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Since 30 years, Vesta, one of the three largest main belt bodies, poses a problem to the scientists: "Given that its basaltic surface is roughly similar to t...

The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States was a late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement in what later became the Virginia Colony. On April 27, 1584, Sir...

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44373373/shytal-...

Nasa's Swift satellite has seen a giant flare explode from a nearby star. Our Sun also flares when twisted magnetic field lines in the solar atmosphere suddenly snap - but this was on a far bigger scale, scientists say. The energy released by the II Pegasi star was equivalent to about 50 million...

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Orbital elements: 2011 QG21 Earth MOID = 0.0517 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 64.27848 (2000.0) P Q n 0.73602632 Peri. 254.88104 -0.73730768 +0.64993811 a 1.2148999 Node 325.05967 -0.42685137 -0.65962833 e 0.4382993 Incl. 18.76910 -0.52361750 -0.37745320 P 1.34 H 22.1...

The 27 - 61 metre wide asteroid 2014 BT8 made a close pass (4.3 lunar distances, 0.0111 AU), travelling at 7.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd January, 2014 @ 05:39 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...

White-light image of sunspot 12398 and the eastern limb.

Sun 09.08.15; Two panel white-light photomosaic captured with a 114mm f5 reflector (Spherical mirror) and vesta pro webcam. non-motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44354005/slobodka-meteorite/

Comet C/2015 F4 (Jacques) is at Opposition (0.772 AU) in the constellation Delphinus on the 7th July 2015 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2015 07 01 20 38 00.7 -01 04 04 0.8052 1.7310 143.4 20.5 12.9 2015 07 02 20 36 34.1 -00 01 39 0.7986 1.7269 143.8 20.3 12.9 2015 07 03 20 35...

Comet P/2009 F7 (LINEAR) was discovered by the LINEAR monitoring telescope in March, 2009. The orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 22nd June, 2009, at a distance of 1.7 AU from the Sun, and a 6.1 year orbital period. [url=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerid...

Orbital Elements 228P/LINEAR Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 T 2011 Aug. 23.8426 TT MPC q 3.430474 (2000.0) P Q n 0.1157764 Peri. 114.7934 -0.8232024 -0.5632830 a 4.169231 Node 31.0663 +0.4583837 -0.7332574 e 0.177193 Incl. 7.9154 +0.3349957 -0.3808488 P 8.51 [url=http://www.cfa.harv...

EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 01 24 08 21 19.0 -15 17 28 2.2212 3.0824 145.4 10.5 20.5 2014 01 25 08 20 17.5 -15 21 27 2.2139 3.0762 145.5 10.4 20.5 2014 01 26 08 19 15.5 -15 25 10 2.2069 3.0700 145.6 10.4 20.5 2014 01 27 08 18 13.2 -15 28 38 2.2001 3.0639 145.6 10.5 20.4 201...

Comet C/2015 A1 (PANSTARRS) makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.711 AU) on the 14th February 2015. EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2015 02 13 000000 10 18 07.2 -71 34 37 1.688 2.023 94.6 29.1 18.7 2015 02 14 000000 10 09 20.9 -72 08 32 1.688 2.022 94.5 29.1 18.7 2015 02 15 000...