William Randolph "Randy" Lovelace II (December 30, 1907-December 12, 1965) was an American physician who made contributions to aerospace medicine. During World War II he served in the Air Force. He personally performed experiments in escape and the use of the parachute at high-altit...
Outbreak of St. John's Dance in Aachen. (1374) Dancing mania (or choreomania) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 18th centuries; it involved groups of people, sometimes thousands at a time, who danced uncontrollably and bizarrely. Men, women...
On Friday night, June 24, Charles Scovil, the astronomer at the Stamford Observatory, will talk about the huge telescopes, the W.M. Keck Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the McDonald Observatory in Austin, Texas, as part of the "Astronomy Nights" series at the Stamford Museum and Nat...
The Danebury stone H6 chondrite meteorite, with weathered surface and no fusion crust, was uncovered in fill halfway down (about 70 cm) an Iron Age pit during an archaeological dig at Danebury Iron Age hillfort, England, in 1974. It is the first ever meteorite find on UK soil. The Iron Age hillfort si...
On June 24, 1938 a meteorite fell in the vicinity of Chicora. Named the "Chicora Meteor", the 450+ tonne meteorite exploded approximately twelve miles above the Earth's surface. Only two fragments of the meteorite were found following initial investigations. They had masses 242g an...
Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission XVII. The hot Jupiter CoRoT-17b: a very old planet Authors: Sz. Csizmadia, C. Moutou, M. Deleuil, J. Cabrera, M. Fridlund, D. Gandolfi, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, J. M. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, A. S. Bonomo, P. Borde, F. Bouch...
About 14.7 million years ago, in the Miocene, a impact crater was caused by a meteorite at a place what is now known as Nordlingen Ries, Germany and at Steinheimer, Germany. The depression has a circular shape and is 25 km in diameter. The bottom of the crater is about 100-150 m below the brink. The city o...
Orbital elements:
2011 ME Earth MOID = 0.2989 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 0.73607 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.65424815 Peri. 167.71571 +0.73810377 -0.59167989
a 1.3141382 Node 233.46478 +0.57983136 +0.80198880
e 0.7145068 Incl. 23.79795 +0.34496148 -0.08202975
P 1.51 H 19.5 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2011 MC Earth MOID = 0.0719 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 6.11658 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.24403455 Peri. 225.34014 +0.66995411 +0.61377907
a 2.5361124 Node 91.96748 -0.50592033 +0.78917162
e 0.6134188 Incl. 24.70224 -0.54332873 +0.02198640
P 4.04 H 21.5 G 0.1...
Supercomputer network to be launched in Auckland A national supercomputer network to boost research on many fronts, from climate change to drug discovery, from nanoparticles to models of the human heart, will be launched tomorrow by the Hon Wayne Mapp at host institution The University of Auckla...
New mineral, krotite, named after UH Manoa researcher The first natural occurrence of a low-pressure CaAl2O4 mineral has been found in a refractory inclusion in a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. While synthetic low-pressure and high-pressure CaAl2O4 phases are well known in the field of mat...
ESO's New Compact Laser Guide Star Unit Tested Last night, ESO's Wendelstein laser guide star unit had its first light at the Allgäu Public Observatory in Ottobeuren, Germany. Laser guide stars are artificial stars created high up in the Earth's atmosphere using a laser beam with a power of several...
Title: The architecture of the hierarchical triple star KOI 928 from eclipse timing variations seen in Kepler photometry Authors: J. H. Steffen (1), S. N. Quinn (2), W. J. Borucki (3), E. Brugamyer (4), S. T. Bryson (3), L. A. Buchhave (5) W. D. Cochran (4), M. Endl (4), D. C. Fabrycky (6), E. B. Ford (7)...
