focal Length: 600mm * Eyepieces 6mm and 20mm + 2x Barlow and photo adapter tube * Equatorial Mount * 16" metal trip...
Virtual atom smasher in LHC@Home 2.0 The developers hope LHC@Home 2.0 will be used for several research projects in the future. The first project, called Test4Theory, has been in the alpha testing phase since October 2010, and now has more than 100 volunteers just like De Bari. Even at this early sta...
Researchers have found evidence from an Ice Core of a Large Impact that occurred circa 1443 S.D.
Dallas Abbott of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) and her colleagues analysed melt water from nine samples taken from the West Antarctic Siple Dome ice core that date between 1440 and 14...