Title: Blazars in the early Universe Authors: Marta Volonteri, Francesco Haardt, Gabriele Ghisellini, Roberto Della Ceca We investigate the relative occurrence of radio--loud and radio-quiet quasars in the first billion years of the Universe, powered by black holes heavier than one billion s...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the name Firsoff for a 90-km-wide Martian crater located at 2.66°N, 9.42°W. The feature was named in honour of the English astronomer Valdemar Axel Firsoff (1910-1981).
Title: Mud volcanoes in the geologic record of Mars: The case of Firsoff crater Authors: M. Pondrelli, A.P. Rossi, G.G. Ori, S. van Gasselt, D. Praeg, S. Ceramicola We report the detection of mound-like landforms interpreted as mud volcanoes within Firsoff crater, in the Arabia Terra region of Mar...
Asteroid (7367) Giotto makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.801 AU) on the 30th March, 2011. Asteroid (7367) Giotto is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 26, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. [url=http://en.w...
Backside Illumination Technology Improves Image Quality, Enables Design Shrinks Down to 0.9 Micron Pixels OmniVision Technologies, Inc., the world's largest supplier of CMOS image sensors, today launched its OmniBSITM architecture, a novel sensor design that adopts a radically different a...
Bright Light Shoots Across Oklahoma Sky News 9 received numerous reports of a bright light that shot across the Oklahoma sky Wednesday night. Many of the reports were in western and central Oklahoma, but some people claimed to have seen the light as far east as Stillwater and Stroud. [url=http://ww...
Libya's ancient heritage sites suffer from neglect A toga-clad statue that would be a prize museum piece elsewhere lies half buried among cow dung at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in eastern Libya, where the countrys wealth in antiquities has suffered decades of neglect. Goats and cows graze amo...
Amazon has unveiled an online music service that lets users to upload songs and play them from a range of devices. Read more All new Amazon Cloud Drive accounts are given 5GB of free storage for uploading content. Additional storag...
Title: Early Pioneers of Telescopic Astronomy in India: G.V.Juggarow and His Observatory Authors: N. Kameswara Rao, A.Vagiswari, Christina Birdie (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore) G.V.Juggarow was one of the early pioneers of observational astronomy in India who built his own o...
Asteroid (7000) Curie makes its closest approach to the Earth (2.126 AU) on the 29th March, 2011. Asteroid (7000) Curie (1939 VD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 6, 1939 by Fernand Rigaux at Uccle. It was named after French-Polish scientist Marie Curie. [url=http://en.wikipedia....
China 'to overtake US on science' in two years China is on course to overtake America in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 - far earlier than expected. That is the startling conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK's national science academy. The country that invented the c...
Orbital elements:
2011 FV6 Earth MOID = 0.0215 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 1.96926 (2000.0) P Q
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a 1.9073664 Node 13.96827 +0.86161993 +0.13121969
e 0.7455664 Incl. 6.11095 +0.48005985 +0.10293361
P 2.63 H 24.9 G 0.15 U...
Orbital elements:
2011 FV9 Earth MOID = 0.0510 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC
M 39.97327 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.82794199 Peri. 23.10908 +0.28988536 -0.95610670
a 1.1232319 Node 50.06783 +0.86915603 +0.24430271
e 0.3377280 Incl. 3.19498 +0.40066728 +0.16179049
P 1.19 H 23.0 G 0.15...
