On 8-9 October 1806 Commodore Edward Owen attacked the French flotilla at Boulogne. Captain William Jackson of Musquito directed the boats firing 32 pounds (15 kg) Congreve rockets. As night drew in on the Channel, 24 cutters fitted with rocket frames formed a line and fired some 2,000 rockets at Bo...
Skywatchers See Meteor Break Up + Zenit Booster The night sky above Marshall Space Flight Centre, AL, on September 30th delivered a streaking meteor breaking up and the spent upper stage booster of a Russian intelligence satellite (launc...
Observers have announced the discovery of a spiral like tail around the main belt asteroid (596) Scheila. CBET 2583 (Subscription ) Asteroid (596) Scheila is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun. [url=http:...
Sea Launch AG will launch the Intelsat 18 (IS-18) communications satellite in the second half of 2011 under a contract with Intelsat, the worlds leading provider of fixed satellite services. Built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, IS-18 is one of ten STAR GEO communications satellites ordered by...
Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares VallisOraibi crater in Ares Vallis Newly released images taken by ESA's Mars Express show an unusual accumulation of young craters in the large outflow channel called Ares Vallis. Older craters have been reduced to ghostly outlines by the s...
Telesat's Anik F2 Satellite Experiences AnomalyToday at approximately 06:36 EDT Telesat's Anik F2 satellite experienced a technical anomaly that resulted in loss of satellite services to its customers. Telesat is in control of the satellite and all indications are that it is healthy and can be r...
Title: Implementation of PhotoZ under Astro-WISE - A photometric redshift code for large datasets Authors: R.P. Saglia, J. Snigula, R. Senger, R. Bender We describe the implementation of the PhotoZ code in the framework of the Astro-WISE package and as part of the Photometric Classification Ser...
Title: A multiwavelength study of the supernova remnant G296.8-0.3 Authors: E. Sánchez-Ayaso, J.A. Combi, J.F. Albacete Colombo, J. López-Santiago, J. Martí, A.J. Muñoz-Arjonilla We report XMM-Newton observations of the Galactic supernova remnant G296.8-0.3, together with complementar...
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Read more
The 220 - 500 metre wide asteroid 1998 UP1 will make a close pass (77.7 lunar distances, 0.1997 AU), travelling at 16.98 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th October, 2011 @ 18:39 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Orbital elements:
2011 TO6 Earth MOID = 0.0667 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 299.04527 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.73318819 Peri. 44.89886 +0.57815465 -0.81506537
a 1.2180331 Node 9.98338 +0.67465920 +0.45170651
e 0.1540517 Incl. 12.48969 +0.45888144 +0.36280805
P 1.34 H 26.3 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2011 TP6 Earth MOID = 0.0450 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 303.34608 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.65153609 Peri. 226.78241 +0.50406098 -0.86360828
a 1.3177825 Node 192.95969 +0.80495573 +0.47402637
e 0.2232384 Incl. 2.59707 +0.31299966 +0.17169664
P 1.51 H 25.5 G...
Indian Ocean tsunami warning system on test Oct 12 More than 20 nations will participate in a full-scale exercise on Oct 12 to test the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System. The "Exercise IOWAVE 11" will re-enact the events of Dec 26, 2004, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the...
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