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The 40 - 89 metre wide asteroid 2015 RC made a close pass (10.5 LD, 0.0269 AU) travelling at 19.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th September 2015 @ 09:44 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Online fossil hunters to help comb Kenyan desert Members of the public are being invited to help hunt for fossils in the Kenyan desert, in an online citizen science initiative called Fossilfinder. Volunteers will sift one million images from the arid Turkana Basin, a key area for fossils of early hu...

Title: Evidence for 2009 WN25 being the parent body of the November i-Draconids (NID) Author: Marco Micheli, David J. Tholen, Peter Jenniskens In this work we propose the Amor-type asteroid 2009 WN25 as the likely progenitor of the November i-Draconids (NID, IAU#392), a recently detected weak an...

Meteorites No historic meteorite falls today

Comet C/2015 J2 (PANSTARRS) is at Opposition (3.338 AU) in the constellation Scorpius on the 26th May 2015 EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2015 05 25 000000 16 05 33.9 -23 43 56 3.397 4.408 177.1 0.7 19.1 2015 05 26 000000 16 05 04.7 -23 46 08 3.395 4.407 177.1 0.7 19.1 2015 05 27 00...

Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. It is 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury. Since 2003 the Stonehenge Riverside Project, led by Mike Parker Pearso...

14 panel photomosaic captured with a 8" f5 reflector and vesta pro webcam.

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Orbital Elements 224P/LINEAR-NEAT Epoch 2010 Feb. 13.0 TT = JDT 2455240.5 T 2010 Jan. 31.8363 TT MPC q 1.989593 (2000.0) P Q n 0.1565872 Peri. 16.0938 +0.5550859 -0.8179734 a 3.409038 Node 40.5285 +0.7352415 +0.3976133 e 0.416377 Incl. 13.4361 +0.3889724 +0.4157202 P 6.29 From 88 observations 2...

NGC 307 (UGC 584, MCG +0-3-35 and PGC 3367) is a magnitude +12.8 lenticular galaxy located 160 million light-years in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough on the 6th Sep...

White-light image of sunspot 12409.

Rico Rodriguez - Africa Spoiler Rico Rodriguez MBE (born Emmanuel Rodriguez; 17 October 1934 - 04 September 2015).

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Comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte is at Opposition (2.582 AU) on the 21st March 2014 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 03 20 12 02 24.9 -00 53 27 2.5869 3.5822 178.1 0.5 22.9 2014 03 21 12 01 39.3 -00 47 59 2.5819 3.5778 179.2 0.2 22.9 2014 03 22 12 00 53.5 -00 42 29 2.5771 3...

A good year to find a comet A team of European astronomers has found a previously unknown comet, detected as a tiny blob of light orbiting our Sun deep in the Solar System. Europe's Teide Observatory Tenerife Asteroid Survey team has been credited with discovering comet P/2014 C1, named 'TOTAS' in re...