The 420 metre wide asteroid 4034 Vishnu (1986 PA) will make a close pass (59.5 lunar distances, 0.1528 AU), travelling at 12.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st April, 2013 @ 23:07 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (...
Spanish man Faustino Asensio Lopez discovers 100kg rock used as ham press is meteorite For over 30 years, the 100-kilogram rock on farmer Faustino Asensio Lopez's patio served its purpose as a ham press. Due to its almighty weight, the Spanish farmer and his family used the rock as a weight in the ham-...
Distant super-luminous supernovae found Two 'super-luminous' supernovae - stellar explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than other supernova types - have been detected in the distant Universe. The discovery, led by Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicist Dr Jeffrey Cooke, and repo...
A small prototype array in Germany has detected several radio flashes from cosmic rays that smack into the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
A larger array, with more of these low-cost radio antennas, could help astrophysicists decipher the mystery behind the highest energy cosmic rays.
Cosmic ray...
Title: XMM-Newton observation of the persistent Be/NS X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 Authors: N. La Palombara (1), L. Sidoli (1), P. Esposito (2), A. Tiengo (1,3), S. Mereghetti (1) ((1) INAF/IASF Milano, Italy, (2) INAF/OA Cagliari, Italy, (3) IUSS Pavia, Italy) Many X-ray accreting puls...
DI Herculis is an 8th-magnitude eclipsing binary about 2,000 light years from earth. These two young blue stars are very close -- only one fifth the distance from earth to our sun. They orbit about a common center of gravity every 10.55 days. The puzzle is that, as the two stars swing around one another...
Carlo Rubbia OMRI (born on 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. Read more
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga or Shin'ichir Tomonaga (March 31, 1906 - July 8, 1979) was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. [url=http://...
Otto Julius Klotz OLS, DLS, DTS (March 31, 1852 - December 28, 1923) was a Canadian astronomer and Dominion Surveyor. In 1885, Klotz was the first person to be officially designated as astronomer in the Dominion of Canada. He had been assiged chief of astronomical observations to be conducted in Bri...
Mercury: at magnitude -1.1, starts the month in the constellation of Pisces. Mercury is at inferior Conjunction on the 4th March. Mercury is at greatest elongation on the 31st March. (On March 21st, RA=22h30m39s Dec= -9°00.5' (J2000) Distance=0.738AU Phase k=31% Diameter=9.1") V...
The Matrix is a 1999 American science fiction action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving, and was first released in the United States on March 31, 1999. Read more
Orbital elements:
2011 KR12 Earth MOID = 0.1231 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 357.83762 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.96918746 Peri. 0.65308 +0.92801828 -0.36942708
a 1.0112632 Node 21.22455 +0.34118969 +0.79109417
e 0.3859169 Incl. 7.62201 +0.14957162 +0.48753835
P 1.02 H 21.3 G 0....
Orbital elements:
2011 SD173 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0111 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 59.43686 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.47492697 Peri. 56.14829 -0.17536804 +0.98397369
a 1.6269898 Node 203.81408 -0.92761564 -0.17612916
e 0.5005892 Incl. 4.58511 -0.32981097 -0.02782616
P 2.08 H 1...
Orbital elements:
2012 UL171 Earth MOID = 0.0137 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 270.78965 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.90107095 Peri. 92.02246 -0.41115569 -0.91132353
a 1.0616061 Node 22.29150 +0.81281096 -0.37693813
e 0.1429577 Incl. 3.17158 +0.41266130 -0.16555081
P 1.09 H 27.0...
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