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Undersea volcano threatens southern Italy Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday. The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with mag...
Title: Giant Nemesis candidate HD 107914 / HIP 60503 for the perforation of Oort cloud Authors: Igor Yu. Potemine So far, GJ 710 is the only known star supposed to pass through outskirts of the solar system within 1 ly. We have reexamined the SIMBAD database for additional stellar candidates (from hi...
About 200 million years ago, a large meteorite came hurtling through the darkness of outer space heading for a direct impact with planet Earth at the confluence of what would later become known as Houston, Stewart and Montgomery Counties in the state of Tennessee. The meteorite was nearly 300 metre...
Delta IV-M rocket body debris that was launched on the 4th November, 2006, from the Vandenberg air force base for the NAVSTAR DMSP F17 Military weather satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 19th April, 2010. TLE Data pre>DELTA 4 DEB 1 29586U 06050BC 10088.5303902...
On December 7, radio stations across the United States, Mexico, and Central America will broadcast the 5,000th episode of Universo to its 2.22 million listeners nationally and internationally. The daily, two-minute Spanish-language radio program from The University of Texas at Austin McDona...
Student-built spacecraft will be launched at WallopsNot much bigger than a child's toy block, two spacecraft designed and built by university students in Kentucky and California will fly in space for a short period this month to gather information that may be applied to future small Earth orbitin...
A magnitude 15.6 supernova, 2010O, was discovered by J. Newton and T. Puckett on the 24th January, 2010, in the galaxy NGC 3690 in the constellation Ursa Major. The supernova is located 3.7" East and 5.7" North from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 1...
Venus shines brightly low in the western sky as March begins. About 30 minutes after the Sun sets, look low on the western horizon to find Venus shining at a bright magnitude of -3.9. By the end of March, Venus is almost 12 degrees above the horizon 30 minutes after the Sun sets. On March 16, find Venus jus...
July 2, 1907 The corner of Church and College streets in Burlington was the site of a mysterious incident in 1907 in which people reported seeing a ball of fire that dropped toward the ground and exploded. It was followed by a downpour. It is a bolt out of the blue. Just a typical day - nothing seems unusua...
Orbital elements: 2010 EB46 Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 354.24207 (2000.0) P Q n 0.05165498 Peri. 29.46686 -0.83557849 +0.54858178 a 7.1404886 Node 175.82533 +0.39070586 +0.55572850 e 0.7926401 Incl. 156.14728 +0.38620916 +0.62467901 P 19.08 H 19.5 G 0.15 U 8 [url=http://www.m...
Orbital elements: 2010 FL48 Earth MOID = 0.1412 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 257.17753 (2000.0) P Q n 0.75534048 Peri. 51.75583 -0.64830252 +0.76112940 a 1.1941005 Node 177.54759 -0.75868385 -0.64795980 e 0.0712053 Incl. 27.32788 +0.06405199 +0.02881204 P 1.30 H 22.1 G 0.15 U 8 [...