Strange lights spotted over Kuranda The Cairns Post has been contacted by a local resident who describes seeing a strange yellow light about 7pm, which she suspected was a meteorite. Read more
Orbital elements: 2009 WZ51 Earth MOID = 0.0305 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 16.93008 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27095654 Peri. 337.48427 +0.81286180 -0.56749829 a 2.3652095 Node 57.75201 +0.55523038 +0.68692664 e 0.5773753 Incl. 8.92114 +0.17599693 +0.45395759 P 3.64 H 25.4 G 0.15 U 6 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2009 WY51 Earth MOID = 0.0672 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 27.43291 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25689946 Peri. 86.81771 +0.89340570 +0.40459611 a 2.4507213 Node 249.24475 -0.44803725 +0.83435477 e 0.6893562 Incl. 12.05298 +0.03299807 +0.37437162 P 3.84 H 21.8 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 WC26 Earth MOID = 0.2526 AU Epoch 2009 Nov. 5.0 TT = JDT 2455140.5 MPC M 198.19140 (2000.0) P Q n 0.55081120 Peri. 13.48548 -0.62033165 +0.75541892 a 1.4738984 Node 218.79511 -0.74724311 -0.65096413 e 0.5110619 Incl. 19.68258 -0.23836186 +0.07475271 P 1.79 H 16.9 G 0.15 Fro...
Orbital elements: 2009 WU25 Earth MOID = 0.0111 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 17.34804 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26305101 Peri. 331.20851 +0.84626685 -0.52638307 a 2.4123634 Node 60.78216 +0.50506174 +0.74358051 e 0.6001902 Incl. 5.40286 +0.16954368 +0.41232134 P 3.75 H 25.0 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2009 WT25 Earth MOID = 0.2359 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 13.43994 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28292168 Peri. 170.25194 +0.52088696 -0.84920019 a 2.2980452 Node 248.31010 +0.77675967 +0.51369937 e 0.4678732 Incl. 5.36059 +0.35400733 +0.12236005 P 3.48 H 23.0 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
Meteor Showers There are many minor meteor showers this month... The northern Taurids and southern Taurids start to become active about October 1st, but do not reach maximums until early November. Both have fairly slow meteors, with the northern Taurids velocity at 29 km per second, and the southe...
Orbital elements: 2009 WP25 Earth MOID = 0.2044 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 66.00662 (2000.0) P Q n 0.59132338 Peri. 29.03840 +0.02361866 +0.90582447 a 1.4057864 Node 245.22640 -0.98340329 -0.05508355 e 0.7739827 Incl. 27.76640 -0.17988920 +0.42005693 P 1.67 H 19.7 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
The 170 - 370 metre wide asteroid 1998 VF32 will make a close pass (16.6 Lunar Distances, 0.0426 AU), travelling at 16.89 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd November, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...
A geological controversy over how a 2,700-million-year-old rock was formed has been solved using synchrotron technology, an international team reports. A rare form of magmatic rock known as komatiite was formed in the Earth's mantle at temperatures around 1700 degrees Celcius in the Archaean a...
Soviet SS20 medium range nuclear missileClick to Play | View Details The RSD-10 Pioneer was a intermediate-range ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead deployed by the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1988. Source
Orbital elements: 2009 VZ25 Earth MOID = 0.0014 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 43.27041 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43603845 Peri. 316.91083 +0.98689247 +0.16112924 a 1.7223425 Node 33.81979 -0.14333301 +0.90074260 e 0.4864416 Incl. 0.92439 -0.07415463 +0.40336105 P 2.26 H 26.2 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Daniel Goldin envisioned an initial flotilla of large "terrestrial planet finder" telescopes ("TPF" for short), capable of locating Earth-sized exoplanets and even imaging them - but as no more than smudgy dots. If the TPFs found promising worlds, more ambitious "p...
Orbital elements: 2009 WO8 Earth MOID = 0.0287 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 16.15144 (2000.0) P Q n 0.50741854 Peri. 194.83111 +0.30359918 -0.94501936 a 1.5567725 Node 237.63018 +0.88817243 +0.32686530 e 0.3516735 Incl. 8.27193 +0.34493083 -0.00987339 P 1.94 H 27.2 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...