Orbital elements:
2014 OA2 Earth MOID = 0.1592 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 328.96935 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.48517032 Peri. 184.19713 +0.54468414 +0.83329783
a 1.6040081 Node 118.83152 -0.76626314 +0.54030803
e 0.2672639 Incl. 6.19391 -0.34082251 +0.11696993
P 2.03 H 21.5 G 0...
Orbital elements: 2010 PK9 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0160 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 119.14699 (2000.0) P Q n 1.74617588 Peri. 195.63931 -0.78538970 -0.59439763 a 0.6829843 Node 306.58929 +0.58849910 -0.63046560 e 0.6725522 Incl. 12.42684 +0.19191623 -0.49920395 P 0.56 H 21.9 G 0....
5000-year-old Cochno Stone carving may be revealed A set of mysterious, 5,000-year-old rock carvings could see the light of day again, after being buried 50 years ago to protect them from vandals. The Cochno Stone in West Dunbartonshire bears what is considered to be the finest example of Bronze Ag...
John Sarkissian of Parkes Observatory, Australia has reported that the recordings of the first TV pictures of Apollo eleven's landing on the moon have gone missing.
700 boxes of high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes were kept at the U.S. National Archives. The good news is that they still have...
PHARAO atomic clock agreement signed by ESA and CNES Today at the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that pav...
Orbital elements:
2014 OY1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0426 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 357.70298 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.23705240 Peri. 186.80685 -0.12671675 +0.91663128
a 2.5856703 Node 76.43990 -0.89071133 +0.06305796
e 0.6251232 Incl. 22.95378 -0.43655034 -0.39472876
P 4.16 H 19...
Title: CLASH: The enhanced lensing efficiency of the highly elongated merging cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 Authors: A. Zitrin, M. Meneghetti, K. Umetsu, T. Broadhurst, M. Bartelmann, R. Bouwens, L. Bradley, M. Carrasco, D. Coe, H. Ford, D. Kelson, A. M. Koekemoer, E. Medezinski, J. Moustakas, L. A...
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1 July 1872 - 2 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraf...
Mars 5 * Launch date/time: o Mars 5: July 25, 1973 at 18:55:48 UTC * On-orbit mass: o Dry: 2270 kg o Fully-fuelled: 3440 kg Mars 5 reached Mars on February 12, 1974 at 15:45 UT and was inserted into an elliptical 1755 by 32,555 km, 24 h 53 min orbit with an inclination of 35.3 degrees. Nearly synchronised wi...
Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph.D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot (born 25 July 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees) is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the preventi...
NGC 6682 is an open star cluster or star cloud located in the constellation Scutum. The star cloud was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Slough, England, on the 25th July 1827. Right Ascension 18h 39m 37.0s, Declinati...