Changes to a "neglected" ocean current near the southern tip of Africa could keep Europe warm even if the Gulf Stream switches off, scientists say. Warm water in the Agulhas Current flows from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic where it brings changes further north. Researchers say this...
New T-ray device to explore cosmic radiation A miniscule sensor could lead to a better understanding of the formation of new stars, planets, and the hole in the ozone layer by studying an obscure wavelength of radiation. Scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have built th...
For budding time travellers, the future (or should that be the past?) is starting to look bleak. Hypothetical tunnels called wormholes once looked like the best bet for constructing a real time machine. These cosmic shortcuts, which link one point in the Universe to another, are fa...
Title: On the formation location of Uranus and Neptune as constrained by dynamical and chemical models of comets Authors: Jj Kavelaars, Olivier Mousis, Jean-Marc Petit, Harold A. Weaver The D/H enrichment observed in Saturn's satellite Enceladus is remarkably similar to the values observed i...
Title: LETSGO: a spacecraft-based mission to accurately measure the solar angular momentum with frame-dragging Authors: Lorenzo Iorio LETSGO (LEnse-Thirring Sun-Geo Orbiter) is a proposed space-based mission involving the use of a spacecraft moving along a highly eccentric heliocentric...
A group of Tibetans and supporters held a protest Wednesday night at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, to oppose the company's launch of a search site for China that censors results that Chinese authorities object to. The results include "Free Tibet," "Tibetan independence" a...
Scientists Discover 657 Islands Two U.S. researchers have found that the Earth has 657 more barrier islands than previously thought. The two geologists, Orrin Pilkey and Matthew Stutz, conducted a global survey of barrier islands using satellite images, topographical maps and navigational ch...
Russia has test-fired another three intercontinental ballistic missiles, a day after claiming a distance record for a missile fired from a submarine. President Dmitri Medvedev, who watched two of the launches, said they proved Russia's missile defences were strong. [url=http://news.bbc.co...
Teams of scientists have been sent to the Valley of Geysers, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia, to report on the condition of the World Heritage site after a massive landslide in the Kronotsky national reserve. The slide, which lasted only seconds on 3 June, loosed an estimated 4.5 m...
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2011 HH1 Earth MOID = 0.0807 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 309.14795 (2000.0) P Q
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Man Discovers New Life Form at South African Truck Stop Like many biologists, the German biologist Oliver Zompro spends thousands of hours looking at specimens of dead animals. He found his first new species when he was twenty. By the age of thirty he had named dozens of wild new forms. While other peo...
Heat pump can last 10 000 years Researchers now are testing an entirely new heat pump. While those we use today last ten to twenty years, the new one will last almost forever. The new heat pump consists of many miniature heat pumps as small as one cubic millimetre. To heat a house one needs several thousa...
Rising above the Acropolis - Constellation "Draco" signalled beginning of Athenian athletic festival new research shows When the dragon rose the games began! About 2,500 years ago, at a time when Athens was in its prime, the people of the city celebrated the birth of Athena, their patro...
Arianespace to launch COMS-1 for South Korea
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has chosen Arianespace to launch its COMS-1 multimission satellite.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace, and Dr. Hong-Yul Paik, President of KARI, signed the launch s...
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