The beginning of what some people thought was the end of the world started on June 2, 1950, with a small wildfire in the northeast corner of British Columbia. The blaze burned for 222 days and torched a stretch of forest that was 245 kilometres long. It was and still is the biggest forest fire to hit Canad...
The 72 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2010 XK will make a close pass (39.5 lunar distances, 0.1016 AU), travelling at 14.01 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd June, 2011 @ 21:30 UT ±12:50. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU...
Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 - 3 April 1862), was a British naval officer and explorer. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica. He located the position of the North Magnetic Pole on 1 June 1831 on the Boothia Peninsu...
Keeping the power on in space All space missions have one inescapable dependency: the electricity flowing through their systems to keep them alive. Take away its power and a spacecraft is nothing more than space debris - an eventuality the space power professionals strive to avoid. Next week see...
A small piece of SL-12 rocket body debris that was launched on the 16th September, 1987, from the Baikonur cosmodrome, for the (Glonass) KOSMOS 1883, 1884, 1885, satellites mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 29th May, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours. SL12 DEB 1 27920U 87079AD 1...
Orbital elements:
2011 KO17 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0455 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 33.31535 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25795654 Peri. 308.30731 -0.90486461 +0.42027391
a 2.4440215 Node 256.63705 -0.36560563 -0.84874818
e 0.5854355 Incl. 3.99297 -0.21806551 -0.32093049
P 3.82 H 1...
Orbital elements:
2011 KN17 Earth MOID = 0.0112 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 40.58494 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29101467 Peri. 280.14856 -0.97460750 -0.20313833
a 2.2552402 Node 248.18030 +0.22360206 -0.90531524
e 0.6809763 Incl. 5.82425 -0.01193043 -0.37301359
P 3.39 H 22.4 G...
Title: E6 Unification and the Hidden Sector of the Universe Authors: C.R. Das, L.V. Laperashvili, H.B. Nielsen, A. Tureanu A talk presents a new cosmological model with superstring-inspired E_6 unification, broken at the early stage of the Universe into SO(10) x U(1)_Z -- into the ordinary world...
A magnitude 14.2 type Ia supernova, 2011by, was discovered on the 26th April, 2011, by Z. Jin and X. Gao, in the spiral galaxy NGC 3972 in the constellation Ursa Major. The supernova is located 5.3" east and 19.1" north from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA = 11 55 45.56, Dec = +...
Is astronomy a field that is fit only for intellectuals, great scientists and physicians? Well, if you think so, then you are mistaken as I was, earlier. I realised that it was not a fact. The fact actually is that the field is open to all, even if they are not trained or qualified; if you can keep gazing in...
Geminiano Montanari (June 1, 1633 - October 13, 1687) was an Italian astronomer, lens-maker, and proponent of the experimental approach to science. He is best known for his observation, made around 1667, that the second brightest star (called Algol in Arabic) in the constellation of Perseus vari...
Cardea or Carda was the ancient Roman goddess of the hinge (Latin cardo, cardinis), Roman doors being hung on pivot hinges. The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name C...
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 - 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) engineer officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turbojet engine (some years earlier than Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain) and is hailed by some as the father of j...
Ever imagined the Romans taking a circuitous sea route around Africa to reach the Persian Gulf and further touch the western Indian shores of Bharuch in Gujarat for trade with Pune over 2,000 years back? Archaeologists from the Deccan College here have come across a plethora of evidence at the Junna...
