The Port of Athens was once an island Piraeus, the main port of Athens, was an island from 4 800 - 3 400 BC, in other words 4 500 years before the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis. This discovery was made by a French-Greek team led by Jean-Philippe Goiran, a CNRS researcher at the 'Archéorient - Enviro...
The observatory celebrated the 10th anniversary of the discovery of 11739 Baton Rouge at a small party Saturday evening. The gathering also marked the return of its 20-inch reflector, the telescope which was used to discover the asteroids, after it was sent to Pennsylvania for cleaning and resur...
Title: Confirmation of the magnetic oblique rotator model for the Of?p star HD 191612 Authors: G.A. Wade, I.D. Howarth, R.H.D. Townsend, J.H. Grunhut, M. Shultz, J.-C. Bouret, A. Fullerton, W. Marcolino, F. Martins, Y. Nazé, A. ud Doula, N.R. Walborn, J.-F. Donati, the MiMeS Collaboration This p...
Title: SN 2009jf: a slow-evolving stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova Authors: S. Valenti (1,2), M. Fraser, S. Benetti, G. Pignata, J. Sollerman, C. Inserra, E. Cappellaro, A. Pastorello, S. J. Smartt, M. Ergon, M. T. Botticella, J. Brimacombe, F. Bufano, M. Crockett, I. Eder, D. Fugazz...
Peter Stoner (June 16, 1888 - March 21, 1980) was Chairman of the Departments of Mathematics and Astronomy at Pasadena City College until 1953; Chairman of the science division, Westmont College, 1953-57; Professor Emeritus of Science, Westmont College; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and A...
Professor Dr. Elias Salameh / University of Jordan has announced the discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan near Jabal Waqf es Suwwan. The discovery was made by Professor Dr. Elias Salameh, Professor Dr. Werner Schneider, and Professor Dr. Hani Khoury.
The diameter of the outer ring of the...
The Wabar craters are impact craters brought to the attention of Western scholars by an explorer searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia. The Wabar site covers about 500 by 1,000 meters, and the most recent mapping shows three prominent, roughly circular craters. Five were reported by Ph...
Orbital elements:
2011 LH21 Earth MOID = 0.0639 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 24.97629 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.40456985 Peri. 37.13500 +0.65402981 +0.74688622
a 1.8105355 Node 274.04334 -0.71973359 +0.56554348
e 0.4199700 Incl. 6.91083 -0.23287028 +0.34974498
P 2.44 H 20.3 G 0...
The cast has been announced for Tenchi Meisastsu, the first film directed by Yojiro Takita since his Oscar win for Okuribito (Departures) in 2009. Junichi Okada will take the lead role of Harumi Shibukawa, a 17th century astronomer and mathematician who devised a new Japanese calendar, while Aoi M...
Next Solar Cycle May Not Happen A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (...
Title: Goldstone Fermion Dark Matter Authors: Brando Bellazzini, Csaba Csaki, Jay Hubisz, Jing Shao, Philip Tanedo We propose that the fermionic superpartner of a weak-scale Goldstone boson can be a natural WIMP candidate. The p-wave annihilation of this 'Goldstone fermion' into pairs of Gold...
Title: On a new parameter to estimate the helium content in old stellar systems Authors: F. Troisi, G. Bono, P. B. Stetson, A. Pietrinferni, A. Weiss, M. Fabrizio, I. Ferraro, A. Di Cecco, G. Iannicola, R. Buonanno, A. Calamida, F. Caputo, C. E. Corsi, M. Dall'Ora, A. Kunder, M. Monelli, M. Nonino, A....
Title: A Fossil Bulge Globular Cluster revealed by VLT Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Authors: Sergio Ortolani, Beatriz Barbuy, Yazan Momany, Ivo Saviane, Eduardo Bica, Lucie Jilkova, Gustavo Malta Salerno, Bruno Jungwiert The globular cluster HP1 is projected on the bulge, very close to th...
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (30 March 1754 - 15 June 1785) was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. He later died when his balloon cr...
