* Astronomy

Title: Quasi-satellite dynamics in formation flight Author: Seppo Mikkola, Claudiu-Lucian Prioroc The quasi-satellite (QS) phenomenon makes two celestial bodies to fly near each other (Mikkola et al. 2006) and that effect can be used also to make artificial satellites move in tandem. We consi...

Title: KIC 9246715: The Double Red Giant Eclipsing Binary With Odd Oscillations Author: Meredith L. Rawls, Patrick Gaulme, Jean McKeever, Jason Jackiewicz, Jerome A. Orosz, Enrico Corsaro, Paul Beck, Benoît Mosser, David W. Latham, Christian A. Latham We combine Kepler photometry with ground...

Title: Toroidal vs. poloidal magnetic fields in Sun-like stars: a rotation threshold Authors: P. Petit, B. Dintrans, S.K. Solanki, J.-F. Donati, M. Auriere, F. Lignieres, J. Morin, F. Paletou, J. Ramirez, C. Catala, R. Fares (Version v2) From a set of stellar spectropolarimetric observations,...

Asteroid 2015 XT makes its closest approach to the Earth (0.080 AU) on the 5th January 2016.

The Villalbeto de la Peña (L6) meteorite fell in Castilla y Leon, Spain, on the 4th January 2004. A total mass of 3.5 kg was recovered. 42° 48'N, 4° 40'W

Orbital elements: 2016 AM2 Earth MOID = 0.0000 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 19.34700 (2000.0) P Q n 0.37525351 Peri. 311.08191 +0.69433963 -0.71766014 a 1.9036461 Node 94.85733 +0.67530327 +0.62408895 e 0.5457651 Incl. 3.07471 +0.24871265 +0.30899339 P 2.63 H 26.9 G 0....

Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart has designed a new periodic table of the elements. American schools are placing orders daily for Stewart's table, and the Royal Society of Chemists recently sent a copy to every British secondary school. Stewart's is the only remake to achieve widespread...

New 113th Element Has Been Discovered at RIKEN On July 23 at 18:55, an event that strongly confirmed the creation of the 113th element was observed by a research team directed by Dr. Kosuke Morita of RIKEN. For 80 days, the team bombarded a 209Bi target with an intense 70Zn beam from the "RILAC&qu...

A moderate magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurred at 19:51:07 (UTC) on Thursday, September 03, 2009, in the Myanmar-Indian border region, 95 km ESE of Imphal, at a depth of 97.6 km. Location 24.318°N, 94.712°E

ATel 8502: ASASSN-16ab: Discovery of A Bright, Nearby Supernova Candidate in Dwarf Galaxy PGC 037392 Mag 14.7V

HIP 85605 is a star in the constellation Hercules with a visual apparent magnitude of 11.03. It may be a M dwarf or K-type main-sequence star potentially 1828 light-years (5.68.5 parsecs) from the Sun. Read more

Comet 196P/Tichy is at Opposition (3.651 AU) on the 3rd June, 2013. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 06 01 16 40 50.6 -41 22 38 3.6582 4.6270 160.6 4.2 23.0 2013 06 02 16 39 57.0 -41 23 02 3.6547 4.6243 160.8 4.1 23.0 2013 06 03 16 39 03.2 -41 23 19 3.6513 4.6216 160.9 4.1 23...

W Virginis (also SAO 139335, and HD 116802) is a giant yellow pulsating star, which varies between magnitudes 9.46 and 10.75 over a period of 17.2736 days. The star is located 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The star is the prototype variable star, that exhibit pulsation period...

Ascension Island is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. An ESA station was built there in 1991, as the NASA station providing support to Ariane launches was about to be closed. The United States maintains a GPS monitor station and missile tracking sites on the island. [img]http://static....

ATel 8496: ASAS-SN Discovery of A Probable Supernova in UGC 04251 Mag 16.8V