* Astronomy

Comet C/2018 E1 (ATLAS) in the constellation Columba is at perihelion (2.705 AU) on the 17th April 2018

The 12 - 26 metre wide asteroid 2018 GC2 will make a close pass (8.9 lunar distances, 0.02304 AU), travelling at 4.86 km/second, to the Earth on the 17th April 2018 @ 11:16 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 13 - 30 metre wide asteroid 2018 GP4 will make a close pass (11.3 lunar distances, 0.02917 AU), travelling at 9.34 km/second, to the Earth on the 17th April 2018 @ 14:00 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 15 - 34 metre wide asteroid 2018 GK4 will make a close pass (5.8 lunar distances, 0.01509 AU), travelling at 10.82 km/second, to the Earth on the 17th April 2018 @ 16:59 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

A newly discovered ~80-meter asteroid, 2018 GE3, will make a really close flyby of Earth, passing inside the Moon's orbit at a distance of 0.5 Lunar Distance. @BadAstronomer pic.twitter.com/npm34I45Xl Rocket Ron (@RonBaalke) April 15, 2018

The Moon will occult the magnitude 9.8 asteroid (7) Iris at around 19:30 UT, 8th July, 2010. The event is visible from China.

Asteroid 1001 Gaussia (1923 OA) makes its closest approach to the Earth (2.603 AU) on the 16th April 2018

The 77 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2018 FJ29 will make a close pass (30.3 lunar distances, 0.07799 AU), travelling at 11.33 km/second, to the Earth on the 16th April 2018 @ 14:28 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 12 - 26 metre wide asteroid 2016 GB222 will make a close pass (29.0 lunar distances, 0.0745 AU), travelling at 13.51 km/second, to the Earth on the 15th April 2018 @ 19:55 UT ±1 day 10:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 150 - 340 metre wide asteroid 2017 VL15 will make a close pass (39.8 lunar distances, 0.10242 AU), travelling at 12.29 km/second, to the Earth on the 15th April 2018 @ 13:05 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 56 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2018 GJ will make a close pass (43.5 lunar distances, 0.11183 AU), travelling at 18.75 km/second, to the Earth on the 15th April 2018 @ 00:36 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Comet 30P/Reinmuth 1 is at perihelion (1.884 AU) on the 19th April, 2010. Comet 30P/Reinmuth, also known as Comet Reinmuth 1, is a periodic comet in the solar system, first discovered by Karl Reinmuth (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Germany) on February 22, 1928. [url=http://en.wik...

Comet C/2018 F1 (Grauer) is at Opposition (2.944 AU) on the 26th March 2018.

The 1.0 km wide, magnitude 13, asteroid 2008 BT18 will make a near-Earth flyby (5.9 LD, 0.015 AU) on July 14. Astronomers have just discovered that it is a binary system. "The sizes of the two components are 600 m for the primary and >200 m for the secondary. The primary looks spheroidal, b...

Jose Luis Ortiz of Sierra Nevada Observatory has seemingly found a very large Trans Neptunian object while checking out some old images from their TNO survey that was started in 2002. They managed to recover the object on the 29th from the Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca. They measure...