TechEdSat is a 1U CubeSat built by San Jose State University students in partnership with Ames Research Center and ÅAC Microtec. Its mission is to evaluate Space Plug-and-play Avionics (SPA) designed in Sweden by ÅAC Microtec, and to perform a communications experiment utilizing the Iridium and...
Cosmos 1271 was a Soviet ELINT Electronic and Signals Intelligence satellite launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. It replaced Cosmos 1077. From 1965 to 1967 two dedicated ELINT systems were tested: the Tselina and the Navy's US. Both reached service, since the Ministry of Defense could not for...
Australopithecus sediba May Have Paved the Way for Homo Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands, and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin that existed around the same time early Homo species first began to appear on Earth. The new Au. sediba findings,...
Orbital elements:
2013 GU66 Earth MOID = 0.0561 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 293.22546 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.84489826 Peri. 269.54641 +0.38424267 +0.91731845
a 1.1081531 Node 23.90087 -0.71101157 +0.36610554
e 0.1742394 Incl. 14.92191 -0.58891435 +0.15650428
P 1.17 H 24.8...
Orbital elements:
2013 GT66 Earth MOID = 0.0121 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 254.03792 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.25711018 Peri. 321.81120 +0.94994133 +0.29861199
a 0.8502641 Node 21.36932 -0.18639642 +0.77769546
e 0.3231965 Incl. 14.60548 -0.25073462 +0.55319133
P 0.78 H 25.2...
Orbital elements: 2010 KR10 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0016 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 1.07505 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40268411 Peri. 234.11921 +0.84081570 +0.54106163 a 1.8161835 Node 93.11923 -0.49108246 +0.77544974 e 0.5043025 Incl. 0.96240 -0.22774324 +0.32546893 P 2.45 H 19.4 G 0.15 U...
The 200 - 450 metre wide asteroid 2008 WM64 will make a close pass (17.4 Lunar Distances, 0.0448 AU), travelling at 17.60 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd June, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distanc...
Asteroid 10295 Hippolyta (1988 GB) is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on April 12, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory. Read more
Title: Multiple outflows in the planetary nebula NGC 6058 Authors: P. F. Guillén, R. Vázquez, L. F. Miranda, S. Zavala, M. E. Contreras, S. Ayala, A. Ortiz-Ambriz We present narrow-band [O III]lambda5007 and H-alpha images, as well as long-slit high-resolution echelle spectra of the planetary n...
Title: On the nature of supernovae Ib and Ic Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Chengdong Li, Stan Woosley Using non-LTE time-dependent radiative-transfer calculations, we study the impact of mixing and non-thermal processes associated with radioactive decay on SN IIb/Ib/Ic light curves...
Title: RX J1301.9+2747: A Highly Variable Seyfert Galaxy with Extremely Soft X-ray Emission Authors: Luming Sun (USTC), Xinwen Shu (USTC), Tinggui Wang (USTC) In this paper we present a temporal and spectral analysis of X-ray data from the XMM and Chandra observations of the ultrasoft and variab...
Title: Photometric variability in a warm, strongly magnetic DQ white dwarf, SDSS J103655.39+652252.2 Authors: Kurtis A. Williams, D. E. Winget, M. H. Montgomery, Patrick Dufour, S. O. Kepler, J. J. Hermes, Ross E. Falcon, K. I. Winget, Michael Bolte, K. H. R. Rubin We present the discovery of phot...
Orbital elements:
2012 XS93 Earth MOID = 0.1029 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 238.38934 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.69248691 Peri. 326.91708 -0.19794338 +0.88227215
a 1.2653044 Node 288.40532 -0.77288242 -0.40847315
e 0.8062141 Incl. 26.75172 -0.60288571 +0.23397766
P 1.42 H 19...
