Orbital elements:
2013 FX13 Earth MOID = 0.1467 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 35.06297 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.45794611 Peri. 359.58742 +0.43044542 -0.89049095
a 1.6669649 Node 64.91122 +0.82860020 +0.32505249
e 0.7785211 Incl. 9.37033 +0.35796431 +0.31838145
P 2.15 H 21.1 G 0...
Title: A candidate z ~ 8 galaxy lensed by a foreground z ~ 1.7 group Authors: R. L. Barone-Nugent, J. S. B. Wyithe, M. Trenti, T. Treu, P. Oesch, L. Bradley, K. Schmidt We report the discovery of a candidate z~8 galaxy lensed by a foreground z~1.7 group, found in the pure-parallel HST images taken as part...
Scientists have shown it is possible to predict the colour of animals that are extinct.
Prof. Andrew Parker, scientist at the Natural History Museum, UK, discovered that iridescent colours in animals result from tiny structures that show up under the microscope and these can be seen even in fo...
Newly Named Mercury Craters Honour Hawaiian Guitarist, Beloved Young Adult Author The International Astronomical Union (IAU) - the arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919 - recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to assign names to nine...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved changes to the nomenclature on Mercury. Valles features will be named after abandoned cities, towns or settlements of antiquity.Catenae features (Crater chains) will be named after radio telescope facilities. Arecibo Catena has...
The 320 - 710 metre wide asteroid 2006 KY86 will make a close pass (75.6 lunar distances, 0.1941 AU), travelling at 12.96 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th March, 2013 @ 03:42 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Title: Multiwavelength observations of V479 Andromedae: a close compact binary with an identity crisis Authors: Diego Gonzalez-Buitrago (1), Gagik Tovmassian (1), Sergey Zharikov (1), Lev Yungelson (2), Takamitsu Miyaji (1), Juan Echevarria (1), Andres Aviles (1), Gennady Valyavin (3) ((1...
Orbital elements:
2013 FY13 Earth MOID = 0.0913 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 355.45468 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.69518715 Peri. 13.75963 -0.84125241 +0.53266495
a 1.2620258 Node 199.29945 -0.51874151 -0.84348449
e 0.1361316 Incl. 16.25874 -0.15232079 -0.06929622
P 1.42 H 20.5...
Title: The kinematics of NGC1333-IRAS2A - a true Class protostar Authors: C. Brinch, J. K. J\orgensen, M. R. Hogerheijde Low-mass star formation is described by gravitational collapse of dense cores of gas and dust. At some point during the collapse, a disk is formed around the protostar and the d...
Twenty years ago this week, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope was launched into space aboard NASA's space shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., as part of the 12-day Astro-1 astronomy mission. The telescope was conceived, designed and built by Johns Hopkins Uni...
NASA Delays Next SpaceX Rocket Launch WMFE- NASA managers say the next launch of a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station will be postponed from January until March. The commercial space company, California-based SpaceX, has a $1.6 billion dollar contract with NASA to launch 12 flight...
Title: Type Iax Supernovae: A New Class of Stellar Explosion Authors: Ryan J. Foley, P. J. Challis, R. Chornock, M. Ganeshalingam, W. Li, G. H. Marion, N. I. Morrell, G. Pignata, M. D. Stritzinger, J. M. Silverman, X. Wang, J. P. Anderson, A. V. Filippenko, W. L. Freedman, M. Hamuy, S. W. Jha, R. P. Kirs...
Jodrell Bank has been named as the winner of the BBC's online competition to find the UK's greatest 'Unsung Landmark'. The contest asked visitors to the BBC website to choose their favourite from eight landmarks nominated by the public and selected from an earlier regional round of voting.
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