The 10 metre wide asteroid 2008 EM68 will pass the Earth-Moon system on the 11th March, 2011. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 17:08:36 (UTC) on Thursday, March 10, 2011, in the Bali Sea region, about 200 km NNE of Mataram, Lombok, at a depth of 510 km. Location 6.895°S, 116.787°E
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A 4000-year-old standing stone in Angus has fallen over due to severe winter weather. The Carlinwell stone at Airlie, near Kirriemuir, toppled over as the snow, ice and frost from the long cold spell melted away. The 7ft prehistoric unsculptured standing stone is situated on the crest of a knoll on a...
James Ludlow Elliot, a professor of planetary astronomy and physics at MIT who discovered the rings of Uranus in 1977, died on March 3 from cancer-related complications. He was 67. Elliot was known as one of the great observational planetary astronomers of the modern era. Among his accomplishment...
Orbital elements: 2011 EK40 Earth MOID = 0.0426 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 28.0 TT = JDT 2455620.5 MPC M 3.65828 (2000.0) P Q n 0.73705908 Peri. 354.07576 -0.89647108 -0.44265748 a 1.2137647 Node 159.61471 +0.40884195 -0.84359732 e 0.1493689 Incl. 3.26653 +0.17084454 -0.30397025 P 1.34 H 27.4 G 0.15 From...
Orbital elements: 2011 EL40 Earth MOID = 0.0066 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 3.09722 (2000.0) P Q n 0.22929352 Peri. 267.49607 -0.10518137 -0.99444659 a 2.6436758 Node 188.54404 +0.92171730 -0.09613376 e 0.7314991 Incl. 1.38320 +0.37332841 -0.04282852 P 4.30 H 26.3 G 0.15 U 8 MPE...
Orbital elements: 2011 EM40 Earth MOID = 0.0012 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 28.0 TT = JDT 2455620.5 MPC M 42.90366 (2000.0) P Q n 0.80777969 Peri. 263.01707 +0.22434417 -0.97450944 a 1.1418457 Node 174.01832 +0.89793756 +0.20630707 e 0.3622572 Incl. 0.56409 +0.37865265 +0.08814051 P 1.22 H 27.9 G 0.15 Fro...
UFO spotted above Siberia A UFO in the skies above Siberia is being investigated by Emergencies Ministry staff after concerned locals claimed they were visited by something unexplained. Residents of Ossinsky district in Irkutsk Region said a loud, glowing object appeared in the sky but nobody ha...
Title: HAT-P-28b and HAT-P-29b: Two Sub-Jupiter Mass Transiting Planets Authors: L. A. Buchhave, G. A. Bakos, J. D. Hartman, G. Torres, D. W. Latham, J. Andersen, G. Kovacs, R. W. Noyes, A. Shporer, G. A. Esquerdo, D. A. Fischer, J. A. Johnson, G. W. Marcy, A. W. Howard, B. Beky, D. D. Sasselov, G. Fure...
Title: The Discovery of a Strong Magnetic Field and Co-rotating Magnetosphere in the Helium-weak Star HD 176582 Authors: David A. Bohlender, Dmitry Monin We report the detection of a strong, reversing magnetic field and variable H-alpha emission in the bright helium-weak star HD 176582 (HR 7185...
Title: UX Mon as a W Ser binary Authors: D. Sudar, P. Harmanec, H. Lehmann, S. Yang, H. Boi, D. Rudjak Using our new photometric and spectroscopic observations as well as all available published data, we present a new interpretation of the properties of the peculiar emission-line binary UX Mon. We co...
A meteor was observed in the Campos dos Goytacazes region, Brazil at about 21.00 UT, 19th June 200. An 600 gram ordinary chondrite meteorite was recovered by a ranch worker in Varre-Sai, Rio de Janeiro State.
Orbital elements: 2011 EV29 Earth MOID = 0.0082 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 18.66330 (2000.0) P Q n 0.65277412 Peri. 115.97671 -0.01874974 -0.99863286 a 1.3161158 Node 334.95230 +0.87116964 +0.00763035 e 0.3781141 Incl. 6.61810 +0.49062399 -0.05171260 P 1.51 H 24.1 G 0.15 U 8 MP...
Orbital elements: 2011 EW29 Earth MOID = 0.1146 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 336.05321 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47846296 Peri. 179.85757 -0.98134532 +0.18185488 a 1.6189639 Node 11.21913 -0.17670450 -0.72537849 e 0.3120119 Incl. 18.69755 -0.07574223 -0.66389370 P 2.06 H 21.0 G 0.15 U 8 M...
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