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A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 11:34:52 (UTC) on Sunday, January 8, 2006, in Southern Greece, about 95 km NNW of Chania, Crete. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.7 km. Location 36.250°N, 23.498°E

May 7, 2011- Georgia Visited by Another Bright Meteor! Once again, on May 7, 2011, Georgia's night skies are lit up by a bright meteor - also known as a Bolide or Fireball. A Sandia National Laboratories Fireball Camera, located in Ty Ty, Georgia on the site of the Red Barn Observatory was able to captur...

A row has broken out in Norway over a decision to move three ancient Viking ships, which may not survive the journey. The University of Oslo has decided to move three longships, probably by lorry and barge, to a new museum, despite dire warnings that the thousand-year-old oak vessels could fall apa...

Orbital elements: 2011 JN5 Earth MOID = 0.0189 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 345.96883 (2000.0) P Q n 0.96068096 Peri. 241.70617 -0.25123922 -0.94391269 a 1.0172240 Node 224.59754 +0.96003255 -0.21479793 e 0.4262167 Incl. 17.76788 +0.12335457 -0.25078015 P 1.03 H 25.1 G...

Orbital elements: 2011 JM5 Earth MOID = 0.0057 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 10.27673 (2000.0) P Q n 1.20100139 Peri. 31.55042 +0.08475530 -0.99620873 a 0.8765440 Node 53.59482 +0.90903366 +0.06924807 e 0.2820055 Incl. 1.39643 +0.40801269 +0.05265804 P 0.82 H 26.2 G 0.15...

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Google Earth file: Dwarf planet (134340) Pluto.kmz (15kb, kmz)

Orbital elements: 2011 FQ29 Earth MOID = 0.0515 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 291.45551 (2000.0) P Q n 0.63845229 Peri. 240.91259 -0.39902061 +0.91692206 a 1.3357251 Node 5.58069 -0.81821294 -0.35307620 e 0.2304084 Incl. 3.56089 -0.41389628 -0.18598691 P 1.54 H 25.0 G 0....

Orbital elements: 2011 GP65 Earth MOID = 0.1042 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 325.27747 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26504893 Peri. 273.75546 +0.32093916 +0.94558184 a 2.4002253 Node 15.29676 -0.76816126 +0.29299115 e 0.6460316 Incl. 11.72256 -0.55400932 +0.14153155 P 3.72 H 20.7 G...

The Boeing Phantom Ray is a stealthy unmanned combat air vehicle being developed by Boeing using company funds. The Phantom Ray is a demonstrator aircraft, about the size of a fighter that will conduct a program of test flights involving surveillance, ground attack and autonomous aerial refuelli...

Will NASA Sail the Great Lakes of Titan? The world's astrobiology community is all abuzz over one of NASA's most exciting Discovery Mission proposals ever considered to explore the vast methane lakes in the Northern Polar region of Saturn's moon, Titan. This Titan ocean "Lake Lander" w...

Researchers are reporting the discovery of a large hydrogen (HI) cloud in the central regions of the Virgo cluster. It is 110 x 25 kpc in size and contains 3.4 x 10^8 solar masses of hydrogen gas. The shape and movement of this cloud strongly suggest that it consists of gas removed from t...

Title: WR 110: A Single Wolf-Rayet Star With Corotating Interaction Regions In Its Wind? Authors: A.-N. Chené (NRC/HIA, U. de Concepción, U. de Valparaíso), A. F. J. Moffat (U. de Montréal), C. Cameron (U. of British Columbia), R. Fahed (U. de Montréal), R. C. Gamen (U. Nacional de La Plata), L. Lefè...

Title: Bayesian evidence for two companions orbiting HIP 5158 Authors: F. Feroz (Cambridge), S. T. Balan (Cambridge), M. P. Hobson (Cambridge) We present results of a Bayesian analysis of radial velocity (RV) data for the star HIP 5158, confirming the presence of two companions and also constrai...

Orbital elements: P/2004 HC18 (LINEAR) = 2011 J1 Epoch 2010 Dec. 30.0 TT = JDT 2455560.5 T 2010 Dec. 29.49779 TT MPC q 1.7140181 (2000.0) P Q n 0.15107817 Peri. 30.98354 -0.36144805 +0.89727341 a 3.4914158 Node 219.48565 -0.91610592 -0.39235005 e 0.5090765 Incl. 23.49299 -0.17350863 +0....