* Astronomy

The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2015 BE92 will make a close pass (3.2 lunar distances, 0.0083 AU) travelling at 6.05 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th January 2015 @ 01:25 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...

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Title: Multi-wavelength observations of the black widow pulsar 2FGL J2339.6-0532 with OISTER and Suzaku Author: Yoichi Yatsu, Jun Kataoka, Yosuke Takahashi, Yutaro Tachibana, Nobuyuki Kawai, Shimpei Shibata, Sean Pike, Taketoshi Yoshii, Makoto Arimoto, Yoshihiko Saito, Takeshi NakamorI...

Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System Makes Unique Gravitational Laboratory Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth's...

An Am star or metallic-line star is a type of chemically peculiar star of spectral type A whose spectrum has strong and often variable absorption lines of metals such as zinc, strontium, zirconium, and barium, and deficiencies of others, such as calcium and scandium. These abnormalities are due to...

Title: ASASSN-14cc: Likely Helium Analog of RZ Leonis Minoris Author: Taichi Kato (Kyoto U), Franz-Josef Hambsch (GEOS, BAV, Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde), Berto Monard (Center for Backyard Astronomy Kleinkaroo) We identified that ASASSN-14cc is a very active dwarf nova spending approxima...

NASA has quietly released photos and video of a 31 July parachute test for its future Orion astronaut capsule that didn't go so well: the mockup capsule hit the ground pretty hard. Unsurprisingly, some have jumped on this, claiming that NASA is trying to cover up a failure. The full story is a bit more...

The 420 - 940 metre wide asteroid (357439) 2004 BL86 will make a close pass (3.1 lunar distances, 0.0080 AU) travelling at 15.67 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th January 2015 @ 16:20 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km...

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Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47544485/st-caprais-de-quinsac-meteorite/

Orbital elements: C/2012 U1 (PANSTARRS) T 2014 June 30.96963 TT MPC q 6.3168091 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 58.03596 +0.29866104 -0.84261464 Node 29.19495 +0.19532161 -0.40563301 e 1.0 Incl. 66.73189 +0.93415794 +0.35420676 From 14 observations 2012 Oct. 17-22. MPEC 2012 - U66 Comet C/2012 U1 (...

Comet P/2014 V1 (PANSTARRS) is at Perihelion (2.521 AU) on the 28th January 2015Orbital elements: P/2014 V1 (PANSTARRS) T 2014 Dec. 18.51043 TT MPCW q 2.5933159 (2000.0) P Q n 0.11617760 Peri. 168.00369 +0.90187180 +0.42134010 a 4.1596276 Node 165.87152 -0.42159670 +0.90659593 e 0.3765...

The 77 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2009 CD made a close pass (49.0 lunar distances, 0.1258 AU) travelling at 12.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th January 2015 @ 10:20 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...

Title: MoLUSC: A MOck Local Universe Survey Constructor Author: T. Sousbie, H. Courtois, G. Bryan, J. Devriendt This paper presents MoLUSC, a new method for generating mock galaxy catalogues from a large scale (~=1000³ Mpc³) dark matter simulation, that requires only modest CPU time and memory a...