Seen as an alternative energy source, how safe are the country's atomic power stations from nature's threats? Concerned over the safety hazards at a nuclear plant in Rajasthan, an amateur astronomer Manoj Pai moved the Central Information Commission inquiring on precautionary measures taken b...
Orbital elements: 2009 AH16 Earth MOID = 0.2732 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 4.53277 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35092276 Peri. 329.43354 +0.88114764 -0.36059727 a 1.9906505 Node 54.87753 +0.47283580 +0.67507372 e 0.7604577 Incl. 21.95899 -0.00226779 +0.64361874 P 2.81 H 17.7 G 0.15 U 9MP...
Title: A first study of the galaxy HRG 2304 and its companion AM 1646-795 (NED01) Authors: E. Wenderoth, M. Faundez-Abans, A.C. Krabbe, M. de Oliveira-Abans, H. Cuevas Aims. We report the first study of the peculiar ring-like galaxy HRG 2304 (NED02),which was previously classified as a ring galax...
Orbital elements:
2011 HS Earth MOID = 0.0531 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 353.05749 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.19808419 Peri. 332.74006 -0.91726093 -0.39817473
a 2.9145366 Node 183.83308 +0.38631329 -0.88366198
e 0.7086539 Incl. 8.12565 +0.09692492 -0.24616741
P 4.98 H 21.3 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2011 HR Earth MOID = 0.2596 AU
Epoch 2011 Apr. 9.0 TT = JDT 2455660.5 MPC
M 260.50589 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.60684735 Peri. 222.53567 +0.61939613 +0.72147452
a 1.3817084 Node 88.20370 -0.61092242 +0.69058444
e 0.0936500 Incl. 18.04145 -0.49307426 +0.05067190
P 1.62 H 19.5 G 0....
Richard Weeden Underwood ("Dick") was born in Newport, RI on July 15, 1927 to the late John Burns Underwood and Mary Josephine Del Nero Underwood. Dick was chief engineer on the production of the first topographic maps of the moon. He was the first person to view every photograph from the G...
The 430 - 970 metre wide asteroid 2010 TU5 will make a close pass (35.2 lunar distances, 0.0904 AU), travelling at 18.72 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th April, 2011 @ 02:36 UT ±00:06. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Orbital elements:
2011 GJ3 Earth MOID = 0.0031 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 251.40864 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.81278969 Peri. 305.79099 +0.17602913 +0.98436381
a 1.1371487 Node 334.34529 -0.89827889 +0.15794719
e 0.2017439 Incl. 0.85390 -0.40262734 +0.07797801
P 1.21 H 26.1 G 0...
Resourcesat-2 Satellite Launch in January India's premier space agency ISRO will launch Resourcesat-2 advanced remote sensing satellite on board home-made PSLV rocket in January. The Bangalore-headquartered space agency held a mission readiness review in the Sriharikota spaceport in Andh...
A US congresswoman is in a critical condition after being shot at a public event in Arizona in an attack in which five people were killed. Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, 40, was shot in the head at close range in front of hundreds of people in Tucson. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
Rare Moon Green Flash Captured On Cerro Paranal, the 2600-metre-high mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert that is home to ESO's Very Large Telescope, the atmospheric conditions are so exceptional that fleeting events such as the green flash of the setting Sun are seen relatively frequently. Now, h...
Dwarf Galaxy: Small but Perfectly Formed Galaxies come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, with most being classed as either elliptical or spiral. However, some fall into the miscellaneous category known as irregulars, such as UGC 9128 shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. UGC 91...
Title: Optical spectroscopy of MT Dra in 2006 and 2009 Authors: A.M. Zubareva (1 and 2), V.V. Shimansky (3), N.V. Borisov (4), A.F. Valeev (4) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Russia, (2) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Russia, (3) Kazan Federal University, (4) Special Astrophysical Observator...
Gemini astronauts might have winged their way home if NASA's Paraglider Development Program had succeeded. On April 29, 1963, NASA set a Gemini flight schedule that included "water landing by a parachute, for the first six flights and land landing by paraglider from flight 7 on," said t...
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