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Michael Neander (originally Neumann) (April 3, 1529 - October 23, 1581) was a German teacher, mathematician, medical academic, and astronomer. The crater Neander on the Moon is named after him. Read more

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria

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Title: Cosmological implications of the KATRIN experiment Authors: Jostein R. Kristiansen, Oystein Elgaroy The upcoming Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment will put unprecedented constraints on the absolute mass of the electron neutrino, \mnue. In this paper we investigate how...

Orbital elements: 2011 GC Earth MOID = 0.1442 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 336.63371 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28347133 Peri. 337.44467 -0.73975842 +0.67173960 a 2.2950736 Node 244.81697 -0.61058122 -0.69451977 e 0.4981943 Incl. 2.47193 -0.28275086 -0.25769788 P 3.48 H 21.9 G 0....

Orbital elements: 2011 GB Earth MOID = 0.1114 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 346.83892 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25083427 Peri. 169.81288 -0.98380034 +0.17797402 a 2.4900695 Node 20.47679 -0.16849557 -0.87706889 e 0.5540965 Incl. 3.52314 -0.06120569 -0.44617868 P 3.93 H 25.1 G 0.1...

Orbital elements: 2011 GD Earth MOID = 0.0182 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 355.74095 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33934618 Peri. 305.94407 -0.78032909 -0.62509036 a 2.0356702 Node 195.39542 +0.59402932 -0.73156098 e 0.5482260 Incl. 4.03264 +0.19548834 -0.27217747 P 2.90 H 24.8 G 0....

Orbital elements: 2011 FF41 Earth MOID = 0.2243 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 247.05826 (2000.0) P Q n 0.71995754 Peri. 265.61772 -0.00183534 +0.99951518 a 1.2329102 Node 4.63248 -0.69461569 +0.02108496 e 0.0500857 Incl. 22.63380 -0.71937867 -0.02290920 P 1.37 H 23.6 G 0...

Orbital elements: 2011 FE41 Earth MOID = 0.1069 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 281.06284 (2000.0) P Q n 0.44310240 Peri. 320.45880 +0.69972892 +0.71423321 a 1.7039885 Node 353.88614 -0.61206492 +0.58791847 e 0.6325724 Incl. 8.54379 -0.36845078 +0.37976676 P 2.22 H 20.7 G...

Archaeologists Unearthed Village Dating Back to 11 Thousand Years in Southern Syria The small village unearthed in the archaeological site of Tel Qarasa (hill) in the west of Swaida province, dating back to around 11000 years constitute a clear example of the first models of urban life in the prehi...

Felis (Latin for cat) was a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1799. Read more

Title: Evidence of a distinct stellar population in the counter-rotating core of NGC 1700 Authors: K. Kleineberg (IAC), P. Sanchez-Blazquez (UAM), A. Vazdekis (IAC) We find a distinct stellar population in the counter-rotating and kinematically decoupled core of the isolated massive ellipti...

Orbital elements: 2009 UD Earth MOID = 0.0057 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 5.49691 (2000.0) P Q n 0.93127414 Peri. 261.36947 -0.26121578 -0.96478212 a 1.0385268 Node 203.84267 +0.91306108 -0.23653311 e 0.1204911 Incl. 4.40009 +0.31318651 -0.11509797 P 1.06 H 27.2 G 0.15 U 7 [url=...

Augustana College will mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of the John Deere Planetarium with an open house on Saturday, May 2, 2009. The John Deere Planetarium (820 38th Street), Carl Gamble Observatory and Fryxell Geology Museum will be open from 8:30 to 10 p.m., for both indoor and outdoor pr...

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