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Crater Sulpicius Gallus
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This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the area close to the Sulpicius Gallus crater on the Moon.
AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006, from a distance of 1200 kilometres from the surface, with a ground r...
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Mare Humorum
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This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows Mare Humorum on the Moon.
AMIE obtained the top frame on 1 January 2006, from a distance of 1087 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 98 metres per pixel...
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Crater Gassendi
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ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft captured this image of crater Gassendi on the Moon. The spacecraft's advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) captured the photograph on January 13 at a distance of 1220 km (760 miles) from the surface. Gassendi is an impact crater on the near side of the Moon, but it's unusu...
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Asteroid (6406) 1992MJ
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Silvano Casulli, Colleverde di Guidonia, Rome, Italy, and R. Behrend, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland, have reported that they have taken photometric measurements over three recent nights of the 14th magnitude near earth asteroid (6406) 1992 MJ.
They observed deep eclipses (~0.7 mag) with...
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Polydeuces
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Johnpercy & Mairepercy
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John and Maire Percy, two distinguished Toronto researchers, have now been immortalised by having two asteroids named in honour of their marriage and their careers:
John Percy is an astronomer at the University of Toronto; and Maire is the director of the Neurogenetics Laboratory at Surrey Pla...
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Asteroids Spoelhof and Griffioen
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Asteroids discovered by students and professors at Calvin College now bear the names of two Calvin retirees: former Calvin president Dr. William Spoelhof and former Calvin dean and physics department chair Roger Griffioen.
Each asteroid is approximately the size of Calvin's entire Knollcre...
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Apollinaris Patera
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This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the caldera of Apollinaris Patera, an ancient, 5-kilometre-high volcano northwest of Gusev Crater.
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Themisto
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In September 1974, Jupiter was in opposition, near its closest point to Earth. Astronomer Charlie Kowal was on Mount Palomar, photographing the sky around Jupiter with a 48-inch telescope on three successive nights. Since the telescope had been set to track Jupiter in its slow slide across the bac...
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Crater Hopmann
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This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows one quarter of crater Hopmann - an impact structure...
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Nanedi Valles
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ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured this image with its High Resolution Stereo Camera that shows the Nanedi Valles valley system, a steep-sided feature that may have been formed in part by free-flowing water. The HRSC actually obtained the image on Oct. 3, 2004, during orbit 905 at a ground resolut...
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C/2005E2 (McNaught)
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At discovery on March 12, by R. H. McNaught), the comet was faint as 16.4 magnitude . It has steadily been brightening.
Now it is below 11th magnitude in the constellation Capricorn.
It is predicted to reach to 10 magnitude from January to March. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is observable only u...
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Occultation of C313.2
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Occultation of C313.2 by Charon
On July 11 2005, Scientists from MIT (Cambridge, Mass.) and Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) observed Pluto's moon, Charon, occult the star C313.2.
"We have been waiting many years for this opportunity. Watching Charon appr...
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Patroclus and Menoetius
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Astronomers using the Keck II Laser Telescope in Hawaii, have found that the two Trojan asteroids, 617 Patroclus and its companion, Menoetius, have a density of only 0.8 grams per cubic centimetre— much less dense than normal asteroids should be.
This leads the researchers to th...
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X-ray Aurora
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A team of scientists has scanned the northern polar region of Earth with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The results show that the aurora borealis, or "norther...
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