Australia Telescope National Facility / Anglo Australian Observatory Joint Colloquium Thursday 21 April 2011 15:30 to 16:30 ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre Probing gravity with galaxy surveys Modifications of gravity are studied with growing interest in cosmology. A strong motivation comes...
Orbital elements:
2011 GV9 Earth MOID = 0.0596 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 322.59552 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.52321870 Peri. 2.61517 -0.86116437 +0.50794629
a 1.5252717 Node 207.93938 -0.46713877 -0.80604548
e 0.3019073 Incl. 2.40478 -0.20044277 -0.30377827
P 1.88 H 26.4 G 0.1...
GOES-13 Sees an Extraordinarily Early Atlantic Low in the Tropics Larger image Hurricane season doesn't start in the Northern Atlantic Ocean until June 1, but a low pressure system in doesn't seem to want to follow the calendar. There's a low pressure area with a small chance for development north-...
Rendez-vous les 21 et 22 mai pour tous les fans de BD. Lancé en 2001, le salon européen de la BD prépare, pour les journées des 20, 21 et 22 mai, le gâteau de son dixième anniversaire. A cette occasion, déjà parrain de la première édition, Albert Uderzo, président d'honneur de la manifestation, a dessin...
Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants
Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation sugges...
A massive scientific balloon which was part of a research project for NASA has touched down in Longreach in central-west Queensland. The multi-million-dollar balloon was launched in Alice Springs on Tuesday as part of NASA's study of the Milky Way galaxy. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...
Iran sends first 'life capsule' into orbit Iran says it has sent the country's first space capsule that is able to sustain life into orbit as a test for a future mission that may carry a live animal The state IRNA news agency says the capsule was carried by a rocket dubbed Kavoshgar-4 - or Explorer-4 in Fa...
Russian astronomers suggest celebrating 50th anniversary of Earths first artificial satellite carrying the dog called Laika to the stars by setting a bronze monument to the brave dog. Read more [url=http://nkj.ru/news/10585/]Sou...
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Title: WZ Cygni: a Marginal Contact Binary in a Triple System? Authors: Jae Woo Lee, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Ho-Il Kim, Jang-Ho Park, Tobias Cornelius Hinse We present new multiband CCD photometry for WZ Cyg made on 22 nights in two observing seasons of 2007 and 2008. Our light-curve synthesis...
Title: A giant radio halo in the low luminosity X-ray cluster Abell 523 Authors: G. Giovannini, L. Feretti, M. Girardi, F. Govoni, M. Murgia, V. Vacca, J. Bagchi Radio halos are extended and diffuse non-thermal radio sources present at the cluster center, not obviously associated with any individ...
Vädersolstavlan (Swedish for "The Sun Dog Painting") is an oil-on-panel painting depicting a halo display, an atmospheric optical phenomenon, observed over Stockholm on April 20, 1535. It is named after the sun dogs (Swedish: Vädersol, "Weather sun") appearing on the up...
