Title: Hydra II: a faint and compact Milky Way dwarf galaxy found in the Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History Author: Nicolas F. Martin, David L. Nidever, Gurtina Besla, Knut Olsen, Alistair R. Walker, A. Katherina Vivas, Robert A. Gruendl, Ricardo R. Muñoz, Robert D. Blum, Abhijit Saha, Blair...
Title: PSR J1930-1852: a pulsar in the widest known orbit around another neutron star Author: J. K. Swiggum, R. Rosen, M. A. McLaughlin, D. R. Lorimer, S. Heatherly, R. Lynch, S. Scoles, T. Hockett, E. Filik, J. A. Marlowe, B. N. Barlow, M. Weaver, M. Hilzendeger, S. Ernst, R. Crowley, E. Stone, B. Mil...
Title: The Benchmark Eclipsing Binary V530 Ori: A Critical Test of Magnetic Evolution Models for Low-Mass Stars Author: Guillermo Torres, Claud H. Sandberg Lacy, Kresimir Pavlovski, Gregory A. Feiden, Jeffrey A. Sabby, Hans Bruntt, Jens Viggo Clausen We report accurate measurements of the phy...
South Australia asteroid strike you missed - by 300m years Evidence of a massive asteroid strike about 300 million years ago - the third-biggest ever found on Earth - has been discovered in South Australia. Research from the Australian National University says the East Warburton Basin in northeas...
Orbital elements:
2014 OX299 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0386 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 322.24733 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29263405 Peri. 279.77318 +0.21413829 -0.97587800
a 2.2469124 Node 157.72360 +0.93440356 +0.19196712
e 0.8610887 Incl. 6.43845 +0.28466609 +0.10397475
P 3.37 H...
Orbital elements:
2015 FQ35 Earth MOID = 0.0030 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 44.79792 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.35504989 Peri. 331.32544 -0.81768031 -0.57553522
a 1.9751942 Node 173.49440 +0.54708816 -0.78369154
e 0.5204606 Incl. 6.37223 +0.17914646 -0.23363815
P 2.78 H 25.6 G...
Orbital elements:
P/2011 R3 (Novichonok)
T 2011 Aug. 23.35669 TT MPC
q 3.5852086 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.09206921 Peri. 189.67625 +0.94520014 -0.32236318
a 4.8572796 Node 189.62059 +0.31642393 +0.94353338
e 0.2618896 Incl. 18.04041 +0.08045246 +0.07633302
P 10.7
From 44 observations 2011...
The 37 - 83 metre wide asteroid 2015 FL35 will make a close pass (10.2 LD, 0.0262 AU) travelling at 13.75 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th March 2015 @ 13:35 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 12 - 27 metre wide asteroid 2015 FN34 will make a close pass (8.0 LD, 0.0206 AU) travelling at 11.49 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th March 2015 @ 05:18 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
This nova in constellation Vulpecula was discovered by Pere Dom Voiture Anthelme (ca. 1618 - Dec 14, 1683), a Carthusian monk in Dijon, France, on June 20, 1670. He discovered it as a star of about 3rd magnitude. It was independently noted by Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1689) from Danzig on July 25, 1670...
The 36 - 81 metre wide asteroid 2015 FJ35 will make a close pass (60.6 LD, 0.1557 AU) travelling at 12.28 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th March 2015 @ 13:32 UT ±00:16. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Title: The Star Formation & Chemical Evolution History of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Authors: T. J. L. de Boer, E. Tolstoy, V. Hill, A. Saha, K. Olsen, E. Starkenburg, B. Lemasle, M. J. Irwin, G. Battaglia We have combined deep photometry in the B,V and I bands from CTIO/MOSAIC of the Sc...