* Astronomy

Title: Where are the Uranus Trojans? Authors: Rudolf Dvorak, Ákos Bazsó, Li-Yong Zhou The area of stable motion for fictitious Trojan asteroids around Uranus' equilateral equilibrium points is investigated with respect to the size of the regions and their shape in dependence of the inclination...

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Russia gained 4.5 square kilometres from a 2007 quake on Sakhalin Island and from lava flows this summer on uninhabited Matua Island, both of which lie north of Japan, said geologist Boris Levin. The powerful 2007 quake near the Sakhalin Island town of Nevelsk lifted part of the sea floor, said Levin...

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Orbital elements: 2009 UD19 Earth MOID = 0.0359 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 9.75868 (2000.0) P Q n 0.44831836 Peri. 245.47986 +0.00088634 -0.99966948 a 1.6907460 Node 204.51087 +0.93843734 +0.00970721 e 0.4360397 Incl. 3.55069 +0.34544836 -0.02380547 P 2.20 H 23.5 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...

Estonia becomes fifth ESA European Cooperating State ESA's Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, Peter Hulsroj, and Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, Juhan Parts, signed the Cooperation Agreement on 10 November in Tallinn. Estonia becomes the fifth Europ...

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Orbital elements: 2009 VQ25 Earth MOID = 0.1836 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 34.38858 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45785382 Peri. 6.12452 +0.95296218 -0.21720309 a 1.6671890 Node 13.90480 +0.22708031 +0.04972018 e 0.5121899 Incl. 61.60128 +0.20074266 +0.97485933 P 2.15 H 18.6 G 0.15 U 9 [url...

Orbital elements: 2009 VT1 Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 22.93283 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35305966 Peri. 177.87558 +0.81515790 -0.57923219 a 1.9826101 Node 217.52142 +0.53137413 +0.74969349 e 0.5022121 Incl. 0.26061 +0.23056266 +0.32007770 P 2.79 H 29.4 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...

Discovery of the universe's hottest gas in a galaxy cluster Researchers focused on a distant object called the RXJ1347 galaxy cluster in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy cluster is located about 5 billion light years from the earth. It extends to about 5 million light years in total and is known...

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Orbital elements: 2009 VL24 Earth MOID = 0.0104 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 44.64940 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40000283 Peri. 313.40574 +0.86486053 +0.50192418 a 1.8242905 Node 16.47397 -0.45047669 +0.78420430 e 0.5699277 Incl. 1.89975 -0.22155589 +0.36482287 P 2.46 H 24.4 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...

A suspected meteor spotted largely in the Bulkley Valley and Northern Interior also had a pair of witnesses here in the Comox Valley. Read more

In the sky above the Tomsk nuclear power station a meteor burnt up reports Life News. A 20-year-old student from Tahtamyshevo recorded the falling heavenly body on a mobile phone camera last Tuesday evening, 10th November. Read more (Russian)

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