Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites ESA and Eurockot today signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's GMES programme. The contract signing by Matthias Oehm...
Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (27 October [7 November old style] 1728 - 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first Euro...
Orbital elements: 2009 BE58 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0041 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 220.06193 (2000.0) P Q n 1.08061784 Peri. 121.01876 +0.00718865 +0.99983582 a 0.9404910 Node 149.37979 -0.92823115 +0.01285870 e 0.5646440 Incl. 1.87137 -0.37193449 -0.01276670 P 0.91 H 21.5 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2015 XP Earth MOID = 0.0002 AU
Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC
M 7.47935 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.37991744 Peri. 24.73127 -0.11069007 -0.99056428
a 1.8880344 Node 71.70692 +0.89709506 -0.13457735
e 0.4938070 Incl. 4.88237 +0.42774777 +0.02591023
P 2.59 H 25.6 G 0.15 U...
NGC 2193 (also ESO 86-SC57) is a magnitude +13.4 open star cluster located in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado. The cluster was discovered by John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape Town, on the 3rd December 1834. Ri...
NGC 791 (also MCG 1-6-31, UGC 1511 and PGC 7702) is a magnitude +13.3 elliptical galaxy located 369 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the Copenhagen Observa...
NGC 2509 (also ESO 561-SC7 and OCL 630) is a magnitude +9.3 open star cluster located 2975±49 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. The cluster was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector in Datchet, on the 3rd Dece...
NGC 2787 (also IRAS 09148+6924, UGC 4914 and PGC 26341) is a magnitude +11.8 barred lenticular galaxy located 24 ± 4 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum ref...
Title: Detection of a Hot Gaseous Halo Around the Giant Spiral Galaxy NGC 1961 Authors: Michael E. Anderson, Joel N. Bregman Hot gaseous halos are predicted around all large galaxies and are critically important for our understanding of galaxy formation, but they have never been detected at dista...
Orbital elements:
2015 LG2 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0177 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 327.82791 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.71485776 Peri. 189.12472 +0.78418957 +0.56552788
a 1.2387670 Node 133.20277 -0.54492908 +0.82449676
e 0.1686089 Incl. 20.50949 -0.29681480 -0.01957853
P 1.38 H...
Bid to drill deep inside Earth Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth's crust for the first time. They want to sample rock from the planet's mantle - its deep interior. In the process, the researchers hope to check their assumptions abou...
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