Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Read more
The first spy satellite, Discoverer 4, was launched on June 25, 1959. It failed to achieve orbit. The first Corona launch containing a camera was carried out in June 1959 with the cover name Discoverer 4. This was a 750 kilogram satellite launched by a Thor-Agena rocket. [url=http://en.wikipedia....
Title: Near Infrared Observations of GQ Lup b Using the Gemini Integral Field Spectrograph NIFS Authors: Jean-Francois Lavigne, Rene Doyon, David Lafreniere, Christian Marois, Travis Barman We present new JHK spectroscopy (R ~ 5000) of GQ Lup b, acquired with the near-infrared integral field s...
Rock Or Meteorite? Strange Object Crashes Through Roof Of Local Business There is a mystery surrounding a strange-looking rock that came crashing through the ceiling of a Mercer County business. It happened sometime late Thursday night or early Friday morning. Employees of the business discove...
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho people against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Rea...
Gardeners dig up meteorite in Williams Curious things tend to turn up in Williams. First, it was a prehistoric mastodon jaw. Now, it's an even older specimen - a meteorite, sent spiralling to earth from the reaches of space. Ploughing up their garden in October, Doug and Ruth May happened upon a rock t...
I give examples to show that the code used in the Voynich Manuscript is probably a series of Italian word anagrams written in a fancy embellished script. This code, that has been confusing scholars for nearly a century, is therefore not as complicated as it first appears. All attempts over the past ce...
Orbital elements:
2013 MR6 Earth MOID = 0.2847 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 325.30067 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21640184 Peri. 216.20183 +0.76637052 +0.34554152
a 2.7476542 Node 114.47704 -0.35357168 +0.93072249
e 0.5524350 Incl. 36.51459 -0.53634251 -0.11981947
P 4.55 H 18.5...
Backyard Calcium K filters range from a diagonal inserted into a telescope, rear mounted filter or a complete telescope system. All three designs do the same thing, block unwanted light and pass the Calcium K emission line. Read more...
Sunspots 11777, 11775, 11774, 11773, 11776, 11772 and 11770 captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam + DIY focal reducer and solar filter. Labelled image processed with Avistack2.
NOAA-17 is a weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. It was launched on 24 June 2002, in a sun-synchronous orbit, 824 km above the Earth, orbiting every 101 minutes. Read more
Ekspress A3, also designated Ekspress 3A, is a Russian communications satellite which is operated by Kosmicheskiya Svyaz and Eutelsat. It was constructed by NPO Prikladnoi Mekhaniki and Alcatel Space and is based on the MSS-2500-GSO satellite bus. The satellite was launched at Baikonur Cosmod...
Kosmos 745, also known as DS-P1-Yu No.76, was a Soviet satellite which was launched at 12:05 UTC, 24 June 1975. It was a 400-kilogram spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and was used as a radar calibration target for anti-ballistic missile tests. [url=http://en.wikipedia....
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