17 May, 2002 The first meteorite that may have come from Mercury has been identified. NWA 011 was found in the Moroccan Sahara in December 1999 and was immediately regarded as something unusual. Read more
Title: Discovery of a Large Population of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in the Bulge-less Galaxies NGC 337 and ESO 501-23 Authors: Garrett Somers, Smita Mathur, Paul Martini, Linda Watson, Catherine J. Grier, Laura Ferrarese We have used Chandra observations of eight bulge-less disk galaxies to...
Title: Multifrequency study of SNR J0533-7202, a new supernova remnant in the LMC Authors: L. M. Bozzetto, M. D. Filipovi, E.J. Crawford, M. Sasaki, P. Maggi, F. Haberl, D. Uroevi, J. L. Payne, A. Y. De Horta, M. Stupar, R. Gruendl, J. Dickel We present a detailed study of Australia Telescope Compact...
Benjamin Peirce (April 4, 1809 - October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/...
By discovering the first double star where a pulsating Cepheid variable and another star pass in front of one another, an international team of astronomers has solved a decades-old mystery. The rare alignment of the orbits of the two stars in the double star system has allowed a measurement of the Ce...
Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (April 4, 1892 in Heidelberg - May 6, 1979) was a German astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids (almost 400 of them), beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914, working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl astronomical observatory on the Königstuhl hill ab...
Orbital elements: 2009 KE3 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0313 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 352.40152 (2000.0) P Q n 0.22925524 Peri. 315.61507 +0.88490808 +0.46486042 a 2.6439701 Node 16.75148 -0.39439653 +0.78100783 e 0.7091219 Incl. 5.77979 -0.24776816 +0.41705102 P 4.30 H 18.2 G 0.15...
Orbital elements:
2013 GG Earth MOID = 0.2918 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
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P 3.42 H 22.4 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2013 GF Earth MOID = 0.0504 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 351.68222 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.55 H 21.3 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2013 GH Earth MOID = 0.1396 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 3.81878 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.97 H 23.4 G 0.1...
Orbital elements:
2013 GJ Earth MOID = 0.0395 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 352.14579 (2000.0) P Q
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a valley feature on Mars. Farah Vallis for a 76.37-km-wide Martian vallis located at -6.03°, 136.8°. The feature was named after the Farah river (Persian Farah Rud) in Afghanistan.
