Orbital elements:
2011 SL189 Earth MOID = 0.0381 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 340.07338 (2000.0) P Q
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a 2.3498710 Node 347.97161 +0.70282121 +0.57454680
e 0.5650046 Incl. 1.39146 +0.32827027 +0.26115621
P 3.60 H 24.9...
Orbital elements:
2011 SH189 Earth MOID = 0.1079 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 311.18381 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.72637796 Peri. 216.80161 +0.76995777 -0.63807415
a 1.2256344 Node 182.86255 +0.60722306 +0.73515732
e 0.1062210 Incl. 5.90646 +0.19607443 +0.22892160
P 1.36 H 24....
Orbital elements:
2011 SK189 Earth MOID = 0.1111 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 348.31851 (2000.0) P Q
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a 1.7467137 Node 7.35443 +0.06573595 +0.62697411
e 0.3633544 Incl. 27.80134 -0.01360840 +0.77843532
P 2.31 H 23.9...
A US "atom smasher" may get three more years of life in order to continue its hunt for the so-called God particle. The Tevatron accelerator could now remain operational until 2014, as physicists there now think the Higgs boson is within their reach. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sc...
Title: Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of Abell 0671 Authors: Zhizheng Pan, Qirong Yuan, Xu Kong, Dongxin Fan, Xu Zhou, Xuanbin Lin In this paper we present a photometric and spectroscopic study of the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 0671 (A671) with 15 intermediate-band filters in the Beijing-...
Orbital elements:
2011 SM173 Earth MOID = 0.0019 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 343.00074 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25115739 Peri. 233.67960 +0.59898534 -0.80075998
a 2.4879334 Node 179.52308 +0.73938802 +0.55301817
e 0.6460593 Incl. 0.85601 +0.30744419 +0.23011811
P 3.92 H 27....
Russia has successfully test-fired a new submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Read more The R-29RMU Sineva ("blueness"), also designated RSM...
Title: SDSS J163030.58+423305.8: A 40 minute Orbital Period Detached White Dwarf Binary Authors: Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, J. J. Hermes, Carlos Allende Prieto, S. J. Kenyon, D. E. Winget, K. I. Winget We report the discovery of a new detached, double white dwarf system with an orbital perio...
Title: HIP 38939B: A New Benchmark T Dwarf in the Galactic Plane Discovered with Pan-STARRS1Authors: Niall R. Deacon (1), Michael C. Liu (1), Eugene A. Magnier (1), Brendan P. Bowler (1), Joshua Redstone (2), Bertrand Goldman (3), W. S. Burgett (1), K. C. Chambers (1), H. Flewelling (1), N. Kaiser (...
NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept Studies NASA has selected 11 science proposals, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the Earth's atmosphere, the sun, the Mi...
NASA Media Telecon To Announce Technology Demonstration Missions NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 22, to announce proposals selected in the agency's Technology Demonstration Mission program. These crosscutting technology demonstrations were selected bec...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for four craters on Mars. Palikir for a 21.5-km-wide Martian crater located at -41.6°S, 202.16°E. The feature was named in honour of the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia. Corozal for a 10.4-km-wide Martian crater loc...
Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm "Gengar" Geiger (September 30, 1882 - September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. He is perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger-Marsden experiment which discovered the Atomic nucleus. Read more
Jean Baptiste Perrin (30 September 1870 - 17 April 1942) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. After Albert Einstein published (1905) his theoretical explanation of Brownian motion in terms of atoms, Perrin did the experimental work to test and verify Einstein's predictions, thereby settl...
