The 11 - 25 metre wide asteroid 2015 QH3 made a close pass (4.4 LD, 0.0113 AU) travelling at 7.10 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st August 2015 @ 18:17 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
First Blue John vein in 150 years found in Derbyshire Peak District A vein of Blue John stone has been found in Derbyshire, 150 years after the last discovery. The rare mineral, only found beneath Treak Cliff Hill, near Castleton in the Peak District, is so called because of its distinctive colour. Th...
The Dar al Gani 975 (shergottite) meteorite was found in Libya, on the 21st August 1999. 27°19.63'N, 16°13.00'E So for, a total of 10.5 kg. of basaltic shergottite have been found of the Dar al Gani shower. Read more (PDF)
The 8.2 kiloyear event is the term that climatologists have adopted for a sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred approximately 8,200 years before the present, or c. 6,200 BCE, and which lasted for the next two to four centuries. Milder than the Younger Dryas cold spell that preceded i...
World record as message in bottle found by same boat after 98 years near Shetland A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released. Andrew Leaper's discovery beat the previous record for the longest time a bottle has been adrift at sea by mor...
Orbital elements:
2015 PM307 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0445 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 328.32637 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31166530 Peri. 319.26229 -0.19996222 -0.97606014
a 2.1544863 Node 142.04430 +0.93119896 -0.21648098
e 0.8585506 Incl. 7.99702 +0.30476811 +0.02103799
P 3.16...
A Hubble Cosmic Couple Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 - more commonly known as WR 124 - and the nebula M1-67 which surrounds it. Both objects, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are found in the constellation of Sagittarius and lie 15,000 light-year...
The 480 - 1100 metre wide asteroid (206378) 2003 RB will make a close pass (20.7 LD, 0.0531 AU) travelling at 8.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd August 2015 @ 02:59 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
The 20 - 44 metre wide asteroid 2015 PW227 will make a close pass (25.2 LD, 0.0646 AU) travelling at 10.51 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd August 2015 @ 12:54 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 2015 QK made a close pass (4.7 LD, 0.0120 AU) travelling at 8.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th August 2015 @ 02:55 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 50 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 QJ made a close pass (23.5 LD, 0.0604 AU) travelling at 8.31 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th August 2015 @ 19:34 UT ±00:12. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Title: S5 1803+78 revisited Authors: R. Nesci (1), A. Maselli (2), F. Montagni (3) ((1) University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (2) INAF-IASF, Palermo, Italy, (3) Greve in Chianti Observatory, Italy) We report on our optical monitoring of the BL Lac object S5 1803+78 from 1996 to 2011. The source show...
An Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA rocket is scheduled to launch the Eutelsat 8 West B and Intelsat 34 satellites from Kourou, French Guiana between 20:10 - 2156 UT, 20th August 2015. Live: www.arianespace.tv
