NGC 4666 (also MCG 0-33-8, UGC 792 and PGC 42975) is a magnitude +10.8 spiral galaxy located 47.8 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, Berkshir...
Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. Read more Crusade Episode 1 War Zone [spoiler]...
Brian H. Mason, 92, a Smithsonian scientist who was internationally known for his study of meteorites and moon rocks and who was the first to discover that a rock found in Antarctica came from the moon, died of renal failure Dec. 3 at his home in Chevy Chase. [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-...
Title: SDSS J114657.79+403708.6: the third most distant blazar at z=5.0 Author: G. Ghisellini (1), T. Sbarrato (1,2,3), G. Tagliaferri (1), L. Foschini (1), F. Tavecchio (1), G. Ghirlanda (1), V. Braito (1), N. Gehrels (4) ((1) INAF-Osservatorio di Brera, (2) Univ. dell'Insubria, (3) ESO Garch...
Orbital elements:
2012 KL45 Earth MOID = 0.0867 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 313.22040 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.47098465 Peri. 203.38206 +0.51735358 +0.74928916
a 1.6360562 Node 100.22445 -0.70379659 +0.64736184
e 0.3380849 Incl. 24.83994 -0.48684252 -0.13960085
P 2.09 H 18....
The Apollo of Gaza: One fisherman's amazing catch A statue thought to be an ancient bronze of Apollo, Greek God of poetry and love, has dropped off the radar after being found in the sea off Gaza last summer and surfacing briefly on eBay. It is 2,500 years old and priceless. Read more
Limits on Binarity of Exoplanet Host Stars Though there are now many hundreds of confirmed exoplanets known, the binarity of exoplanet host stars is not well understood. This is particularly true of host stars which harbor a giant planet in a highly eccentric orbit since these are more likely to hav...
Conmoción en la provincia: estalló un meteorito y sacudió varias localidades En al menos siete ciudades y pueblos del centro y oeste de Santa Fe sintieron este martes un fuerte temblor. "Se escuchó una explosión y se movieron los vidrios", señalaron en Cañada de Gómez. Desde el Observat...
The Shocking Behaviour of a Speedy Star Roguish runaway stars can have a big impact on their surroundings as they plunge through the Milky Way galaxy. Their high-speed encounters shock the galaxy, creating arcs, as seen in this newly released image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this case...
The 38 - 84 metre wide asteroid 2014 DG will make a close pass (45.9 lunar distances, 0.1179 AU), travelling at 13.15 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st February 2014 @ 02:44 UT ±01:17. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
The 320 - 710 metre wide asteroid 1999 SK10 will make a close pass (71.5 lunar distances, 0.1838 AU), travelling at 11.48 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st February 2014 @ 08:11 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (...
February 21, 1969 - Vehicle serial number 3L - Zond L1S-1 (Soyuz 7K-L1S (Zond-M) modification of Soyuz 7K-L1 "Zond" spacecraft) for Moon flyby - Due to unexpected high-frequency oscillations in the gas generator, one of the pipes broke apart and a fire started. This fire reached the eng...
Orbital elements:
2012 DY43 Earth MOID = 0.0370 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 39.87353 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.52163728 Peri. 251.53812 +0.54634118 -0.83620601
a 1.5283529 Node 165.05685 +0.82115773 +0.52356705
e 0.6313311 Incl. 10.64961 +0.16495846 +0.16320863
P 1.89 H 24.0...