Maxima of long period variable X Hydrae on the 25th August, 2011. Magnitude range: 8.4-12.8 Period: 301.1 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 09 35 30.25 | Dec -14° 41' 28.6"
Chinese researchers have discovered an impact structure in Xiuyan County (Manchu Autonomous, Liaoning, China. The crater has a diameter of 1,800 metres, and is 150 metres deep. It is believed to have been formed 50,000 years ago. According to Chen Ming, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, thi...
The 180 - 400 metre wide asteroid 1994 XL1 will make a close pass (46.0 lunar distances, 0.1182 AU), travelling at 16.36 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th November, 2011 @ 15:45 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Di...
Berkeley Lab Scientists Unveil an X-ray Technique Called HARPES The expression "beauty's only skin-deep" has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface. However, for many of the materials in today's high technologies, such as se...
VLT Looks into The Eyes of the VirginCredit: ESO/Gems project ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken a striking image of a beautiful yet peculiar pair of galaxies nicknamed The Eyes. The larger of these, NGC 4438, was once a spiral galaxy but has become badly deformed by collisions with other galaxies...
A WA researcher has received an Australian Laureate Fellowship for his research into meteorites and the data they hold of the origins of The Solar System. Curtin University's Department of Applied Geology Adjunct Professor Philip Bland's research is devoted to the analysis of primitive meteori...
Title: Observations of Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 in Spring 2006 with VERITAS Authors: S.J. Fegan (for the VERITAS Collaboration) VERITAS, the Very Energetic Radiation Telescope Imaging Array System, is an array of four imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in southern Arizona. It is sensitive to g...
Title: The Spin-Orbit Misalignment of the XO-3 Exoplanetary System Authors: Joshua N. Winn, John Asher Johnson, Daniel Fabrycky, Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Norio Narita, Ian J. Crossfield, Yasushi Suto, Edwin L. Turner, Gil Esquerdo, Matthew J. Holman We present photometric and spec...
Title: Binary-induced magnetic activity? Time-series echelle spectroscopy and photometry of HD123351 = CZ CVn Authors: K. G. Strassmeier, T. A. Carroll, M. Weber, T. Granzer, J. Bartus, K. Olah, J. B. Rice We present a first and detailed study of the bright and active K0IV-III star HD 123351. The s...
Orbital elements:
2011 QX8 Earth MOID = 0.1149 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 358.85265 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.3569859 Incl. 11.13175 -0.18087205 +0.17670054
P 2.32 H 23.2...
Orbital elements:
2010 XC11 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0282 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 33.42792 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.24758328 Peri. 120.94879 -0.80369331 +0.57379734
a 2.5118200 Node 94.51888 -0.58551102 -0.71536697
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P 3.98 H 18...
Orbital elements:
2007 FK1 Earth MOID = 0.0657 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 31.27165 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.91 H 20.2 G 0...
Title: NSV 11154 Is a New R Coronae Borealis Star Authors: Nutsinee Kijbunchoo, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Timothy C. Vieux, N. Dickerman, T. C. Hillwig, D. L. Welch, Ashley Pagnotta, Sumin Tang, J. E. Grindlay, A. Henden NSV 11154 has been confirmed as a new member of the rare hydrogen deficient R Coronae...
Gregory Bruce Jarvis (August 24, 1944 - January 28, 1986) was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist. Read more
France exploded its first hydrogen bomb in 1968. Canopus (also Opération Canopus in French) was the code name for France's first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted on August 24, 1968 at Fangataufa atoll. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United S...
