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Asteroid (11500) Tomaiyowit (1989 UR) is an Apollo asteroid discovered on October 28, 1989 by Jean Mueller and J. D. Mendenhall on 28 October 1989 at the Palomar Observatory. Read more

The 56 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2000 UR16 will make a close pass (64.7 lunar distances, 0.1661 au), travelling at 19.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th October, 2012 @ 04:27 UT ±04:31. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....

Ian Don Marter (28 October 1944 - 28 October 1986) was an English actor and writer, perhaps best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, from December 1974 to September 1975 as a regular, with a one story return in November and December 1975. He som...

Landon Curt Noll (born October 28, 1960) is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled in high school and concurrently at Cal State Hayward. He was also a member of the Amdahl Six team which discovered anot...

Friedrich Hopfner (28 October 1881 - 5 September 1949) was an Austrian geodesist, geophysicist and planetary scientist. Read more

Orbital elements: 2012 US169 Earth MOID = 0.2156 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 24.19427 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26691918 Peri. 329.70428 +0.75889263 +0.65108374 a 2.3890002 Node 349.64115 -0.58189150 +0.66892798 e 0.4873329 Incl. 4.18194 -0.29237691 +0.35864373 P 3.69 H 20....

Asteroid (3487) Edgeworth (1978 UF) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on October 28, 1978 by H. L. Giclas at Flagstaff. Read more

The 450 - 1000 metre wide asteroid 2001 JW2 will make a close pass (40.4 lunar distances, 0.1037 au), travelling at 13.22 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th October, 2012 @ 11:47 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...

EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2012 10 27 000000 01 59 13.8 +22 51 03 1.620 2.604 169.8 3.9 11.4 2012 10 28 000000 01 58 28.5 +22 42 02 1.620 2.604 170.0 3.8 11.4 2012 10 29 000000 01 57 43.4 +22 32 53 1.620 2.604 170.1 3.8 11.4 2012 10 30 000000 01 56 58.6 +22 23 39 1.620 2.604 170.1 3.8...

The Mino-Owari Earthquake was a large earthquake that struck the former provinces of Mino and Owari in the Nbi Plain area during the Meiji period in Japan. It is also referred to as the Nbi Earthquake or the Great Nbi Earthquake. It is the largest known inland earthquake in Japan. Read more

Sunspots 11599, 11598 and 11596 captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam + Solar filter

Orbital elements: 2012 UT169 Earth MOID = 0.1815 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 23.48815 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30323854 Peri. 346.26977 +0.79018934 +0.61120119 a 2.1942181 Node 335.87809 -0.55135818 +0.67683149 e 0.4568259 Incl. 6.33565 -0.26759105 +0.41028312 P 3.25 H 20....

Orbital elements: 2012 UU169 Earth MOID = 0.0044 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 345.67511 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25488972 Peri. 217.17736 +0.30449604 -0.95071424 a 2.4635866 Node 215.20301 +0.89650080 +0.30680621 e 0.6242223 Incl. 5.82632 +0.32182056 +0.04485952 P 3.87 H 25...

Orbital elements: 1998 WL4 Earth MOID = 0.2190 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 20.52739 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42033587 Peri. 41.48019 -0.08107979 +0.95308056 a 1.7649744 Node 226.20920 -0.98733310 -0.11684085 e 0.7333985 Incl. 23.83025 -0.13637965 +0.27925914 P 2.34 H 19.5 G...

Astronomer captures photos of reported UFO in Pennsylvania An object, which was spotted in the sky by several people across Pike County last week but has still not been identified, was captured on pictures and videos by a local astronomer through his telescope. Allen Epling says his best guess is th...