Stargazers gather at Mosquito Hill Mosquito Hill Nature Centre and the North East Wisconsin Stargazer's Organization will offer an evening of stargazing beginning at 8 p.m. July 8 with an indoor presentation entitled "The Solar System Comes Alive." Read more
The first USS Jeannette was originally HMS Pandora, a Philomel-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy, and was purchased in 1875 by Sir Allen Young for his arctic voyages in 1875-1876. Jeannette departed San Francisco on 8 July 1879, the Secretary of the Navy (SecNav) having added to her original instru...
Maxima of the long peroid variable star S Volantis on the 8th July, 2011. Magnitude: 8.6-13.6 Period: 394.8 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 07 29 45.58 | Dec -73° 22' 44"
Maxima of the variable star SV Scorpii on the 8th July, 2011. Magnitude: 9.8-14.8 Period: 262 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 17 48 19.99 | Dec -35° 42' 04.7"
Middlesboro is a meteorite crater in Kentucky, United States. It is named after the city of Middlesborough (also spelled Middlesboro), which today occupies much of the crater. It is approximately about 6 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 300 million years (Permian). The crate...
World's longest bridge opens in China Chinese engineers have completed a 42.4 km bridge, connecting three cities in the east of the country. China has opened the world's longest sea bridge to general traffic. The bridge spans 42.4km to con...
CERN launches Open Hardware initiative Four months after launching the alpha version, CERN has today issued version 1.1 of the Open Hardware Licence (OHL), a legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community. In the spirit of knowledge and technology diss...
Pathfinder telescope Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, today launched a register of the opportunities available to industry to participate in building a $100 million radio telescope in Western Australia. "The Australian Square Kilomet...
Title: PTF1 J071912.13+485834.0: An outbursting AM CVn system discovered by a synoptic survey Authors: David Levitan, Benjamin J. Fulton, Paul J. Groot, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Eran O. Ofek, Thomas A. Prince, Avi Shporer, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nicholas M. Law, Pet...
Orbital elements:
2011 LC19 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0136 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 353.17717 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.17762759 Peri. 138.99656 +0.99262347 +0.02465432
a 3.1342173 Node 220.06816 -0.05520317 +0.96363036
e 0.7238645 Incl. 10.62676 +0.10794096 +0.26609905
P 5.55...
Orbital elements:
2011 NV Earth MOID = 0.2107 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 351.22259 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.43260352 Peri. 68.28320 +0.95628024 +0.16108571
a 1.7314476 Node 281.78206 -0.25593012 +0.86483538
e 0.3598178 Incl. 14.43860 +0.14151990 +0.47551148
P 2.28 H 22.6 G 0...
Maxima of long period variable RU Aurigae on the 14th March, 2010 Magnitude: 9.0 - 16.0 V Type: Mira Period: 466.47 days Position (2000): RA 05 40 07.9370, Dec +37 38 10.543
Maxima of the long period variable RT Lyrae on the 7th July, 2011. Magnitude: 10.1-14.6 Period: 253.7 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 19 01 14.88 | Dec +37° 31' 19.9"
Mantle plume propelled India towards Asia Evidence of historical irregularities in the motions of both the Indian and African tectonic plates bolsters the contention that plumes of hot rock rising from deep within Earth's mantle can drive the planet's tectonic plates. About 68 million years ago...
