Stargazers heading for old mine Stargazing experts will be organising an evening of exploring the night sky from an historic Peak District mine. The Peak District National Park Authority has teamed up with Nottingham Trent University to organise an event on Wednesday, August 31 at Magpie Mine, ne...
Dorset Mountain located in Vermont, on the border of Rutland and Bennington counties, is a mountain of the Taconic Range. Dorset Mountain is home to the largest underground marble quarry in the world. The quarry is entered through the same opening that has been in use for over 100 years. The mine is 1 ½...
Title: A barium central star binary in the Type-I diamond ring planetary nebula Abell 70 Authors: B. Miszalski, H. M. J. Boffin, D. J. Frew, A. Acker, J. Köppen, A. F. J. Moffat, Q. A. Parker Abell 70 (PN G038.1-25.4, hereafter A 70) is a planetary nebula (PN) known for its diamond ring appearance due a s...
Loch Ness search for mysterious balloon-like object The emergency services undertook a night-time search of Loch Ness after reports a balloon-like object had fallen from the sky. The police, coastguard, lifeboat and an RAF search and rescue helicopter scoured the area but found nothing. The ala...
Orbital elements:
2011 QE2 Earth MOID = 0.2348 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 3.78066 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31404359 Peri. 335.04204 +0.78575943 +0.61784872
a 2.1435951 Node 346.67703 -0.54421325 +0.66824691
e 0.4212430 Incl. 7.24724 -0.29396270 +0.41437788
P 3.14 H 21.9 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2011 QT2 Earth MOID = 0.0608 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 4.78556 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.22545832 Peri. 233.06057 +0.65493185 +0.75546342
a 2.6735719 Node 77.86443 -0.68720228 +0.60554006
e 0.5984223 Incl. 1.07958 -0.31435220 +0.25019243
P 4.37 H 22.7 G 0.1...
Orbital elements:
2011 QS2 Earth MOID = 0.0751 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 333.99784 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.45260522 Peri. 78.66877 +0.70790494 -0.68352744
a 1.6800531 Node 324.02696 +0.46979877 +0.64378831
e 0.5017670 Incl. 17.63290 +0.52740848 +0.34398669
P 2.18 H 20.4 G...
Maxima of the long period variable RV Centauri on the 22nd August, 2011. Magnitude range: 7.7-10.3 Period: 446 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 13 37 36.05 | Dec -56 28 35
The Haida Gwaii earthquake of 1949 was a magnitude 8.1 interplate earthquake that struck the sparsely populated islands of Haida Gwaii and the Pacific Northwest coast on August 22, 1949. It is one of the world's greatest earthquakes. Read more
Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (August 21, 1665 - December 1, 1729) was an French-Italian astronomer and mathematician. His name is also given as Jacques Philippe Maraldi. Born in Perinaldo (modern Liguria) he was the nephew of Giovanni Cassini, and worked most of his life at the Paris Observatory (1687...
Eduard Suess (August 20, 1831, London - April 26, 1914, Vienna) was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed 1861) and the Tethys Ocean. Read more
Valentin Petrovich Glushko or Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko (born 2 September 1908 in Odessa, Russian Empire - 10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer, and the principal Soviet "Chief Designer" of spacecraft and rockets during the Soviet/American Space Race. Read more
Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS (born 20 August 1957, in Cambridge, England), is an English mathematician famous for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds. Read more
