Loud "BOOM" Reported Across Laclede County Fort Leonard Wood answered numerous calls today (9-27) about a loud boom that was heard around 9:30 throughout Laclede County. According to Jeff Maddy, PIO for the Fort, some people even reported hearing it in Greene County. [url=http://a...
Orbital elements:
2011 HC36 Earth MOID = 0.0974 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2011 SZ120 Earth MOID = 0.3363 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 6.57768 (2000.0) P Q
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The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is testing two disaster-monitoring satellites at its Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. The NigeriaSat-2 and NX satellites are owned by the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) and will be used to monitor di...
Intelsat 2 F-4 (INTELSAT 204) was a COMSAT Corporation commercial communications satellite launched to provide 24-hour transoceanic service. Read more Launch Date: 1967-09-28
Free sky-gazing at Nebraska observatory to begin Free sky-gazing through powerful telescopes at the University of Nebraska Lincoln's Behlen Observatory will begin Sept. 25. Read more
Naval Research Laboratory engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was completed in May 2008. The launch date was fall 2009, however it was moved to August 2010 because o...
A Long March 3C rocket body that was launched on the 31st October, 2010, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, for the Beidou (Compass) G4 satellite mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 28th September, 2011 @ 05:32 GMT ± 48 hours.CZ-3C RB
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A University of Bristol student from the Faculty of Engineering has been named as one of the winners of the 2011 Science, Engineering & Technology [SET] Student of the Year awards. Stephen Thompson, from the University's Department of Civil Engineering, received the Laing O'Rourke Award for...
A piece of music composed by Beethoven in 1799 and lost for over 200 years has been painstakingly reconstructed by a Professor of Music at The University of Manchester. Professor Barry Coopers reconstruction of the original slow movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Opus 18 Number 2, will be...
Orbital elements:
2011 SE108 Earth MOID = 0.1477 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 336.29293 (2000.0) P Q
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P 4.16 H 21....
Orbital elements:
2011 SC108 Earth MOID = 0.0023 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 340.97217 (2000.0) P Q
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Title: A Disk Around the Planetary-Mass Companion GSC 06214-00210 b: Clues About the Formation of Gas Giants on Wide Orbits Authors: Brendan P. Bowler, Michael C. Liu, Adam L. Kraus, Andrew W. Mann, Michael J. Ireland We present Keck/OSIRIS 1.1-1.8 um adaptive optics integral field spectroscopy...
Title: The 2011 February superoutburst of the dwarf nova SDSS J112003.40+663632.4 Authors: Jeremy Shears, Steve Brady, Tom Krajci, Enrique de Miguel, Mike Potter, Richard Sabo, William Stein We report unfiltered photometry of SDSS J112003.40+663632.4 during the 2011 February outburst whic...
Orbital elements:
2011 SO5 Earth MOID = 0.0070 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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P 2.95 H 25.4 G...