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WoRMS catalogue downsizes ocean life A mammoth effort to catalogue all known ocean life is nearly complete. It has taken taxonomic experts eight years to pull together all existing databases and compile one super-definitive list, known as the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Read more

ISS Exp 42 Farewells and Hatch Closure Spoiler

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Starless planets may be habitable after all Liquid water may survive on free-floating planets that have no star to warm them. If they also support life, they could act as stepping stones to spread life around the galaxy. Gravitational tussles with other planets or passing stars can eject planets fr...

Title: The Proper Motion of the Local Group Galaxy IC 10 Authors: A. Brunthaler (1), M.J. Reid (2), H. Falcke (3,4), C. Henkel (1), K.M. Menten (1) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, (3) ASTRON, (4) Universiteit N...

Title: HATS-13b and HATS-14b: two transiting hot Jupiters from the HATSouth survey Author: L. Mancini, J. D. Hartman, K. Penev, G. A. Bakos, R. Brahm, S. Ciceri, Th. Henning, Z. Csubry, D. Bayliss, G. Zhou, M. Rabus, M. de Val-Borro, N. Espinoza, A. Jordan, V. Suc, W. Bhatti, B. Schmidt, B. Sato, T. G....

Title: Chandra, XMM-Newton and HST observations of a transient in M31 with a possible asymmetric, precessing disk Author: R. Barnard, M. R. Garcia, S. S. Murray The transient X-ray source CXOM31 004205.77+411330.43 exhibited several outbursts during our long-term monitoring campaign of ~mon...

German-Japanese Expedition Uncovers the Traces of the Tohoku Earthquake One year ago, on March 11, 2011, a devastating earthquake struck off the north-eastern shore of Honshu. The Tohoku quake and the subsequent Tsunami killed more than 15,000 people. Now, one year later, German and Japanese s...

The 220 - 490 metre wide asteroid 2015 BW3 will make a close pass (72.1 LD, 0.1852 AU) travelling at 12.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th March 2015 @ 03:35 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Orbital elements: 2015 EK Earth MOID = 0.0069 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 35.88162 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46905645 Peri. 221.45248 -0.87805224 +0.47817569 a 1.6405368 Node 347.07309 -0.41322672 -0.77789209 e 0.4300773 Incl. 4.94784 -0.24138754 -0.40771547 P 2.10 H 26.3 G 0....

The 440 - 990 metre wide asteroid (141527) 2002 FG7 will make a close pass (17.1 LD, 0.0440 AU) travelling at 19.02 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th March 2015 @ 10:13 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 18 - 40 metre wide asteroid 2015 EP will make a close pass (7.0 LD, 0.0179 AU) travelling at 6.01 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th March 2015 @ 18:21 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Orbital elements: 2014 UN114 Earth MOID = 0.0012 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 191.66112 (2000.0) P Q n 1.16040908 Peri. 38.68466 -0.46104911 +0.88704516 a 0.8968682 Node 203.88966 -0.82827381 -0.43996007 e 0.1606484 Incl. 3.42279 -0.31842773 -0.13995007 P 0.85 H 24.6 G...

Orbital elements: 2015 EF Earth MOID = 0.0064 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 28.57539 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49515603 Peri. 253.83108 -0.44143832 +0.89705431 a 1.5823699 Node 349.89851 -0.77174913 -0.39130661 e 0.5144703 Incl. 6.75634 -0.45775047 -0.20535994 P 1.99 H 26.8 G 0....

Orbital elements: C/2014 N3 (NEOWISE) T 2015 Mar. 15.67509 TT MPC q 3.8456095 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 354.49160 +0.95235250 -0.06867674 Node 19.71840 +0.30249604 +0.08810145 e 1.0 Incl. 61.73445 +0.03899821 +0.99374123 From 49 observations 2014 July 4-11. MPEC 2014 - N72