Title: The Optical Orbital Light Curve of the Low-mass X-ray Binary V1408 Aquilae (= 4U 1957+115) Authors: Amanda J. Bayless, Edward L. Robinson, Paul A. Mason, Paul Robertson (Version v3) V1408 Aql (= 4U 1957+115) is a low-mass X-ray binary with an orbital period near 9.3 hr, whose compact star is a...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is joining forces with Utah's original corn maze, Cornbelly's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Fest, for a kickoff celebration on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. John Callas, project manger for NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers at JPL, will appear at the grand opening festivities of an aut...
Orbital elements:
2011 SA121 Earth MOID = 0.0665 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 358.74450 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.57177342 Peri. 147.39587 +0.90323962 +0.42612154
a 1.4376508 Node 187.90019 -0.42798464 +0.90315048
e 0.2798412 Incl. 21.68174 +0.03142203 +0.05234151
P 1.72 H 24...
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. First broadcast on ATV Midlands between September 1967 and May 1968,...
James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Read more...
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A possible magnitude 15.8 supernova was discovered on the 21st September, 2011, in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 644 in the constellation Phoenix. The supernova is located 18" east and 2" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 01 38 54.59 | ...
Alouette 1 was Canada's first satellite, and the first satellite constructed by a country other than the USSR or the United States. Alouette 1 was launched by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from the Pacific Missile Range from Vandenberg AFB, California a...
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Chemists at the University of Virginia have prepared the first uranium methylidyne molecule ever reported, despite the reactivity of uranium atoms with other molecules. This new molecule is a hydrocarbon containing a uranium-carbon triple-bond. Their finding, which contributes to chemists...
ESA satellites flying in formation Based on the outstanding success of the first tandem mission between ERS-2 and Envisat last year, ESA has paired the two satellites together again to help improve our understanding of the planet. ERS-2, ESAs veteran spacecraft, and Envisat, the largest enviro...
Western partners with NASA to uncover new hypothesis on crater debris A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta - debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite impacts. These findings may help scie...
Mysterious 'space object' recovered in Meghalaya An unidentified space object suspected to have fallen from the sky was recovered Tuesday from a flower bed of St Edmunds' College here in Shillong. The mysterious object, somewhat resembling a propeller of some craft, is now in the custody of the po...
