Francis William Aston (1 September 1877 - 20 November 1945) was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rul...
Title: Evidence for Exotic Meson Production in the Reaction \pi^{-} p \to \eta \pi^{-} p at 18GeV/c Authors: The E852 Collaboration (15 May 1997) The \eta \pi^{-} system has been studied in the reaction \pi^{-} p \to \eta \pi^{-} p$ at 18 GeV/c. A large asymmetry in the angular distribution is observ...
Johann Pachelbel (baptised September 1, 1653 - buried March 9, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. Read more Mars - Pachelbell 8000Pachelbel - Canon in D (Hol...
Artists in Space Speaker: David A. Hardy Date: 1 September 2011 Start Time: 7 pm End Time: 8:30 pm Venue: BIS, 27/29 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London, SW8 1SZ This talk covers the development of astronomical art from its earliest beginnings, and charts its progress through the French artist Luc...
Orbital elements:
2010 VZ98
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 356.61270 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00069096 Peri. 306.09033 +0.44389071 -0.89335834
a 126.7170625 Node 117.41518 +0.84534342 +0.39164579
e 0.7187668 Incl. 4.50981 +0.29724662 +0.22028267
P 1430 H 4.9 G 0.15 U 6 MPEC 2011 - Q...
Orbital elements:
2011 QC46 Earth MOID = 0.2799 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 319.71859 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30939212 Peri. 130.52468 +0.48727529 -0.87041494
a 2.1650265 Node 290.18214 +0.77684264 +0.46883784
e 0.4175314 Incl. 4.29476 +0.39884622 +0.15022951
P 3.19 H 19.8...
Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young StarsCredit: NASA, ESA, and P. Hartigan (Rice University) A team of scientists has collected enough high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images over a 14-year period to stitch together time-lapse movies of powerful jet...
The dwarf nova IP Pegasi is in outburst. Date: 27th July, 2011 Magnitude: 12 - 18.6 Period: ? Satellite period: 0.15820609 days Type: UG+EPosition(2000): RA=23 23 08.60 | Dec=+18°24'59.6"
The cataclysmic variable star VZ Aquarii is in outburst. Date of Outburst: 23rd October, 2008 Magnitude: 11.3 - 17.2 Period: 40.6 days Satellite Period: ? Type: UGSSPosition(2000): RA=21h30m24.64s, DE=-02°59'17.1"
Twenty-five years of comet science, satellite communications for air traffic management, and robotic operations controlled from orbit... Read about these and other stories in the Bulletin with our visualiser tool. Read online This month's Bulletin cover shows a Soyuz launcher at Europe's Sp...
Excavations on Bulgaria's St Ivan island a success The new archaeological excavations on the island of Saint Ivan close to the seaside town of Sozopol are successful, Tsonya Drazheva, deputy head of the excavations, said. Quoted by local news agency Focus, she said that the team's priority this ye...
NASA Practicing Asteroid Mission in Arizona Desert A team of about 150 engineers, scientists, astronauts, researchers and students started work this week on the first of several deep-space mission scenarios, part of an annual NASA field expedition called Desert Research and Technology Studie...
North Texas Fireball 3:51 AM - with radar scatter North Texas got another show this morning with a very bight event. I believe this meets the definition of a bolide this time. Scatter from the USAF Space radar system at Lake Kickapoo was good -...
Title: A Spitzer Space Telescope survey of massive young stellar objects in the G333.2-0.4 giant molecular cloud Authors: Janet P. Simpson, Angela S. Cotera, Michael G. Burton, Maria Cunningham, Nadia Lo, Indra Bains The G333 giant molecular cloud contains a few star clusters and H II regions, pl...
