Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948 - January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Read more
London Decompression 2011 is happening on Friday 21st October 2011. Read more A decompression party, decom or decomp is a local reunion for Burning Man participants to help ease themselves back into everyday society after the "big event"...
Orbital elements:
2011 KF4 Earth MOID = 0.1476 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2011 QD48 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0260 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2011 QF48 Earth MOID = 0.0068 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 13.62025 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.10 H 25.4...
Orbital elements:
2011 QE48 Earth MOID = 0.1333 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 1.67183 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.61 H 21.7 G...
Cardiff student discovers two new asteroids A stargazing schoolgirl made quite an impact on work experience when she discovered 22 new asteroids and a disintegrating comet. Hannah Blyth, 18, had been chosen to do a summer work placement on the University of Glamorgan's Faulkes Telescope project...
NASA Selects Contractor For Icesat-2 Spacecraft NASA has selected Orbital Science Corporation of Dulles, Va., to build the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft. Under the terms of the $135 million delivery order (including the spacecraft and all associated optio...
A Russian Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the Progress M-11M/43P cargoship from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 15:00 GMT, 21st June, 2011. Progress M-11M/43P docking (SM aft) to the International Space Station will be on the 23rd June.
Could Wales' dark skies bring in a million more visitors? Astronomy experts believe visitor numbers at Wales' national parks could be boosted by a million people each year if the country's "wonderful, natural" dark skies are properly protected and utilised. They are urging Wales to fo...
The Commission on New Minerals and several universities named a recently-discovered mineral after a distinguished UNM professor. Researchers at the California Institution of Technology named a mineral discovered in 2003 "Brearleyite," after professor Adrian Brearley, chair of...
Dirk Brouwer (September 1, 1902, Rotterdam - January 31, 1966, New Haven) was a Dutch-American astronomer. He received his Ph.D. in 1927 at Leiden University in the Netherlands and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the Astronomical Journal. Read more
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