Orbital elements:
2010 SG13 Earth MOID = 0.0657 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
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P 1.40 H 18....
Orbital elements:
2011 QD50 Earth MOID = 0.0197 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 40.10072 (2000.0) P Q
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Eberswalde, formerly known as Holden NE, is a partially buried impact crater in Margaritifer Terra, Mars. Eberswalde Crater lies just to the north of Holden Crater, a large crater that may have been a lake. The 65.3-km-diameter crater, centered at 24°S, 33°W, is named after the German town of the sa...
Every year, media coverage of Burning Man gets it wrong. Scott G presents many myth-busting details about the annual celebration held the week before Labour Day on the Playa of Black Rock Desert, 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada. Fiction: In the media, Burning Man is sometimes called an unstructured...
A Wigan man had an out of this world experience during a fossil search, stumbling across the remnants of a meteorite. Retired engineer and commercial inventor Jim Winstanley, 70, agreed to a "pass the time" dinosaur hunt with his nine-year-old granddaughter, Emma Roberts at Bideford,...
There's a lot in the stars for the Joseph Rogers Observatory these days: Its uber-high powered, computerised, made-for-NASA telescope is getting the final few calibrations before being unveiled to student star-searchers. Dozens of smaller telescopes are about to be doled out to area high schoo...
Meteorites Possible From Irish Fireball Astronomy Ireland (AI) has confirmed that a fireball meteor entered the atmosphere above Ireland in the early hours of Tuesday morning (23 August 2011). The organisation added that meteor fragments are likely to have reached the surface but it remains unc...
Loud bangs still puzzling neighbours in Chapin Imagine relaxing at home when you're suddenly jolted by a loud boom and vibrations. That's what happened for some folks in Lexington and Newberry counties. Two days after the fact, people are still reaching out to our newsroom, they want answers about...
Do you love space? Are you good about sharing your love of the stars with the public? are you a U.S. citizens? If so, NASA wants you to become part of a growing network of space enthusiasts who have volunteered as NASA Solar System Ambassadors. Applications are being accepted through Sept. 30. [url=h...
Orbital elements:
2011 QS49 Earth MOID = 0.0125 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 336.15180 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.85 H 24.2 G...
Title: WISEP J180026.60+013453.1: A Nearby Late L Dwarf Near the Galactic Plane Authors: John E. Gizis, Adam J. Burgasser, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Philip J. Castro, Michael M. Shara We report a nearby L7.5 dwarf discovered using the Preliminary Data Release of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Expl...
Brian May, the guitarist with the rock group Queen, has returned to his first love of astronomy with plans for a book on “the complete history of the universe”.
He is working with Sir Patrick Moore, the astronomer, and Chris Lintott, Moore’s co-presenter on the BBC’s [url=http://my...