Title: The Exoplanet Orbit Database II: Updates to exoplanets.org Author: Eunkyu Han, Sharon X. Wang, Jason T. Wright, Y. Katherina Feng, Ming Zhao, Jacob I. Brown, Colin Han**** The Exoplanet Orbit Database (EOD) compiles orbital, transit, host star, and other parameters of robustly detected...
Title: Discovery of a deep, low mass ratio overcontact binary GSC 03517-00663 Author: D.-F. Guo, K. Li, S.-M. Hu, Y.-G. Jiang, D.-Y. Gao, X. Chen When observing the blazars, we identified a new eclipsing binary GSC 03517-00663. The light curves of GSC 03517-00663 are typical EW-type light curves....
Title: Kepler-424 b: A "Lonely" Hot Jupiter That Found A Companion Author: Michael Endl, Douglas A. Caldwell, Thomas Barclay, Daniel Huber, Howard Isaacson, Lars A. Buchhave, Erik Brugamyer, Paul Robertson, William D. Cochran, Phillip J. MacQueen, Mathieu Havel, Phillip Lucas, St...
Orbital elements:
2014 NE52 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0343 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 320.75341 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.26492938 Peri. 337.14890 +0.84551364 -0.53106708
a 2.4009473 Node 55.04576 +0.49974996 +0.75050470
e 0.6577408 Incl. 3.87910 +0.18803371 +0.39333250
P 3.72 H 18...
Orbital elements:
2012 UW136 Earth MOID = 0.1407 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 118.47011 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.95881223 Peri. 25.17039 -0.44388791 +0.88220016
a 1.0185453 Node 219.01790 -0.85857302 -0.46891762
e 0.1712358 Incl. 14.45197 -0.25654608 +0.04288519
P 1.03 H 22...
NASA-Funded Rocket Has Six Minutes to Study Solar Heating On Sept. 30, 2014, a sounding rocket will fly up into the sky past Earth's atmosphere that obscures certain wavelengths of light from the sun -- for a 15-minute journey to study what heats up the sun's atmosphere. This is the fourth flight for t...
NGC 1 (also IRAS 00047+2725, MCG 4-1-25, UGC 57 and PGC 564) is a magnitude +13.65 spiral galaxy located 211 ±14 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the C...
NGC 648 (also IC 146, ESO 543-6, MCG -3-5-11 and PGC 6083) is a magnitude +14.4 lenticular galaxy located 487 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark & Sons re...
NGC 676 (also MCG 1-5-34, UGC 1270 and PGC 6656) is a magnitude +11.9 lenticular galaxy located 69 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Sl...
NGC 7002 (also ESO 235-43 and PGC 66009) is a magnitude +12.4 elliptical galaxy located 338 million light-years away in the constellation Indus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 Inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhausen in Wynberg, Cape Town on th...
NGC 7038 (also ESO 286-79, IRAS 21117-4725 and PGC 66414) is a magnitude +11.6 barred spiral galaxy located 227 million light-years away in the constellation Indus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 Inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhausen in Wyn...
