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Asteroid 2010 BK2
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Orbital elements: 2010 BK2 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0329 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 58.32213 (2000.0) P Q n 1.14873843 Peri. 72.41187 +0.98137459 +0.16106013 a 0.9029325 Node 278.22225 -0.19012697 +0.89231262 e 0.4483349 Incl. 6.07294 +0.02748907 +0.42170823 P 0.86 H 22.0 G 0.15 U 8...
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On Christmas Day, 1758, a German amateur astronomer and farmer named Johann Georg Palitzsch did something that would have made a great Christmas gift for English astronomer Edmond Halley. Johann "recovered" Halley's Comet, meaning he was the first to observe this previously observe...
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Comet C/2008 X1 (Hill)
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Orbital elements: C/2008 X1 (Hill) T 2009 May 20.504 TT MPC q 1.61769 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 44.947 -0.836222 -0.392778 Node 108.322 +0.316682 -0.915605 e 1.0 Incl. 23.774 +0.447711 -0.085978 From 24 observations 2008 Dec. 4-5. MPEC 2008 -X42
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Comet P/2008 R5 (LINEAR-NEAT)
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Comet P/2001 TU80 = Comet 2008 R5 (LINEAR-NEAT) The comet P/2001 TU80 was discovered by the NEAT program on November 16, 2001. The comet was recovered on the 8th September, 2008 by J.V. Scotti (Spacewatch II). The comet had an encounter (0.0815 AU) with the planet Jupiter in April 1985 which changed t...
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Asteroid (162385) 2000 BM19
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The 600 - 1300 metre wide asteroid 2000 BM19 will make a close pass (45.6 Lunar Distances, 0.1172 AU), travelling at 6.8km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th February 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
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Asteroid (141052) 2001 XR1
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The 930 m - 2.1 km metre wide asteroid (141052) 2001 XR1 will make a close pass (68.8 Lunar Distances, 0.1769 AU) to the Earth-Moon system on 1st February 2009. See more Asteroid (141052) 2001 XR1 was discovered on the 9th Decmber 2001, by LINEAR (Socorro observatory). Orbital elements: 2001 XR1 Epoc...
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Comet C/2010 J5 (MCNAUGHT)
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Orbital elements: C/2010 J5 (McNaught) T 2011 June 20.010 TT MPC q 1.35641 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 295.683 +0.963096 +0.008985 Node 64.818 +0.130487 +0.858554 e 1.0 Incl. 17.293 -0.235415 +0.512644 From 19 observations 2010 May 12-14. [url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/mpec/K10/K10J96.ht...
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Asteroid 2010 BB
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Orbital elements: 2010 BB PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0111 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 116.72561 (2000.0) P Q n 1.31505641 Peri. 29.47746 +0.62906153 +0.75875029 a 0.8250998 Node 280.03574 -0.74259017 +0.52223605 e 0.2691362 Incl. 9.88562 -0.22987264 +0.38931671 P 0.75 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 9...
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Comet 116P/Wild 4
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Comet 116P/Wild 4 (magnitude 14.8) will pass close to the Globular Cluster NGC 6553 in the constellation Sagittarius, at 21:00 UT, 31st January, 2010. The comet will only be 0.09° deg from the center of NGC 6553 (magnitude 8.3). Ephemeris pre>Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase mag 2010 0...
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Asteroid 2009 DL46
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The 120 - 280 metre wide asteroid 2009 DL46 made a close pass (50.6 LD, 19,400,000 kms), travelling at 7.55km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th April 2009. The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
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Asteroid (85990) 1999 JV6
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The 400 metre wide asteroid 1999 JV6 will make a close pass (0.02628 AU), to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th September, 2010. The asteroid was discovered by LINEAR (Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico) on the 13th May, 1999. The asteroid is an Earth coorbital object, or quasi-satellite. Orbital el...
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Asteroid 747 Winchester
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Occultation of an 11.5 magnitude star, TYC 0368-01463-1, by a 13.5 magnitide asteroid 747 Winchester. 27th May, 2008. Occultation by asteroid 747 Winchester, 28 May 2008 Click to Play | View Details
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Asteroid 2009 BE58
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Orbital elements: 2009 BE58 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0041 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 220.06193 (2000.0) P Q n 1.08061784 Peri. 121.01876 +0.00718865 +0.99983582 a 0.9404910 Node 149.37979 -0.92823115 +0.01285870 e 0.5646440 Incl. 1.87137 -0.37193449 -0.01276670 P 0.91 H 21.5 G 0....
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9U01FF6
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A possible piece of space junk with a 31-day orbit period around the Earth. The object will make a close pass (0.2 Lunar Distances, 82,000 km) to the Earth on the 29th October, 2009. Orbital elements: 9U01FF6 Perigee 2009 Oct 29.171830 TT = 4:07:26 (JD 2455133.671830) Epoch 2009 Oct 27.0 TT = JDT 2455...
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The Moon
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Lunar swirls are strange markings on the Moon that resemble swirling cream in coffee. They seem to be curly-cues of pale moondust, twisting and turning across the lunar surface for dozens of miles. Each swirl is utterly flat and protected by a magnetic field.
One of the swirls, [url=http://www...
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