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Orbital elements: 2012 CR36 Earth MOID = 0.0834 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 314.54035 (2000.0) P Q n 0.65895248 Peri. 278.00832 -0.32762159 +0.92097404 a 1.3078762 Node 330.03714 -0.61102281 -0.37677444 e 0.3275670 Incl. 24.97588 -0.72063529 -0.09923633 P 1.50 H 23....

Various services have arisen that claim to put your name on a star for a fee. Unfortunately, as nice as it sounds, these names don't count: You pay your money and get a certificate, but it isn't recognised by the only organisation that actually matters, the International Astronomical Union. [url=ht...

A Lockheed Martin Titan 4B rocket, known as B-30, launched a classified payload (a LACROSSE 5 radar-imaging satellite) for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket was expected to launch sometime between...

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Orbital elements: 2012 CR45 Earth MOID = 0.0289 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 5.55881 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52203987 Peri. 12.74945 -0.96703343 -0.25296506 a 1.5275670 Node 152.54389 +0.22771590 -0.91043010 e 0.3338425 Incl. 3.63611 +0.11398163 -0.32730066 P 1.89 H 25.7 G 0....

Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves. Read more

Khawaja Muammad ibn Muammad ibn asan s (born 18 February 1201 in s, Khorasan - died on 26 June 1274 in al-Kaimiyyah district of metropolitan Baghdad), better known as Nar al-Dn al-s, was a Persian polymath and prolific writer: an astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, philosopher, physi...

Jupiter in two different resolutions on 02/13/2012 Credit brahman42 2 webcam videos of Jupiter. First one low resolution, second one high resolution. Both videos edited with Registax6 to get more details. Skywatcher 102/1300 AZ GOTO IR...

Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 - January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. Tombaugh is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, but also discovered many asteroids, and called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects. [url=http://en.wikip...

The 18 - 39 metre wide asteroid 2002 TZ66 will make a close pass (57.3 lunar distances, 0.1471 AU), travelling at 4.30 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th November, 2011 @ 08:10 UT ±00:47. See more The Lunar Dis...

India planning Venus mission An Indian scientific mission to Venus is being considered by the space community. This was announced by M S Anurup of Isro at the 17th National Space Science Symposium which has been jointly organised by Isro and Sri Venkateshwara University. [url=http://timesofind...

Robonaut 2: ISS Task Board Robonaut Shakes Hands Robonaut is a humanoid robotic development project conducted by the Dextrous Robotics Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Cent...

Google earth file: Comet P2012 C3 (PANSTARRS).kmz (17kb, kmz) Orbital elements: P/2012 C3 (PANSTARRS) T 2011 Oct. 11.99298 TT MPC q 3.6784292 (2000.0) P Q n 0.03396808 Peri. 346.39953 -0.53189492 -0.83908513 a 9.4425383 Node 135.58512 +0.79138925 -0.54050273 e 0.6104406 Incl. 9.3849...

Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and Controlling Department in east Jiangsu province. [ur...

Tobias Mayer (17 February 1723 - 20 February 1762) was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon. Read more