Orbital elements:
2013 AO27 Earth MOID = 0.0589 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 347.91975 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25414465 Peri. 189.65708 +0.84855059 +0.52667973
a 2.4683992 Node 138.43254 -0.48021167 +0.80681383
e 0.8772400 Incl. 4.38229 -0.22216806 +0.26769367
P 3.88 H 19....
Orbital elements:
2013 AL11 Earth MOID = 0.0519 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 313.26029 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.55958449 Peri. 334.67447 +0.05952385 -0.99565424
a 1.4584524 Node 111.84511 +0.92848377 +0.02887489
e 0.2959781 Incl. 4.42543 +0.36657169 +0.08853740
P 1.76 H 23....
Orbital elements:
2013 AC32 Earth MOID = 0.1169 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 302.75392 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.55583658 Peri. 179.93844 -0.36232382 -0.75333851
a 1.4650011 Node 291.29273 +0.85488931 -0.03401702
e 0.2496455 Incl. 36.08805 +0.37132966 -0.65675256
P 1.77 H 23...
Hi guys! I'm Nick from Movoto, a fun real estate blog. We were motivated by the announcement that China was going to send a lunar craft to the moon this year and wanted to know what a house on the moon would look like. We also wanted to see how big it would have to be to see it from earth. So we crunched some numb...
Orbital elements:
2013 AU27 Earth MOID = 0.1047 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 304.76493 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.57010857 Peri. 169.18924 -0.30602402 -0.82193308
a 1.4404483 Node 297.04944 +0.82827486 +0.01891649
e 0.2476592 Incl. 32.64230 +0.46937198 -0.56926987
P 1.73 H 18...
The Farthest Supernova Yet for Measuring Cosmic History What if you had a "Wayback Television Set" and could watch an entire month of ancient prehistory unfold before your eyes in real time? David Rubin of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkele...
Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 - October 12, 1979) was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Cambridge in 1926. After receiving her master's degree, she was hired by General Electric, where she invented low-reflectance "invisible" glass. Read m...
Harold Lee Alden (January 10, 1890 - February 3, 1964) was an American astronomer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He worked for twenty years at the Yale Observatory in South Africa before returning to the University of Virginia. He is noted mainly for measuring stellar parallax, the proper motio...
Title: A new Extended Main Sequence Turnoff star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud Authors: Andrés E. Piatti We present results on the age and metallicity estimates of the poorly studied LMC cluster SL 529, from CCD SDSS gr photometry obtained at the Gemini South telescope with the GMOS attache...
Sunspots 11654, 11653, 11652, 11649, 11650, 11646, 11644, 11642, 11645 and 11638 captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam. Music via an Amiga 1200
Meteor sighting in skies over Moose Jaw Moose Jaw resident Greg Wheler saw a meteor in the northern Moose Jaw skies close to 10 p.m. Monday night. Read more
The 130 - 280 metre wide asteroid 2003 YS17 will make a close pass (63.4 lunar distances, 0.1628 AU), travelling at 14.70 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th January, 2013 @ 19:55 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). The award purse was also shared with a third scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, for unrela...
Simon Marius (Latinised from German Simon Mayr) (January 10, 1573 - December 26, 1624) was a German astronomer. In 1614 Marius published his work Mundus Iovialis describing the planet Jupiter and its moons. Here he claimed to have discovered the planet's four major moons some days before Galileo G...