Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar. The first part of the product's name comes from Latin bos (genitive bovis) meaning "ox" or "cow." Johnston took the -vril suffi...
13 April 2005
A research group at Cambridge think that the universe might once have been packed full of tiny black holes. Dr Martin Haehnelt, a researcher in the group led by Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, will prese...
Ibn Khaldn or Ibn Khaldoun (, Ab Zayd 'Abdu r-Raman bin Muammad bin Khaldn Al-Hadrami, May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was an Arab historiographer and historian born in North Africa in present-day Tunisia and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, s...
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 [O.S. 16 May] 1703. Read more
The 1293 Kamakura earthquake in Japan occurred at about 06:00 local time on 27 May. It had an estimated magnitude of 7.1-7.5 and triggered a tsunami. The estimated death toll was 23,024. It has been suggested that the reference to a large tsunami is incorrect, although a tsunami deposit has been foun...
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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Archaeologists invite public to Longstanton Iron Age dig Archaeologists have opened a dig site in Cambridgeshire to the public for one day before new homes are built over it. The dig is in the village of Longstanton which is in an area that has already thrown up Iron Age, Roman, Saxon and mediaeval fin...
Title: The Herschel Orion Protostar Survey (HOPS) Authors: Megeath, S. Thomas; Fischer, W.; Ali, B.; Allen, L.; Poteet, C.; Watson, D.; Wilson, T A complete description of the formation of stellar systems, from the initial collapse of a cloud core to the emergence of planets, requires a detailed u...
Orbital elements:
2011 KF9 Earth MOID = 0.0930 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 34.75855 (2000.0) P Q
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 16.16537 (2000.0) P Q
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Orbital elements:
2011 KN9 Earth MOID = 0.3615 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 2.12589 (2000.0) P Q
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Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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Title: Metallicity Gradient of a Lensed Face-on Spiral Galaxy at Redshift 1.49 Authors: T.-T. Yuan (1), L. J. Kewley (1), A. M. Swinbank (2), J. Richard (2,3), R. C. Livermore (2) ((1) IfA, Hawaii (2) Durham, UK (3) Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute) (Version v2) We present the first metal...
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38th annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods will be organised jointly by the Arctic Research group of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the University of Oulu Space Research Group and Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, at Siuntio Wellness and Conference Resor...
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