Hydrogen Peroxide Found in Space Molecules of hydrogen peroxide have been found for the first time in interstellar space. The discovery gives clues about the chemical link between two molecules critical for life: water and oxygen. On Earth, hydrogen peroxide plays a key role in the chemistry of wa...
Orbital elements:
2011 NQ Earth MOID = 0.1347 AU
Epoch 2011 June 28.0 TT = JDT 2455740.5 MPC
M 281.65975 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.24576055 Peri. 337.26495 -0.50072953 -0.85178565
a 2.5242242 Node 142.28034 +0.82784997 -0.52323133
e 0.8986630 Incl. 14.58389 +0.25285247 +0.02627150
P 4.01 H 15.3 G...
Aid agencies call for help in East Africa The horn of Africa's worst drought in 60 years has left tens of thousands of families in a desperate situation
China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on Tuesday said it will launch an experimental orbiter in China's Shi-Jian satellite series in coming days. Read more Ed ~ Launch is scheduled for July 6 between 14:20 and 14:45...
Title: Discovery of two L & T binaries with wide separations and peculiar photometric properties Authors: Étienne Artigau, David Lafrenière, René Doyon, Michael Liu, Trent J. Dupuy, Loïc Albert, Jonathan Gagné, Lison Malo, Damien Gratadour We present spatially resolved photometric and s...
Title: A giant planet in the triple system HD132563 Authors: S. Desidera, E. Carolo, R. Gratton, A.F. Martinez Fiorenzano, M. Endl, D. Mesa, M. Barbieri, M. Bonavita, M. Cecconi, R.U. Claudi, R. Cosentino, F. Marzari, S. Scuderi As part of our radial velocity planet-search survey performed with S...
Title: Suzaku Discovery of Twin Thermal Plasma from the Tornado Nebula Authors: Makoto Sawada, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Katsuji Koyama, Tomoharu Oka The Tornado nebula (G357.7-0.1) is a mysterious radio source with bright "head" and faint "tail" located in the direction of the G...
The Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, have been discovered to be the world's oldest open caves system.
Scientists from the CSIRO, the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum dated the limestone caves to be 340 million years old, using clay-dating methods...
Cosmic Call 2 interstellar radio message Cosmic Call 2 sent to Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris on July 6 , 2003. Cosmic Call was the name of two interstellar radio messages that were sent from RT-70 in Yevpatoria in 1999 and 2003 to various nearby stars. The messages were des...
Maxima of the long period variable X Coronae Borealis on the 6th July, 2011. Magnitude: 9.1-13.6 Period: 241.17 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 15 48 53.52| Dec +36° 14' 52.5"
Maxima of the long period variable S Arietis on the 6th July, 2011. Magnitude: 10.9-15.2 Period: 292.15 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 02 04 37.66| Dec +12° 31' 37.4"
Falling Skies: will you be watching?[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jul/05/falling-skies-steven-spielberg-noah-wyle]Rea...
2011 UFO Contact at the ECETI Ranch A new video shows a UFO that appeared to witnesses "as bright as a second sun" crossing the skies over the ECETI Ranch in Trout Lake Washington on the evening of Monday, June 27, 2011. The event was...
Title: Tungsten tetraboride, an inexpensive superhard material Authors: Reza Mohammadi, Andrew T. Lech, Miao Xie, Beth E. Weaver, Michael T. Yeung, Sarah H. Tolbert, and Richard B. Kaner Tungsten tetraboride (WB4) is an interesting candidate as a less expensive member of the growing group of su...
