Orbital elements:
2011 MD2 Earth MOID = 0.0842 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 32.73042 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.90 H 23.5 G 0....
In a bid to win an amazing new resource for East Ayrshire, Doon Academy star pupil Kyle McCormick will present the case for the people's planetarium on STV at 6pm on Monday, 27 June. The planetarium bid has reached the finals of the Jubilee People's Millions - and with enough votes, we can win. [url=htt...
Orbital elements:
2011 MB2 Earth MOID = 0.1043 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 347.52007 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.92307942 Peri. 321.11586 +0.88539397 -0.42031044
a 1.0446641 Node 64.82675 +0.46211659 +0.74970495
e 0.4169158 Incl. 12.67208 +0.05025701 +0.51115714
P 1.07 H 19.9 G...
Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaître (17 July 1894 - 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He sometimes used the title Abbé or Monseigneur. Lemaître proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of...
In Germany, June 27 is Siebenschläfertag (Seven Sleepers Day). The weather on that day is supposed to determine the average weather of the next seven weeks. This is one of the most well-known bits of traditional farmers' weather lore remaining in today's Germany (this and the Ice Saints are the only...
An Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA rocket is scheduled to launch the Insat 4G (GSAT 8) and ST-2 communications satellites from Kourou, French Guiana, on the 11th May, 2011. GSAT-8 includes a transponder for the GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) System (factoid: "gagan" means "...
A leading Okanagan astronomer will explain how the coldest gas in the universe is being measured at the June meeting of the Okanagan Centre RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) in Vernon on Wed. June 29. Dr. Erik Rosolowsky, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UBC Okanagan, will...
The San Antonio Fire Department is investigating what they call a "suspicious" fire at a historic home on East Grayson Street. The vacant home located at 1240 East Grayson was badly burned Sunday afternoon. A placard on the side of the house read 1885, and according to an article publishe...
Nostalgia for the light, Documentary, 2010 Two kinds of quests happen simultaneously in Nostalgia for the Light , a luminous documentary by Chilean director Patricio Guzman. One takes you to the stars; the other to the ground beneath your feet. At a height of 3,000 metres, Chile's lunar-like Ataca...
The 1887 Sonora earthquake occurred at 22:13 UCT on 3 May in the Teras mountain range of northwestern Mexico. It was widely felt, with some damage being recorded up to 200 km from the epicenter in both Mexico and the United States. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.6 and caused 42 casualti...
Orbital elements:
2011 MV1 Earth MOID = 0.2524 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 6.76474 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.34 H 20.2 G 0.1...
Sayh al Uhaymir 060 20058.8' N, 57019.1' E
Oman
Found 2001 June 27
Martian meteorite (basaltic shergottite)
A small 42.28 g partially crusted grey-greenish stone was found near
to the area of previous finds of Sayh al Uhaymir 005/008/051/094. Source
The 31 - 68 metre wide asteroid 2008 CY21 will make a close pass (58.6 lunar distances, 0.1505 AU), travelling at 9.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th June, 2011 @ 14:54 UT ±1 day 02:31. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
The 700 metre wide asteroid 1986 LA will make a close pass (72.1 lunar distances, 0.1853 AU), travelling at 7.93 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th June, 2011 @ 09:01 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
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