David Gregory (originally spelt Gregorie) FRS (3 June 1659 - 10 October 1708) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. The fourth of the fifteen children of David Gregorie, a doctor from Kinnairdy, Banffshire, and Jean Walker of Orchiston, David was born in Upper Kirkgate, Aberdeen. The neph...
Kitchen sink experiment simulates exotic white holes Expensive particle colliders are not the only way to explore far-out physics. It seems that water gushing from a tap and hitting a sink behaves like a white hole - the theoretical opposite of a black hole. A black hole is a dense concentration of ma...
CME with a Bonus O Sol desencadeou uma ejeção de massa coronal (CME) de bom tamanho, que ejetou-se para o espaço (20-21 maio de 2011), como a espaçonave STEREO (adiante) observou. Logo depois, como um bônus visual, um cometa surgiu (da direi...
Ancient Mediterranean flood mystery solved Research reveals details of a catastrophic flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago. Research has revealed details of the catastrophic Zanclean flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years...
Balloon Boy's UFO-like craft for sale Balloon Boy's UFO-like craft is now for sale. Richard Heene, who now lives in Florida, tells 10 News he is selling the balloon through a sealed bid auction to try and raise money for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. [url=http://springhill.wtsp....
Asteroid (217) Eudora is a large Main belt asteroid. It probably has a composition similar to carbonaceous chondrites. In 2007, a study showed it rotates every 25.253 ± 0.003 hours, based on lightcurve data. It was discovered by J. Coggia on August 30, 1880 in Marseilles, France. [url=http://en.w...
Flying object spotted in Northeast El Paso were mylar balloons Residents in the Northeast reported seeing a fiery object in the sky Tuesday night and then hearing a loud popping sound like a small explosion. Rob Garcia, a resident who lives at an apartment complex near Rushing Road, said the object w...
Orbital elements:
2011 KP17 Earth MOID = 0.0813 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 356.25807 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.35970385 Peri. 179.55507 +0.98101571 +0.19273836
a 1.9581201 Node 169.25996 -0.17827937 +0.93984875
e 0.5534195 Incl. 6.60962 -0.07631935 +0.28202172
P 2.74 H 19.1...
Orbital elements:
2011 KQ19 Earth MOID = 0.2009 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 68.51213 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.43382484 Peri. 290.95721 -0.92946656 +0.02794485
a 1.7281964 Node 252.16080 +0.07324983 -0.96329278
e 0.3965188 Incl. 22.73228 -0.36156102 -0.26699458
P 2.27 H 22.0...
Orbital elements:
2011 KW19 Earth MOID = 0.2106 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 5.88136 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.42044137 Peri. 157.35362 +0.62903793 +0.77299542
a 1.7646791 Node 151.42293 -0.73700960 +0.62672691
e 0.3109562 Incl. 9.91908 -0.24724105 +0.09844518
P 2.34 H 20.9 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 KT19
Epoch 2011 May 19.0 TT = JDT 2455700.5 MPC
M 24.79459 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00678502 Peri. 307.96865 -0.85382775 -0.01223152
a 27.6334649 Node 237.65993 +0.02105716 -0.99971719
e 0.4059778 Incl. 38.02126 -0.52012956 -0.02039414
P 145 H 8.5 G 0.15
From 18 observat...
Tweetup at NASA's JPL Previews 2011 Missions NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host a Tweetup on Monday, June 6. More than 100 NASA Twitter followers, who registered in April, will attend the event. With four NASA/JPL space missions launching in 2011 and an asteroid belt e...
Title: DASCH on KU Cyg: a ~5 year dust accretion event in ~1900 Authors: Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, Edward Los, Mathieu Servillat KU Cyg is an eclipsing binary consisting of a F-type star accreting through a large accretion disk from a K5III red giant. Here we present the discovery of a 5-yr dip ar...
