Orbital elements:
2012 WJ4
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 347.83733 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.17110976 Peri. 164.07510 +0.59519013 -0.75830046
a 3.2133117 Node 248.63625 +0.70259394 +0.65168951
e 0.5926954 Incl. 16.59305 +0.39001341 -0.01676906
P 5.76 H 17.8 G 0.15 U 8 MPEC 2012 - W...
Orbital elements:
2012 WH4
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 337.90758 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.17467735 Peri. 233.06996 +0.62755345 -0.77803201
a 3.1694092 Node 177.42989 +0.73952909 +0.60732824
e 0.5648111 Incl. 40.34841 -0.24346127 -0.16068167
P 5.64 H 17.3 G 0.15 U 8 MPEC 2012 - W...
Orbital elements:
2012 WL4 Earth MOID = 0.2779 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 27.79119 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.58325344 Peri. 130.15790 +0.91041869 +0.26869411
a 1.4187238 Node 217.58207 -0.27201038 +0.96168655
e 0.1383087 Incl. 31.04703 +0.31168601 +0.05442844
P 1.69 H 19.9...
CAVES 2011 compilation In 2011 five astronauts went underground for ESA's CAVES training adventure. ESA's Tim Peake and Thomas Pesquet were joined by Randolph Bresnik from NASA, Norishige Kanai from Japan and Sergey Ryzhikov from Russi...
With the first flight of the launch vehicle Ariane in 1979 a consortium of European firms began exploiting commercial space travel. Ariane was developed for satellite transport. By the end of 1999 the five different versions of the launch vehicle had carried over 70 satellites for research and com...
UCL News podcast - 1 March 2012 UCL News has launched a new podcast to give you the opportunity to listen to the latest news and research from around UCL every fortnight. Split up into three parts, you can either listen to the podcast all in one go, or save features for later listening. [url=http://www....
The staff at the Thomas G. Cupillari Observatory prefer to stare skyward, but lately they have been warily studying the northwest horizon. Less than three miles in that direction from the observatory's hilltop perch, Southwestern Energy Production Co. plans to drill an exploratory natural gas w...
According to GNS, the Taupo volcano first began erupting about 300,000 years ago and it is a given that it will do so again one day. A repeat eruption of the size of either the Oruanui or Taupo eruptions would "devastate most of the North Island", according to GNS. Taupo is part of a belt of act...
Heartlands' first astronomy event Constellation Soup, Milky Way Bavarois, a sweet chilli asteroid belt and, of course, Stargazy Pie are just a few of the gastronomy delights at Heartlands' first astronomy event, Dinner with the Stars on Friday, November 23. Guests will delve into a delicious, th...
Pierre Charles Le Monnier (23 November 1715 - 31 May 1799) was a French astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier. Le Monnier was born in Paris, where his father Pierre (1675-1757), also an astronomer, was professor of philosophy at the college d'Harcourt. His first recorded astronomi...
The final launch of the N-1 Rocket was on November 23, 1972. Vehicle serial number 7L - regular Soyuz 7K-LOK (Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1) and dummy LK module-spacecrafts for Moon flyby - the engines ran for 106.93 seconds after which pogo oscillation of the first stage caused engine cutoff (a problem which al...
A CZ-3C Rocket body that was launched on the 25th July, 2012, from the Xichang Space Center, for the TL-1 Tianlian I-3 satellite mission re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 21st November, 2012 @ 23:45 GMT ± 10 minutes.CZ-3C RB
1 38731U 12040B 12326.80979412 .99999999 -13736-4 50843-2
Meteor causes fire in the sky A fiery meteor streaming across the sky is believed to have caused the sound of a massive explosion that stirred North Queenslanders on Wednesday night. Reports were streaming in yesterday morning of a green-blue flash against the sky and a huge rumble and explosive ban...
NASA Spacecraft Observe a Thanksgiving CME On Nov. 21, 2012, at 16:24 UT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the ESA/NASA mission the Solar a...
