* Astronomy

Title: Plutino Detection Biases, Including the Kozai Resonance Authors: S. M. Lawler, B. Gladman Because of their proximity within the transneptunian region, the plutinos (objects in the 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Neptune) are numerous in flux-limited catalogues, and well-studied theo...

Orbital elements: 2013 JN7 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0400 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 31.67992 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40490536 Peri. 168.36620 -0.25222019 -0.96697772 a 1.8095352 Node 296.23381 +0.88451531 -0.21504461 e 0.6686019 Incl. 2.33804 +0.39245081 -0.13678416 P 2.43 H 20...

E. O. Ofek, D. A. Howell, M. M. Kasliwal, A. Gal-Yam, J. S. Bloom, P. Nugent, M. Sullivan, R. Quimby, S. B. Cenko, D. Poznanski, and S. R. Kulkarni, on behalf of the "Palomar Transient Factory" collaboration, report their discovery of a young, broad-line type-Ic supernova (magnitude R = 1...

Large meteor dances across Wyoming sky A large meteor exploded in the sky above southern Wyoming on Sunday night and was observed from as far as 400 miles away. Jordan Dowers of Olympia, Wash., was driving along Interstate 80 near Laramie with his father when they spotted it about 10:45 p.m. [url=htt...

Historic warship HMS Caroline gets £845,600 boost A project to transform the last surviving WW1 warship into a floating museum in Belfast has been boosted by a £845,600 grant. The Heritage Lottery Fund has confirmed its initial support for the transformation of HMS Caroline. [url=http://www.bb...

Kielder observatory is reporting a sighting of a large mag -6 to -7 fireball at 9.55 UTC, travelling east to west.

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (9 May 1746 - 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry (the mathematical basis of technical drawing), and the father of differential geometry. Read more

Former Spaceport America chief appointed to lead vision and planning for Virgin Galactic space flights from Abu Dhabi. Virgin Galactic LLC ("Virgin Galactic"), part of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, and Aabar Investments PJS ("Aabar") today announced that they ha...

Title: The Puerto Lápice eucrite Authors: Llorca, J.; Casanova, I.; Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M.; Madiedo, J.; Roszjar, J.; Bischoff, A.; Ott, U.; Franchi, I. A.; Greenwood, R. C. and Laubenstein, M. Puerto Lápice is a new eucrite fall (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 10 May 2007). In this paper, we report i...

Orbital elements: 2013 JO7 Earth MOID = 0.0089 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 333.59045 (2000.0) P Q n 0.82419099 Peri. 19.30149 -0.50523941 +0.85520734 a 1.1266373 Node 220.57806 -0.81329035 -0.51664200 e 0.1023371 Incl. 10.23283 -0.28860346 -0.04124863 P 1.20 H 26.0 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 JM7 Earth MOID = 0.0520 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 179.32792 (2000.0) P Q n 0.73839107 Peri. 156.08043 +0.78364056 -0.61609480 a 1.2123046 Node 242.19006 +0.55445676 +0.75144301 e 0.2857951 Incl. 5.16267 +0.28015206 +0.23613682 P 1.33 H 20.6 G...

Boris Mavashev (born 9 May 1939 in Tashkent) is a seismologist, doctor of geology and ecology, specialising in the geochemical and meteorological precursors of earthquakes. Read more

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The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashed onto the Moon on the 12th May, 1965. The landing coordinates were 31° south latitude and 8° west longitude. Read more

It has long been known that it is possible to confine electrons or atoms in atomic structures in the same way as sheep can be shut in a pen. Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle have now discovered a strange thing: if the atomic fences have the right shape and the sub...