Orbital elements:
2011 NP Earth MOID = 0.2640 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 27.67738 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.49827276 Peri. 355.36229 +0.36599862 +0.73700737
a 1.5757644 Node 295.11212 -0.83237028 -0.01379976
e 0.1878070 Incl. 38.86788 -0.41617872 +0.67574381
P 1.98 H 19.6 G 0...
The highlights of MagISStra and DAMA missions Two high-profile European space missions came to end in May and June. Paolo Nespoli returned to Earth on 24 May, after spending almost six months aboard the International Space Station on his M...
Spirited stargazing unlimited More Western Australian school students will be able to take part in an innovative astronomy program through The University of Western Australia, thanks to an agreement signed last week between Hawaiian Pty Ltd and UWA. Funded by Hawaiian and UWA, the $100,000 soph...
How do you build a tent fit for life on an asteroid? A group of UW-Madison students answered that question to win a NASA competition to design and build the best space habitat. The Badger X-Loft team beat teams from two other universities - Oklahoma State and Maryland - to win $10,000 and an opportunity...
Western Nevada College celebrates the fifth anniversary of its Jack C. Davis Observatory on Sept. 20, with a star party and free lecture by a NASA scientist. Dana Backman will speak about how planets are formed at the annual Harlow Shapley Lecture offered by the American Astronomical Society. It be...
New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today. Originally, we all had brow...
Two Northumbria University students have been awarded second and third place in a national design competition. Russell Tuit, a second year Design for Industry student from St Alban's, came in second place for his design of an electronic toy to keep children entertained in supermarkets. [url=htt...
Two of Orbital Sciences Corporation facilities, including the company's headquarters, were searched by US federal investigators on Thursday as part of a probe into the aerospace company's contracting practices.
Agents from the Defence Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) executed sear...
Latest research into the age of volcanos in Western Victoria and South Australia has confirmed that the regions are overdue for an eruption, potentially affecting thousands of local residents. Using the latest dating techniques, scientists from the University of Melbourne's School of Earth Sc...
Maxima of the long period variable X Aquarii on the 5th July, 2011. Magnitude: 8.3-14.4 Period: 311.65 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 22 18 39.31| Dec -20 54 04.1
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 - August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Bipolar junction transistor Sho...
A partial solar eclipse will occur on July 1, 2011. This is the first solar eclipse of Saros cycle 156, only visible as a partial solar eclipse over a small area off the coast of Antarctica. At greatest eclipse, the magnitude will be just 0.097. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse...
