The 290 - 650 metre wide asteroid 1998 XX2 will make a close pass (52.8 lunar distances, 0.1356 au), travelling at 10.62 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th October, 2012 @ 14:17 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
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Julie Payette, OC, CQ (born October 20, 1963, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian engineer and a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, logging more than 25 days in space. She serves as Chief Astronaut for the CSA, and has served in other ro...
Orbital elements:
2012 UP27 Earth MOID = 0.2047 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 34.79911 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.47437037 Peri. 130.67158 +0.81150248 +0.58377550
a 1.6282622 Node 193.67720 -0.56371513 +0.77041321
e 0.2649474 Incl. 6.28423 -0.15391222 +0.25626092
P 2.08 H 20.2...
Pro bono work with meteorite law inspires lawyer's TEDx talk A Vancouver lawyer is getting a chance to take his passion for meteors to a broader audience as a featured speaker part of TEDx Vancouver Oct. 21. Doug Schmitt is a partner with Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, and a former oceanographe...
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Imagine two stars with winds so powerful that they eject an Earth's worth of material roughly once every month. Next, imagine those two winds colliding head-on. Such titanic collisions produce multimillion-degree gas, which radiates brilliantly in X-rays. Astronomers have conclusively...
