* Astronomy

ESA relay satellite system to spark European and Canadian leadership More than a hundred senior managers and experts from European space industry, national agencies and ESA packed a Geneva conference room earlier this week to learn about the commercial opportunities offered by ESA's planned da...

Major Daylight Fireball Over Southeastern US - January, 24th 2016 The American Meteor Society has received over 50 reports of an extremely bright daylight fireball on Sunday, January 24th, 2016. It was observed over a large portion of the north of Florida and south of Georgia. This event occurred n...

Orbital elements: 2015 EO61 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0092 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 9.84766 (2000.0) P Q n 0.57278112 Peri. 260.71800 +0.56720180 +0.82324057 a 1.4359641 Node 43.86494 -0.74161806 +0.52300874 e 0.7235718 Incl. 1.95190 -0.35816864 +0.22076418 P 1.72 H 21....

Asteroid (115) Thyra is a fairly large and bright inner main-belt asteroid. Named for Thyra, the consort of King Gorm the Old of Denmark. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on August 6, 1871. Read more Google sky file: Asteroid (115) Thyra 2011...

ATel 8566: ASASSN-16at: Discovery of A Probable Nearby Supernova in UGC 08041 Mag 15.1V

Egyptian radiologists who performed the first-ever computed tomography (CT) evaluation of King Tutankhamun’s mummy believe they have solved the mystery of how the ancient pharaoh died. The CT images and results of their study were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of N...

Comet P/2001 TU80 = Comet 2008 R5 (LINEAR-NEAT) The comet P/2001 TU80 was discovered by the NEAT program on November 16, 2001. The comet was recovered on the 8th September, 2008 by J.V. Scotti (Spacewatch II). The comet had an encounter (0.0815 AU) with the planet Jupiter in April 1985 which changed t...

The 600 - 1300 metre wide asteroid 2000 BM19 will make a close pass (45.6 Lunar Distances, 0.1172 AU), travelling at 6.8km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th February 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 930 m - 2.1 km metre wide asteroid (141052) 2001 XR1 will make a close pass (68.8 Lunar Distances, 0.1769 AU) to the Earth-Moon system on 1st February 2009. See more Asteroid (141052) 2001 XR1 was discovered on the 9th Decmber 2001, by LINEAR (Socorro observatory). Orbital elements: 2001 XR1 Epoc...

Gemini Helps Confirm Dark "Noodles" in Milky Way Today, in the journal Science, Australian scientist Keith Bannister announced findings that might help solve a 30-year old mystery. Bannister and his team used Gemini to provide baseline optical observations of a quasar (PKS 1939-315...

Orbital elements: 2012 NN PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0279 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 26.94312 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23658438 Peri. 6.39985 -0.43999121 +0.89540856 a 2.5890792 Node 237.51647 -0.82744407 -0.43375818 e 0.6296323 Incl. 4.63738 -0.34891840 -0.10048555 P 4.17 H 20.8...

Orbital elements: 2016 BE1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0332 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 10.62096 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28227758 Peri. 17.53864 +0.25935500 -0.95955300 a 2.3015396 Node 57.55710 +0.86980610 +0.18279422 e 0.5985371 Incl. 7.45605 +0.41972889 +0.21411284 P 3.49 H 20.3...

NGC 3926 (also NGC 3926A/B MCG +04-28-073/074, UGC 6829 and PGC 37079/80) is a magnitude +14.3 Pair of elliptical galaxies located 390 and 354 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxies were discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch...

ATel 8569: ASASSN-16av: Discovery of A Type Ia Supernova in NGC 3926 NED02 Mag 16.5V

The 6.2 km wide asteroid 1685 Toro will flyby the Earth (76 Lunar Distances, magnitude 13) on January 24h, 2008.