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Scientists have located 38 emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica by using satellites to look for stains from the animals' droppings. It is impossible to track the penguins themselves using standard satellite imaging because they are too small. However, penguins cluster for up to eight months o...

The 120 - 270 metre wide asteroid 1998 HE3 will make a close pass (37.9 lunar distances, 0.0973 AU), travelling at 15.17 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd February, 2011 @ 06:40 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

Orbital elements: 2002 GM2 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0108 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 345.32264 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30245756 Peri. 83.84880 +0.44248030 -0.89655142 a 2.1979936 Node 339.85142 +0.79788685 +0.40385288 e 0.8084401 Incl. 3.35659 +0.40937484 +0.18192970 P 3.26 H 18...

Orbital elements: 2007 ED125 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0088 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 343.55435 (2000.0) P Q n 0.36898273 Peri. 290.30840 -0.23902972 -0.97098394 a 1.9251535 Node 173.50741 +0.91356140 -0.22746853 e 0.5851973 Incl. 3.76003 +0.32904461 -0.07381234 P 2.67 H...

Title: A novel method for identifying exoplanetary rings Author: Jorge I. Zuluaga (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA/IF/UdeA), David Kipping (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Mario Sucerquia (IF/UdeA), Jaime A. Alvarado (IF/UdeA) The discovery of rings around extrasolar planets ("exorings"...

Galaxy-wide Echoes from the Past A new galaxy class has been identified using observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South telescope, and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). Nicknamed "green bean galaxies" because of their unusual appearance, thes...

The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government. The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole. The vault aims to safeguard the worl...

Rio de Janeiro celebrates 450th birthday with huge cake Read more

One of the world's largest tidal energy projects has been unveiled off Orkney in a bid to help make Scotland "the energy powerhouse of Europe". First Minister Alex Salmond opened the new testing facility at the European Marine Energy Centre (Emec). The site will house energy converters...

The 12 - 28 metre wide asteroid 2015 DO215 will make a close pass (3.1 LD, 0.0079 AU) travelling at 5.30 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd March 2015 @ 17:35 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 DN215 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0199 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 352.76589 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21422113 Peri. 80.64841 +0.10579760 -0.99433226 a 2.7662696 Node 3.33281 +0.82668262 +0.08208198 e 0.7509638 Incl. 10.40443 +0.55263253 +0.06757152 P 4.60 H 19...

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The first recorded European attempt on the summit of Aoraki was made by the Irishman Rev. William S. Green and the Swiss hotelier Emil Boss and the Swiss mountain guide Ulrich Kaufmann on 2 March 1882 via the Tasman and Linda Glaciers Read more