The 13 - 29 metre wide asteroid 2005 BU will make a close pass (20.1 lunar distances, 0.0517 AU), travelling at 11.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th January, 2012 @ 05:17 UT ±00:41. See moreThe Lunar Distanc...
The 41 - 92 metre wide asteroid 2004 YD will make a close pass (50.0 lunar distances, 0.1284 AU), travelling at 8.45 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th January, 2012 @ 14:03 UT ±2 days 19:02. See moreThe Lunar Dis...
Orbital elements:
2011 XD Earth MOID = 0.0471 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 237.48513 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.66870946 Peri. 82.65367 -0.95817708 -0.23186438
a 1.2951232 Node 83.83211 +0.14644248 -0.90084062
e 0.3495299 Incl. 9.71302 +0.24586844 -0.36704915
P 1.47 H 24.0 G 0.1...
Title: XMMU J0541.8-6659, a new supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud Authors: M.-H. Grondin, M. Sasaki, F. Haberl, W. Pietsch, E. J. Crawford, M. D. Filipovic, L. M. Bozzetto, S. Points, R. C. Smith The high sensitivity of the XMM-Newton instrumentation offers the opportunity to study...
An aboriginal dreaming story about a star crashing to Earth with a noise like thunder has led to the discovery of an ancient meteorite crater in central Australia. A Sydney astronomer, Duane Hamacher, found the bowl-shaped crater in Palm Valley, about 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, b...
Maxima of long period variable S Leonis on the 6th January, 2012. Magnitude: 10.1-13.9 Period: 190.16 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 11 10 50.378 | Dec. +05° 27' 35.11''
The 26 - 58 metre wide asteroid 2008 SA will make a close pass (21.9 lunar distances, 0.0563 AU), travelling at 6.63 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th January, 2011 @ 07:30 UT ±18:41. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
NASA rubbishes space junk theory The US space agency NASA has cast doubt on whether it was Russian space junk that came close to hitting an Auckland-bound plane over the Pacific Ocean. But NASA says the plane still had a near-miss with something from out of this world. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/n...
A chance reading of a "for sale" advertisement in a weekly newspaper has launched a group of 30 space history buffs on a mission to save the 30-meter Jamesburg AT&T/Comsat satellite dish about an hour from Monterey, California. The dish was built in 1968 to support the Apollo 11 moon l...
Orbital elements:
2006 HV57 Earth MOID = 0.1503 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 85.79471 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21689679 Peri. 17.43044 +0.21167611 +0.97175969
a 2.7434726 Node 264.88632 -0.90870605 +0.15640528
e 0.5758323 Incl. 6.01025 -0.35978681 +0.17669323
P 4.54 H 18.5 G 0...
The moon captured with a Vesta pro webcam through a 60mm shortfocus refractor. Baader contrast filter + UV + IR-cut filter (B/W camera mode) Mare Nubium and Copernicus crater (upper left)
Title: The Sculptured Hills of the Taurus Highlands: Implications for the relative age of Serenitatis, basin chronologies and the cratering history of the Moon Authors: Paul D. Spudis, Don E. Wilhelms and Mark S. Robinson New images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera show the distribu...
Orbital elements:
2012 AF3 Earth MOID = 0.0191 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 154.81611 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.90260543 Peri. 251.70686 +0.97572973 +0.04746816
a 1.0604025 Node 105.14078 +0.02753633 +0.94187609
e 0.1421291 Incl. 12.79474 -0.21724006 +0.33259015
P 1.09 H 24.7...
Orbital elements:
2012 AE3 Earth MOID = 0.2636 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 321.03874 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.57952274 Peri. 290.75587 -0.63918537 +0.42314249
a 1.4248060 Node 279.73905 -0.18819372 -0.89569810
e 0.1864439 Incl. 40.65993 -0.74567096 -0.13665777
P 1.70 H 20.0...
Orbital elements:
2012 AD3 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0283 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 55.92084 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30222733 Peri. 215.59544 +0.99546654 -0.08166524
a 2.1991097 Node 148.98080 +0.09305437 +0.94229164
e 0.6092676 Incl. 5.42901 -0.01967887 +0.32468025
P 3.26 H 19...
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