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Orbital elements: 2011 FG Earth MOID = 0.3051 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 356.83107 (2000.0) P Q n 0.53648334 Peri. 330.79274 -0.89248511 -0.44637726 a 1.5000252 Node 184.56073 +0.35236359 -0.77979841 e 0.1451916 Incl. 54.75964 -0.28162071 +0.43893254 P 1.84 H 21.4 G 0...

Asteroid (11885) Summanus is an Apollo family NEAR asteroid. Discovered on the 25th September 1990 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak., it has an orbit characterised by a semi-major axis of 1.7031192 AU and an eccentricity of 0.4744898, and an 19.41687° inclination to the ecliptic. The asteroid is dedica...

Orbital elements: P/2010 C1 (Scotti) Epoch 2009 Nov. 25.0 TT = JDT 2455160.5 T 2009 Dec. 1.27027 TT MPC q 5.2350479 (2000.0) P Q n 0.05250310 Peri. 3.63533 -0.82530213 -0.55616671 a 7.0633826 Node 142.03412 +0.51400428 -0.81156060 e 0.2588469 Incl. 9.14264 +0.23382899 -0.17901947 P 18.77 [url=...

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Holbox Island and the Yalahau Lagoon Holbox Island and the Yalahau Lagoon on the northeast corner of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are featured in this satellite image. Holbox is a 42-km-long island running along the peninsula's coast that is separated from the mainland by Yalahau Lagoon. One of the...

Emergency crews report no plane crash, just meteor What was first called in as a plane crashing to the ground, in the end, turns out to be a meteor. Around 9 p.m. Wednesday, emergency crews were called to Ayr after residents in the area reported seeing something on fire falling from the sky. [url=http:...

Archaeologists discover sabre-toothed vegetarian Surprised scientists have discovered the remains of a sabre-toothed vegetarian. Researchers report that the leaf-crunching animal lived 260 million years ago in what is now Brazil. It was about the size of a large dog and had nearly 5-inch lon...

NASA Satellite Attends the Birth of Tropical Storm Bune in Southern Pacific It's not unusual for NASA satellites to attend the birth of tropical cyclones, and NASA's Aqua satellite was there when Tropical Cyclone Bune was born early today in the South Pacific Ocean. [url=http://www.nasa.gov/mi...

Arianespace to launch HYLAS Avanti Communications Group plc, has chosen Arianespace to launch the HYLAS telecommunications satellite. This new contract is the 11th signed by Arianespace with the major satellite operators. The launch of the HYLAS (Highly Adaptable Satellite) satellite is pla...

This spring, scientists will try to retrieve the deepest types of rock ever extracted from beneath the seabed. The drilling project is taking place off Costa Rica, and will attempt to reach some 2km under the ocean floor. Writing in the journal Nature, the co-chief scientists say their ultimate goa...

Title: XMM-Newton observations of the X-ray soft polar QS Telescopii Authors: I. Traulsen, K. Reinsch, A. D. Schwope, V. Burwitz, S. Dreizler, R. Schwarz, F. M. Walter Context. On the basis of XMM-Newton observations, we investigate the energy balance of selected magnetic cataclysmic varia...

Asteroid (2161) Grissom makes its closest approach to the Earth (2.187 AU) on the 24th March. 2011.

Asteroid (2421) Nininger makes its closest approach to the Earth (2.407 AU) on the 24th March, 2011.

ASTRON performs first successful astronomical observations with a Focal Plane Array ASTRON has performed the first successful astronomical observations with a so-called Focal Plane Array (FPA), installed on one of the fourteen dishes of the Westerbork telescope. Focal Plane Arrays are clust...

A Mayan sculpture that fetched 2.9m euros ($4.2m, £2.5m) at a Paris auction is a fake, Mexican officials believe. The French auction house Drouot maintains that the statue, of a masked figure carrying a shield, is genuine and more than 1,000 years old. But Mexico's National Institute of Anthropolo...