NGC 7061 (also ESO 236-13 and PGC 66785) is a magnitude +13.3 elliptical galaxy located 414 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 7548 (also IRAS 23127+2459, MCG 4-54-36, UGC 12455 and PGC 70826) is a magnitude +13.3 face-on spiral galaxy located 367 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 ref...
CERN, the European nuclear research lab, has passed a milestone in building its worldwide data grid, sustaining a continuous data flow of an average of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) for 10 days between eight facilities distributed through Europe and the US.
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Title: SO(10) SUSY GUTs, the gravitino problem, non-thermal leptogenesis and axino dark matter Authors: Howard Baer, Heaya Summy Simple SUSY GUT models based on the gauge group SO(10) require t-b-\tau Yukawa coupling unification, in addition to gauge coupling and matter unification. The Yuka...
Title: WASP-94 A and B planets: hot-Jupiter cousins in a twin-star system Author: M. Neveu-VanMalle, D. Queloz, D. R. Anderson, C. Charbonnel, A. Collier Cameron, L. Delrez, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, E. Jehin, M. Lendl, P. F. L. Maxted, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, D. Segransan, B. Smalley, A. M. S. Smith, J. S...
Mercury: at magnitude -0.2, starts the month in the constellation of Virgo. Mercury is at Aphelion on the 11th. The planet is near (separated ~33') to Spica on the 20th. Mercury is at its Greatest Elongation (26.4° E) on the 21st and at Dichotomy (Half phase) on the 26th. (On August 31st, RA=11h51m24...
A volcano in central Japan erupted in spectacular fashion on Saturday, catching mountain climbers by surprise and stranding at least 40 injured people in areas that rescue workers have been unable to reach. One woman was reported dead and another seven people were missing. Read more
The 15 - 33 metre wide asteroid 2014 SH224 will make a close pass (2.3 lunar distances, 0.0058 AU), travelling at 10.87 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th September 2014 @ 16:45 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
Orbital elements:
2014 SZ144 Earth MOID = 0.0008 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC
M 9.45808 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.27408098 Peri. 230.59947 +0.54287983 -0.83980125
a 2.3472001 Node 186.52420 +0.78072293 +0.50639751
e 0.6310666 Incl. 1.97627 +0.30944014 +0.19569217
P 3.60 H 25.3 G 0...
The 14 - 31 metre wide asteroid 2014 SS261 made a close pass (6.4 lunar distances, 0.0163 AU), travelling at 6.15 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th September 2014 @ 09:54 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
The 57 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2014 SV261 made a close pass (37.4 lunar distances, 0.0960 AU), travelling at 14.81 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th September 2014 @ 16:56 UT ±00:04. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Asteroid (258) Tyche is at Opposition in the constellation Pegasus on the 29th September 2014 Magnitude: 10.6 Distance to Earth; 1.087 AU Distance to Sun: 2.081 AU EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag
2014 09 28 00 06 43.3 +12 12 20 1.0874 2.0805 169.3 5.1 10.7
2014 09 29 00 06 06...
NGC 8 (also Holm 3B and PGC 648) is a magnitude +15.2 and +16.5 (K5 and F8) double star located 142 ±31 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The double star was discovered by Russian-German astronomer Otto Wilhelm von Struve using a 38.1 cm (15 inch) refractor at the Pulkovo Observa...