Orbital elements: 2009 ST Earth MOID = 0.3318 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 261.06676 (2000.0) P Q n 0.38190239 Peri. 266.32683 -0.11356841 -0.99305821 a 1.8814866 Node 190.34560 +0.96576214 -0.10310636 e 0.3321529 Incl. 9.81721 +0.23325030 -0.05660796 P 2.58 H 19.8 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 UU1 Earth MOID = 0.0040 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 10.55141 (2000.0) P Q n 0.75652416 Peri. 79.33669 -0.31293853 -0.94456892 a 1.1928546 Node 29.50039 +0.77340151 -0.31411135 e 0.3305870 Incl. 11.63278 +0.55128901 -0.09551762 P 1.30 H 24.7 G 0.15 U 8 [url...
Orbital elements: 2009 UN1 Earth MOID = 0.0716 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 16.35554 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25824427 Peri. 39.00456 +0.75423775 -0.65660074 a 2.4422058 Node 2.03731 +0.59559344 +0.68355342 e 0.5653996 Incl. 1.51805 +0.27639443 +0.31879490 P 3.82 H 25.2 G 0.15 U 7 [url=h...
Orbital elements: 2009 UL1 Earth MOID = 0.0562 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 6.54245 (2000.0) P Q n 0.63980513 Peri. 272.71361 -0.34999601 -0.91542161 a 1.3338415 Node 201.41422 +0.91612377 -0.37877737 e 0.4244291 Incl. 32.98304 -0.19549941 -0.13612850 P 1.54 H 23.7 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2009 UK1 Earth MOID = 0.0027 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 16.35706 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30545371 Peri. 45.98433 +0.54435436 -0.83885322 a 2.1835968 Node 11.03558 +0.76677007 +0.49665735 e 0.5666345 Incl. 0.56821 +0.34020874 +0.22283794 P 3.23 H 26.2 G 0.15 U 6 [url=...
Meade DS2080-LNT Goto Refractor Telescope The DS-2080AT-LNT is a fully GoTo telescope. Its onboard computer knows the night sky. After a short alignment procedure, your telescope will be ready to take you on a tour of the universe. You will see more objects in one night than Galileo saw in a lifetime...
20. Dezember 2009 Winteranfang - Beim Winteranfang läuft die Sonne auf ihrer tiefsten Tagesbahn über den Himmel. Bei der Beobachtung aus der Mitte des Observatoriums durchstrahlt sie am Montag, den 21. Dezember (Tag der diesjährigen Wintersonnenwende) um 16.00 Uhr das elliptische Fenster der...
Eight atolls in the Pacific represent the world's largest marine protected area The Phoenix Islands aren't obvious on a map - eight scattered coral atolls barely above sea level in the equatorial western Pacific. These specks form the most remote coral island archipelago in the world, 1,000 miles...
The Orionid meteor shower, which is expected to peak Wednesday, may have provided an early spectacle. Several people telephoned the World-Herald Saturday at about 8:30 p.m., reporting they had seen an unusually large and bright shooting star in the eastern sky. [url=http://www.omaha.com/art...
On Saturday, in the very stadium at Rice University where Kennedy called on the US nation in 1962 to become the world's leading space-faring nation, Rice will be presented with a lunar rock. Read more
Orbital elements: 2009 UQ PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0176 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 53.28041 (2000.0) P Q n 0.41141597 Peri. 306.08800 +0.70105441 +0.71209950 a 1.7903940 Node 8.73658 -0.54732707 +0.57139089 e 0.5361119 Incl. 14.45217 -0.45711683 +0.40795434 P 2.40 H 21.8 G 0.15 U 8 [...
Orbital elements: 1995 SD1 Earth MOID = 0.2018 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 24.95602 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21219209 Peri. 189.63213 +0.98999319 -0.14104655 a 2.7838762 Node 178.45566 +0.13788685 +0.96024465 e 0.5684908 Incl. 9.39483 +0.03001167 +0.24090678 P 4.64 H 20.6 G 0.15 U [ur...
Astronomers Find Calmest, Driest, Coldest Place On Earth The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth. No human is thought to have ever been there but it is expected to yield images of the heavens thre...
