A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were trying to figure out what it was.
Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed i...
How Ernest Rutherford ushered in the atomic age It was during a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society that the nuclear age was announced, on Tuesday, 7 March 1911, by Professor Ernest Rutherford, the 39-year-old head of physics at Manchester University. [url=http://www....
NGC 2442 (also NGC 2443, Meathook Galaxy, IRAS 07367-6924 and PGC 21373) is a magnitude +10.4 intermediate spiral galaxy located 50 ±1.2 million light-years away in the constellation Volans. The galaxy has a distorted 'S-shaped form'. The southwest part of the galaxy is listed as NGC 2442; the no...
Road construction and railroad development are threatening the 6000-year-old Yaqut-Tappeh mound near Behshahr in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran, the Persian service of CHN reported on Sunday.
A team of archaeologists recently began excavations at Yaqut-Tappeh to save artifact...
Title: Spectroscopic evidence for SN 2010ma associated with GRB 101219B Authors: M. Sparre, J. Sollerman, J.P.U. Fynbo, D. Malesani, P. Goldoni, A. de Ugarte Postigo, S. Covino, V. D'Elia, H. Flores, F. Hammer, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, L. Kaper, G. Leloudas, A.J. Levan, B. Milvang-Jensen, S. Sch...
Orbital elements:
2011 JL Earth MOID = 0.2637 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 333.41862 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.5234693 Incl. 10.84097 -0.40457806 -0.30236272
P 4.38 H 21.8 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2011 HJ61 Earth MOID = 0.1319 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 115.62224 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.54427425 Peri. 190.93283 +0.68920124 -0.69171689
a 1.4856763 Node 216.11048 +0.68933460 +0.71766306
e 0.4234497 Incl. 21.46985 +0.22320274 -0.08054489
P 1.81 H 19.0...
Four minor planets have been named after top Chinese scientists with the approval of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Minor Planet No. 17606 Wumengchao (1995 ST53) was named after Wu, according to a statement published by the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) under the IAU. Minor Planet No. 48...
Orbital elements:
2005 PH2 Earth MOID = 0.0907 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 33.38482 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.58037293 Peri. 343.47129 +0.17311426 -0.97984711
a 1.4234142 Node 96.47684 +0.91460037 +0.12239074
e 0.6041632 Incl. 5.75616 +0.36542799 +0.15786117
P 1.70 H 20.4 G 0.1...
Don’t miss the spectacular binary star event of the century: the now-imminent periastron passage of Gamma Virginis .
Gamma Virginis was named Porrima by the Romans, after two different goddesses o...
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, usually referred to simply as the University of Athens, is the oldest university in Southeast Europe and has been in continuous operation since its establishment in 1837. Read more
Wadi Faynan site 16 WF16 is located in the spectacular Wadi Faynan area of Southern Jordan. Evaluation of the site was undertaken between 1997 and 2006 with a monograph detailing results of the evaluation published in 2007 (Finlayson & Mithen 2007). Material remains at the site indicate that s...
Orbital elements:
2011 JA PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0002 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 345.22609 (2000.0) P Q
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a 1.1991284 Node 215.11548 +0.62553050 -0.75290067
e 0.2934072 Incl. 41.86129 -0.42189928 -0.10585765
P 1.31 H 21...
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