Yesterday I received the sad news that Professor Stanisaw Gorgolewski died age 84. Professor Gorgolewki, or Stan, was one of the founders of radio astronomy in Poland. Stan studied physics in Poland after the war and went on to spend some of his PhD at the University of Cambridge working with Martin R...
An international scientific-mountaineering team discovered in 2004 what appears to be one of the world’s largest meteoroid impact craters.
Prof Van der Hoeven first realised that there may have been a giant asteroid strike in the Antarctic while on an expedition across the continent in 1960 wh...
Orbital elements:
2006 SO78 Earth MOID = 0.1651 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 259.18819 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.38235763 Peri. 352.51118 +0.99822494 +0.05463359
a 1.8799929 Node 4.56265 -0.02596746 +0.75752975
e 0.5602711 Incl. 17.34027 -0.05359713 +0.65051045
P 2.58 H 18.9 G 0...
Three months after quarry firm Tarmac was refused planning permission to expand its operations near Thornborough Henges, north of Ripon (North Yorkshire, England), the company has formally lodged an appeal against the decision. The move comes as no big surprise, as Tarmac had indicated...
Vicious Storm Hits Neighbourhood In Birmingham, Ala. Rescue crews are searching through a neighbourhood of Birmingham, Ala., looking for survivors from a powerful storm. Mayor William Bell tells Steve Inskeep that houses, churches and businesses are "just gone." [url=http://www...
Prehistoric Nidderdale Project Some facts about Nidderdale's pre-history are well known but fieldwork recently carried out by by landowners and community archaeology projects in the area is bringing many new and exciting features to light - such as these at Dacre and Gouthwaite. [url=http://...
LROC observes feature that may be of volcanic origin Along the embayed Eddington crater rim is an ~1.5 km dome that may be an ancient volcano with a summit pit crater. Volcanic features are observed all over the Moon, but sometimes it is difficult to tell whether an observed feature is of volcanic or...
Orbital elements:
2011 HR4 Earth MOID = 0.0801 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 87.76498 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.13037741 Peri. 350.47726 +0.78771921 -0.60709516
a 0.9126839 Node 47.43492 +0.57413261 +0.66195485
e 0.2275874 Incl. 8.16210 +0.22331636 +0.43960350
P 0.87 H 24.5 G 0.1...
Orbital elements:
2011 HQ4 Earth MOID = 0.0385 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 344.95957 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.28009056 Peri. 248.11911 -0.98734025 +0.15829768
a 2.3135048 Node 300.98772 -0.14085636 -0.90416664
e 0.5522998 Incl. 0.67191 -0.07292946 -0.39676761
P 3.52 H 25.5 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 GK71
Epoch 2011 Apr. 9.0 TT = JDT 2455660.5 MPC
M 9.89543 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00494804 Peri. 99.59529 -0.38294802 -0.77939112
a 34.1072699 Node 33.66220 -0.09920812 -0.49900051
e 0.7924731 Incl. 63.45956 +0.91842722 -0.37887725
P 199 H 8.6 G 0.15
From 22 observation...
The Wolf-Rayet star WR123 is even weirder than astronomers ever suspected.
The new findings, by Laure Lefevre and Anthony Moffat (Universite de Montreal), Sergey Marchenko (Western Kentucky University) using the Canadian MOST astronomical space telescope, are based on ove...
Yi Sun-sin (April 28, 1545 - December 16, 1598) was a Korean naval commander noted for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon Dynasty. Read more ...
Orbital elements:
2007 RX19 Earth MOID = 0.2503 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 45.27237 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.36021971 Peri. 97.02049 +0.01638227 -0.99295729
a 1.9562502 Node 349.58060 +0.44565671 +0.11230051
e 0.5329292 Incl. 40.45030 +0.89505403 -0.03774139
P 2.74 H 18.4 G 0...
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