Mystery Boom Causes Panic in Northeast Philadelphia A mystery 'boom' that 'may not have been explosion' caused panic in northeast Philadelphia and Lower Bucks County at approximately 9:30 PM, May 27, 2011, according to a local NBC report, with multiple fire trucks, EMS, and power companies racin...
Typhoon Songda, the tropical storm, approaches the Philippines early Monday morning, expected to bring bad weather in large portion of the country, reports China's Xinhua news agency citing the local weather bureau. Read more
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2008 HE Earth MOID = 0.0838 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2011 KG13 Earth MOID = 0.0067 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 36.95805 (2000.0) P Q
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Cosmic distance record 'broken' A cataclysmic explosion of a huge star near the edge of the observable Universe may be the most distant single object yet spied by a telescope. Scientists believe the blast, which was detected by Nasa's Swift space observatory, occurred a mere 520 million years afte...
Cataclysmic variable star V5569 Sagittarii Magnitude range: 9.8 - 12.04 V Spectral type: Fe D Period: 509 Type: Z And, eclipsing binary system +BE Position(2000): RA 18 50 03.5696 | Dec -26 24 15.382
Orbital elements:
2011 HT Earth MOID = 0.0525 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 318.86821 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.69 H 21.6 G 0.1...
Taiwanese high school students discover asteroids A team of high school students from Taiwan has discovered four of 22 asteroids found during an asteroid search campaign organized by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) , an official from National Central University (N...
Code-cracking machine returned to life The National Museum of Computing has finished restoring a Tunny machine - a key part of Allied code-cracking during World War II. Tunny machines helped to unscramble Allied interceptions of the encrypted orders Hitler sent to his generals. [url=http://ww...
Prize offered for meteorite The single Newport meteorite was recovered due to the media frenzy from the February 10, 1930 fireball that accompanied the Paragould Meteorite fall. A few days later an 820 pound Paragould meteorite was found at the bottom of an 8 foot hole southwest of Paragould. Mr. Ni...
Title: The pulsation modes of the pre-white dwarf PG 1159-035 Authors: J. E. S. Costa, S. O. Kepler, D. E. Winget, M. S. O'Brien, S. D. Kawaler, A. F. M. Costa, O. Giovannini, A. Kanaan, A. S. Mukadam, F. Mullally, A. Nitta, J. L. Provençal, H. Shipman, M. A. Wood, T. J. Ahrens, A. Grauer, M. Kilic, P. A. Br...
Title: IRAS 18113-2503: the water fountain with the fastest jet? Authors: Jose F. Gomez, J. Ricardo Rizzo, Olga Suarez, Luis F. Miranda, Martin A. Guerrero, Gerardo Ramos-Larios We present Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) water maser observations at 22 GHz toward the source IRAS 18113-2503. Mas...
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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