Orbital elements:
2011 GE Earth MOID = 0.0069 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 295.18969 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.59317694 Peri. 213.12611 -0.15271167 +0.98819364
a 1.4028564 Node 48.09303 -0.90307572 -0.13446084
e 0.3763751 Incl. 0.95072 -0.40141423 -0.07344129
P 1.66 H 25.9 G 0.1...
Long March 3A rocket debris falling in rural China On April 9, rocket carrier "Chang Zheng-3A " (Long March 3A) debris - launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan - crashed in Tianlin, Guangxi. Long March 3A carried the Beidou-2 satellite into space. Local people saw thr...
Orbital elements:
2010 FC49
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 250.62132 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00405992 Peri. 295.77967 +0.45596139 +0.88978167
a 38.9156729 Node 1.76156 -0.39236924 +0.22082783
e 0.0663377 Incl. 39.83682 -0.79884016 +0.39940411
P 243 H 5.7 G 0.15 U 6 MPEC 2011 - G73
Orbital elements: 2010 BL4 Epoch 2010 Jan. 24.0 TT = JDT 2455220.5 MPC M 1.47826 (2000.0) P Q n 0.01215267 Peri. 255.81672 -0.49457189 -0.82952809 a 18.7364872 Node 226.91683 +0.86913539 -0.47150850 e 0.5426728 Incl. 20.80255 +0.00152556 -0.29927058 P 81.1 H 12.0 G 0.15 From 9 observations 2010...
The Figuring Out the Cold Classicals (FOCC) project is attempting to understand the origin of the cold classical population of Kuiper belt objects through a combined observational and computation program designed to determine the characteristics of this population and where objects with thes...
It has been claimed that as many as two out of five humans on the planet today owe their existence to the discoveries made by one brilliant German chemist. Yet this is the same chemist denounced by young German students today as a "murderer". No-one personifies better than Fritz Haber the d...
Named for the Norse god of thunder, thorium is a lustrous silvery-white metal. It's only slightly radioactive; you could carry a lump of it in your pocket without harm. On the periodic table of elements, it's found in the bottom row, along with other dense, radioactive substances - including uraniu...
On April 4, 1949, FBI agents in Utah sent a cable marked "urgent" to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. It said an Army guard at the Ogden Supply Depot, a Logan policeman and a Utah Highway Patrol officer in Mantua each saw from miles apart a UFO - which they said exploded over Utah. Under the title &...
Five people who were injured in a fire at a hotel in Star City, an enclosed community housing the Russian space research and cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow, have been hospitalised, Alexander Vorobyov, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), told Interfax. [url=h...
Mars in Catalonia A study coordinated by UAB's Geology Departament on the origin and evolution of peculiar morphologies created by ancient subterranean springs in the central pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia, Spain, pose new questions for planetary geomorphology research. Similar to small volcano...
Title: The Suzaku view of 3C 382 Authors: R. M. Sambruna (1), F. Tombesi (2,3), J. N. Reeves (4), V. Braito (5), L. Ballo (6), M. Gliozzi (1), C. S. Reynolds (3) ((1) George Mason University, (2) CRESST/NASA/GSFC, (3) University of Maryland, (4) Keele University, (5) University of Leicester, (6) CSI...
STS-1 was the first orbital flight of NASA's Space Shuttle, launched on 12 April 1981, and returning to Earth 14 April. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the Earth 37 times in this 54.5-hour mission. Read more
Acoustic test facility set up for ISRO satellites The state-run National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) has set up a state-of-the-art acoustic test facility for satellites of the Indian space agency in this tech hub. Located in the space agency's satellite integration and test establishment cam...
K-8 was a November class submarine of the Soviet Northern Fleet that sank in the Bay of Biscay with its nuclear weapons on board on April 12, 1970. Read more
