Military satellite delayed again by a year Top defence officials admit the much-awaited launch of the naval communication and surveillance satellite, "Rohini", has been once again delayed by a year or so. Satellites for Army-IAF will only follow thereafter. Incidentally, during th...
Opportunity with the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope As part of its restructuring of telescope operations on La Palma, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom announces its intention to make the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (JKT) available free of charge to a suitable...
The Miracle of the Sun (Portuguese: O Milagre do Sol) was an event on 13 October 1917 in which 30,000 to 100,000 people, who were gathered near Fátima, Portugal, claimed to have witnessed extraordinary solar activity. Read more
Peter Barlow (13 October 1776 - 1 March 1862) was an English mathematician and physicist. Barlow made an important contribution to astronomy by inventing, in collaboration with optician George Dollond, the Barlow lens, an achromatic telescope lens in which two glass layers enclosed a colourles...
In ancient Roman religion, Fontus or Fons (plural Fontes, "Font" or "Source") was a god of wells and springs. A religious festival called the Fontinalia was held on October 13 in his honour. Throughout the city, fountains and wellheads were adorned with garlands. Read more
China's Long March-III2 rocket carrier sent a French-made telecom satellite into preset orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre Friday afternoon. Read more (subscription) [url=http://www.tmc...
G299.2-2.9: A Middle-Aged Supernova Remnant G299.2-2.9 is an intriguing supernova remnant found about 16,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy . Evidence points to G299.2-2.9 being the remains of a Type Ia supernova, where a white dwarf has grown sufficiently massive to cause a thermonuc...
Time capsule buried under The Francis Crick Institute A time capsule was buried yesterday under the site of The Francis Crick Institute by Francis Crick's daughter Gabrielle. The burial at the site in St Pancras and Somers Town in London was witnessed by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the scienc...
Apple has released iTunes 4.8 for download: (21mb) Download available for Windows 2000 or XP and Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later. This latest version of iTunes supp...
The 67 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2002 AB2 will make a close pass (57.5 lunar distances, 0.1479 AU), travelling at 10.15 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st January, 2012 @ 11:26 UT ±2 days 22:34. See moreThe Lunar...
Orbital elements:
2011 SS25 Earth MOID = 0.0906 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 316.70305 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.44673608 Peri. 108.49397 -0.55705467 -0.81336684
a 1.6947359 Node 18.54708 +0.40948257 -0.44469116
e 0.6768409 Incl. 31.81854 +0.72250545 -0.37507885
P 2.21 H 17.9...
Orbital elements:
2011 SF108 Earth MOID = 0.1879 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 23.48436 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.32085719 Peri. 282.33269 +0.33059238 +0.94366519
a 2.1131396 Node 7.02187 -0.81403930 +0.29278584
e 0.4517748 Incl. 6.72089 -0.47754444 +0.15418321
P 3.07 H 20.5 G 0...
New Mystery on Mars' Forgotten Plains One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planets history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades of assumptions regarding the wide, flat Hesperia Planum are no...
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