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Orbital elements: 2013 AP20 Earth MOID = 0.0244 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 321.35369 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47689593 Peri. 156.42908 +0.06882574 -0.99575210 a 1.6225085 Node 289.57874 +0.90467081 +0.08813722 e 0.3852520 Incl. 3.72198 +0.42051604 -0.02663820 P 2.07 H 27....

Orbital elements: 2013 AO20 Earth MOID = 0.0890 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 318.40093 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46383129 Peri. 177.18610 -0.12216530 -0.89353577 a 1.6528344 Node 279.54857 +0.90184053 +0.08183654 e 0.3519701 Incl. 25.98416 +0.41443853 -0.44147096 P 2.12 H 21...

Orbital elements: 2013 AM20 Earth MOID = 0.1021 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 317.30199 (2000.0) P Q n 0.60142175 Peri. 338.01999 +0.09258660 -0.98391406 a 1.3900059 Node 106.40382 +0.93561346 +0.03347237 e 0.2257118 Incl. 9.16393 +0.34066873 +0.17547854 P 1.64 H 23....

Orbital elements: 2013 AL20 Earth MOID = 0.0636 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 333.84515 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26493048 Peri. 18.35423 -0.30788052 -0.95138545 a 2.4009407 Node 89.57803 +0.87182475 -0.28576251 e 0.5644014 Incl. 0.49725 +0.38096089 -0.11491527 P 3.72 H 25.1 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 AK20 Earth MOID = 0.1570 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 338.90764 (2000.0) P Q n 0.62888893 Peri. 296.90614 +0.66066161 -0.69224482 a 1.3492324 Node 108.56252 +0.75017948 +0.59464357 e 0.2228225 Incl. 17.83763 +0.02751351 +0.40889624 P 1.57 H 23...

Archaeologists unearth more than 300 prehistoric clay figurines in Greece Archaeologists from the University of Southampton studying a Neolithic archaeological site in central Greece have helped unearth over 300 clay figurines, one of the highest density for such finds in south-eastern Euro...

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The Soheria (OC) meteorite fell in Bihar, India, on the 8th January, 1960. A total mass of 72.9 g was recovered. 27° 8'N, 84° 4'E

Title: Paleoearthquakes and slip rates of the North Tabriz Fault, NW Iran: preliminary results Authors: Khaled Hessami, Daniela Pantosti, Hadi Tabassi, Esmael Shabanian, Mohammad R. Abbassi, Khalil Feghhi and Shahryar Solaymani The North Tabriz Fault is a major seismogenic fault in NW Iran. T...

Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS (8 January 1868 - 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in testing Einstein's theory of general relativity. R...

Celebrating 400 Years of Sunspot Observations Johannes Fabricius published the first scientific manuscript, titled De Maculis in Sole observatis et Apparente earum cum Sole Conversione Narratio (Narration on Spots Observed on the Sun and their Apparent Rotation with the Sun), on sunspots in J...

The Trans-en-Provence Case is one of the rare cases where a UFO is said to have left physical evidence, in the form of burnt residue from a field. The event took place on January 8, 1981, outside the town of Trans-en-Provence in the French département of Var. It has been described as "perhaps the m...

2000 year old roman shipwreck discovered off Italian coast Divers searching off Italy's northeastern coast have discovered the wreck of a trade ship believed to have sunk there about two-thousand years ago. Read more

Orbital elements: 2013 AN20 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0363 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 305.66870 (2000.0) P Q n 0.55610605 Peri. 355.72443 -0.19854789 -0.90426533 a 1.4645278 Node 105.39141 +0.91044291 -0.31296144 e 0.3048883 Incl. 23.08272 +0.36286697 +0.29044681 P 1.7...

Title: Imaging Discovery of the Debris Disk Around HIP 79977 Authors: C. Thalmann (1), M. Janson (2), E. Buenzli (3), T. D. Brandt (2), J. P. Wisniewski (4), C. Dominik (1), J. Carson (5), M. W. McElwain (6), T. Currie (7), G. R. Knapp (2), A. Moro-Martín (8), T. Usuda (9), L. Abe (10), W. Brandner (11), S...