Minimum of U Ophiuchi variable star at 5:25 GMT, 9th January, 2011. Magnitude=6.6mag Max=5.8mag Period= 1.7days Type: Eclipsing Algol type binary Eclipse begins at about 2:09 and ends at 8:35 GMT. Position(2000): RA=17 16 31.7159, Dec= +01 12 37.964
An isolated community near the Black Sea coast in a remote part of north-eastern Turkey has been found to speak a Greek dialect that is remarkably close to the extinct language of ancient Greece. As few as 5,000 people speak the dialect but linguists believe that it is the closest, living language to a...
Next time you are in Srirangapatna, watch out for the sundials near the Jamia Masjid and the Hyder Ali tombstone areas. The sundials at Srirangapatna have braved the ravages of time.It was Tipu who got the sundials installed at the two spots. They have been placed on a black stone raised by two pillars...
Orbital elements: 2010 WF3 Earth MOID = 0.1776 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 280.06059 (2000.0) P Q n 0.88324313 Peri. 163.60481 -0.72569571 +0.66863028 a 1.0758438 Node 59.50528 -0.65048868 -0.58999975 e 0.2676668 Incl. 10.84797 -0.22412099 -0.45258572 P 1.12 H 20.9 G 0.15 U 4 MP...
Luna 21 (Ye-8 series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 21. The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover (Lunokhod 2). Read more Launch: 8 January 1973 at 06:55:38 UT...
The 220 - 490 metre wide asteroid 2002 AV31 will make a close pass (73.0 lunar distances, 0.1877 AU), travelling at 11.52 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th August, 2010 @ 06:06 UT. See more The Lunar Distance...
Asteroid (106) Dione is at Opposition at 14:10 UT, 8th January, 2011. Distance to Sun=2.965 AU Distance to Earth=1.984 AU Magnitude=11.5 mag Elongation=175.1° Ephemeris Date RA (J2000) Dec Const- Mag- Radius Delta Elonga- ella. nitude tion 2011 h m s o ' " mag AU AU o Jan 7 7:20:30.2 +27:06:...
Mysterious orb seen in sky over Ealing A 'fireball' travelling through the night sky has ignited neighbours' curiosity about the presence of unexplained phenomena in our atmosphere. The orange orb was spotted by Lorraine Donovan from her living room window on December 28 at about 8.15pm. [url=ht...
The QBX1 satellite that was launched on the 8th December, 2010, from the Launch Complex 40 at the Air Force Station at Cape Canaveral, with SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 6th January, 2011 @ 20:53 GMT ±17 hours. TLE Data pre>QBX1 1 37249U 10...
Title: Discovery and Cosmological Implications of SPT-CL J2106-5844, the Most Massive Known Cluster at z > 1 Authors: R. J. Foley, K. Andersson, G. Bazin, T. de Haan, J. Ruel, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, R. Armstrong, M. L. N. Ashby, M. Bautz, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, M. Bonamente, M. Brodwin, J. E. Car...
Title: Powerful Winds from Low-Mass Stars: V374 Peg Authors: A. A. Vidotto (1), M. Jardine (1), M. Opher (2), J.-F. Donati (3), T. I. Gombosi (4) ((1) Univ. of St Andrews - UK, (2) George Mason University - USA, (3) Obs. Midi-Pyrenees - France, (4) University of Michigan - USA) (Version v2) The rapid ro...
Title: The California Planet Survey III. A Possible 2:1 Resonance in the Exoplanetary Triple System HD 37124 Authors: J. T. Wright, Dimitri Veras, Eric B. Ford, John Asher Johnson, G. W. Marcy, A. W. Howard, H. Isaacson, D. A. Fischer, J. Spronk, J. Anderson, J. Valenti We present new radial velocit...
