Pluto's Gate Uncovered in Turkey A "gate to hell" has emerged from ruins in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists have announced. Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin -- the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology...
IAA LECTURE: Lecture by Prof Alan Fitzsimmons of the Astrophysics Department in QUB, on Wednesday 3 April. Title "Data Mining The Asteroid Belt." Admission is free, including light refreshments, and all are welcome. This lecture will as usual be in the Bell Lecture theatre, Physics bu...
Title: Nonlinear asteroseismology of RR Lyrae Authors: L. Molnár, Z. Kolláth, R. Szabó, K. Kolenberg, S. Bryson, F. Mullally, S. E. Thompson The observations of the Kepler space telescope revealed that fundamental-mode RR Lyrae stars may show various radial overtones. The presence of multiple...
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Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
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Researchers at The University of Manchester have used graphene to measure an important and mysterious fundamental constant - and glimpse the foundations of the universe. The researchers from The School of Physics and Astronomy, led by Professor Andre Geim, have found that the worlds thinnest ma...
Peter Hawkins, a British actor who voiced the sinister Daleks on "Dr. Who," has died at the age of 82.
Hawkins began his acting career on stage after World War II service in the Navy. He helped create the distinctive sound of the Daleks, the sinister robotic enemies of Dr. Who, and of another Dr. Who ad...
University of Arizona and Japanese scientists are convinced that evidence at last settles decades-long arguments about what objects bombarded the early inner solar system in a cataclysm 3.9 billion years ago.
Ancient main belt asteroids identical in size to present-day asteroids in the Ma...
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Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 28.56203 (2000.0) P Q
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Hubble Sees J 900 Masquerading as a Double Star The object in this image is Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula - glowing shells of ionised gas pushed out by a dying star. Discovered in the early 1900s by astronomer Robert Jonckheere, the dusty nebula is small but fairly bright, with a relativel...
Clément Ader (2 April 1841 - 5 March 1925) was a French inventor and engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne, and is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. Read more
Title: PTF11kx: A Type-Ia Supernova with a Symbiotic Nova Progenitor Authors: B. Dilday, D. A. Howell, S. B. Cenko, J. M. Silverman, P. E. Nugent, M. Sullivan, S. Ben-Ami, L. Bildsten, M. Bolte, M. Endl, A. V. Filippenko, O. Gnat, A. Horesh, E. Hsiao, M. M. Kasliwal, D. Kirkman, K. Maguire, G. W. Marcy...
Orbital elements: 2011 EM11 Earth MOID = 0.0667 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 340.73709 (2000.0) P Q n 0.48659905 Peri. 14.06344 -0.99906162 -0.01011769 a 1.6008669 Node 165.16305 -0.00057607 -0.96914192 e 0.3409135 Incl. 9.46586 +0.04330764 -0.24629569 P 2.03 H 24.5 G 0.15 U 8 MP...
Wildlife officials yet to estimate impact of Valley launch site As Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, prepares for its launch of a cargo ship at Cape Canaveral in Florida later this month, local wildlife experts here are evaluating the companys proposal to build a launch site in Brownsvi...
'Petaflop' supercomputer is decommissioned A US supercomputer called Roadrunner has been switched off by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The machine was the first to operate at "petaflop pace" - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second - when it laun...
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