Title: Triplets of Quasars at high redshift I: Photometric data Authors: M. Victoria Alonso, Georgina V. Coldwell, Ilona Sochting, Carlos Bornancini, Malcolm G. Smith, Diego Garcia Lambas, Armin Rest We have conducted an optical and infrared imaging in the neighbourhoods of 4 triplets of quasa...
Asteroid (52) Europa is at Opposition at 17:25 GMT, 27th March, 2011. Magnitude=10.5 Distance to Sun=2.975 AU Distance to Earth=1.986 AU 52 Europa is one of the larger asteroids in the asteroid belt, having a diameter of 300 km. It was discovered on February 4, 1858, by Hermann Goldschmidt fr...
METEOR MISSES AUTOIST Then He Stops and Digs Bit of Hot Metal From Earth. South Bethlehem, Pa., May 12. -- George McDevitt, a local chauffer, narrowly escaped being hit by a meteorite while out in his machine near Layton's Crossing, South Bethlehem. He was speeding along and was startled to hear a his...
Orbital elements:
2017 JA2 Earth MOID = 0.0007 AU
Epoch 2017 Feb. 16.0 TT = JDT 2457800.5 MPC
M 251.76235 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.75506104 Peri. 253.22687 +0.55332534 +0.82282975
a 1.1943951 Node 51.08681 -0.68669684 +0.53863898
e 0.2879599 Incl. 9.58386 -0.47146423 +0.18116085
P 1.31 H 24.7 G 0...
It's easy: mix together some materials like sand, limestone and soda. Heat them above 2000o F. Then cool the incandescent liquid carefully so that crystals cannot form.
That's how you make glass.
Craftsmen on Earth have followed this basic recipe for millennia. It works. "Now we know i...
A Cosmic Perspective on 21st Century Challenges The Astronomer Royal last night told a Liverpool audience that this century, above all the billions of years of the Earths existence, is the most significant. Professor Martin Rees visited the city yesterday to deliver one of Liverpool John Moores U...
Title: Loki, Io: New groundbased observations and a model describing the change from periodic overturn
Authors: Julie A. Rathbun, John R. Spencer
Loki Patera is the most powerful volcano in the solar system.
Researchers have obtained measurements of Loki's 3.5...
After more than a decade of work, a team led by physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has completed a major detector subsystem for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). Completion of the tracking detector is a significant milestone for the telescope project, sche...
Oldest buckthorn fossilised flowers found in Argentina Around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, a giant asteroid crashed into the present-day Gulf of Mexico, leading to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. How plants were affected is less understood, but fossil rec...
NASA Celebrates Mars New Year in Mars, Pennsylvania NASA helped the town of Mars, Pennsylvania ring in the Martian New Year, May 5-6. Citizens of the town, just north of Pittsburgh, invited the agency to help celebrate Mars New Year, whic...
If you've ever wondered where the iron in your blood comes from, it was forged in the heart of a massive star. But the gold and silver in your jewellery, plus mercury, lead and other heavy metals we find useful, were created when that star exploded in a supernova. When a supernova explodes, it ejects hug...
The tiger may be more ancient and distinct than we thought. Tigers are less closely related to lions, leopards and jaguars than these other big cats are to each other, according to a new comprehensive study. The genetic analysis also reveals the tiger began evolving 3.2 million years ago, and its clo...
Roberto Concina (3 November 1969 - 9 May 2017), better known by his stage name Robert Miles, was an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. Read more
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