Title: SN 2013ej in M74: A Luminous and Fast-declining Type II-P Supernova Author: Fang Huang, Xiaofeng Wang, Jujia Zhang, Peter J. Brown, Luca Zampieri, Maria Letizia Pumo, Tianmeng Zhang, Juncheng Chen, Jun Mo, Xulin Zhao We present extensive ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared observa...
Title: The Size Distributions of Asteroid Families in the SDSS Moving Object Catalog 4 Authors: Alex H. Parker, Zeljko Ivezic, Mario Juric, Robert H. Lupton, Michael D. Sekora, Adam F. Kowalski Asteroid families, traditionally defined as clusters of objects in orbital parameter space, often ha...
Title: First Science Results From SOFIA/FORCAST: Super-Resolution Imaging of the S140 Cluster at 37\micron Authors: Paul M. Harvey, Joseph D. Adams, Terry L. Herter, George Gull, Justin Schoenwald, Luke D. Keller, James M. De Buizer, William Vacca, William Reach, E. E. Becklin We present 37\mi...
Title: KOI-372: a young extrasolar system with two giant planets on wide and eccentric orbits Author: L. Mancini, J. Lillo-Box, J. Southworth, L. Borsato, D. Gandolfi, S. Ciceri, D. Barrado, R. Brahm, Th. Henning We confirm the planetary nature of KOI-372b (aka Kepler object of interest K00372.0...
Cosmologists from Princeton University have proposed a new technique that will be able to determine if the cosmic acceleration (expansion of the universe) is due to a yet unknown form of Dark Energy in the universe or if it is a signature of a breakdown of Einstein's theory of Gener...
Title: Einstein@Home Discovery of a PALFA Millisecond Pulsar in an Eccentric Binary Orbit Author: B. Knispel, A. G. Lyne, B. W. Stappers, P. C. C. Freire, P. Lazarus, B. Allen, C. Aulbert, O. Bock, S. Bogdanov, A. Brazier, F. Camilo, F. Cardoso, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes, F. Crawford, J. S. Deneva,...
Title: Dark Matter as a Possible New Energy Source for Future Rocket Technology Authors: Jia Liu (Version v2) Current rocket technology can not send the spaceship very far, because the amount of the chemical fuel it can take is limited. We try to use dark matter (DM) as fuel to solve this problem. In th...
Title: The K2-ESPRINT Project I: Discovery of the Disintegrating Rocky Planet with a Cometary Head and Tail EPIC 201637175b Author: R. Sanchis-Ojeda, S. Rappaport, E. Pallé, L. Delrez, J. DeVore, D. Gandolfi, A. Fukui, I. Ribas, K. G. Stassun, S. Albrecht, F. Dai, E. Gaidos, M. Gillon, T. Hirano, M...
The 33 - 75 metre wide asteroid 2015 HZ will make a close pass (32.9 LD, 0.0844 AU) travelling at 5.92 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th May 2015 @ 09:35 UT ±00:05. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
James Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. Read more James Clerk...
Mergers of Galaxy Clusters Can Trigger Star Formation An international team of astronomers, led by Andra Stroe of Leiden Observatory and David Sobral of Leiden and the University of Lisbon observed the merging galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301, nicknamed the 'Sausage'. They used a custom-desig...
Orbital elements:
2015 HX176 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0361 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 13.10521 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.14417699 Peri. 123.14678 -0.72904872 -0.67203163
a 3.6019589 Node 15.99056 +0.35608848 -0.53441513
e 0.7887911 Incl. 28.12307 +0.58454167 -0.51261483
P 6.84 H...