The 42 - 93 metre wide asteroid 2015 NT2 will make a close pass (56.5 LD, 0.1453 AU) travelling at 6.49 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st July 2015 @ 23:29 UT ±00:12. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2015 NA14 will make a close pass (23.7 LD, 0.0608 AU) travelling at 5.36 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st July 2015 @ 18:05 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 12 - 27 metre wide asteroid 2014 GS1 will make a close pass (77.0 LD, 0.1978 AU) travelling at 10.73 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st July 2015 @ 09:21 UT ±01:32. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Comet C/1345 O1 made a close approach to the Earth (0.0485 AU, 18.9 Lunar Distance) on the 31st July 1345. The comet was at perihelion on the 23rd August 1345. Read more (PDF)
Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of marionette puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation". The series followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created to help...
LSR J1835+3259 is a nearby brown dwarf star of spectral class M8.5, located in constellation Lyra, the discovery of which was published in 2003, and it is the 3rd nearest M-type brown dwarf after DEN 1048-3956 and LP 944-020. Read more
SOFIA Captures Pluto Occultation It is no easy task to capture the shadow of Pluto as it travels across the surface of Earth at more than 53,000 mph - but that is exactly what NASA scientists and flight crew did on the night of June 29, 2015. In...
Officials urged a small farming town in southern Peru to evacuate on Tuesday after a volcano sent smoke and ash 792 metres into the air, but residents were reluctant to leave.
"A yellow alert has been called, which means precaution due to emission of gases and steam. Civil Defence has sent sma...
The Kokubunji (L6 chondrite) meteorite fell in Shikoku, Japan, on the 29th July, 1986. A total mass of 11.51 kg was recovered. 34° 18'N, 133° 57'E Read more
Death of rare Northern White Rhino leaves four alive One of the last five Northern White Rhino left in the world has died. Nabire, a 31-year-old female, died at the Dvur Kralove zoo in the Czech Republic on Monday evening of a ruptured cyst. Her death leaves just three females and one male alive; one of t...
White-light image of sunspots 12391 and 12390 (right) captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter. DIY focal reducer made from a 30mm achromatic lens (10mm field stop added).
Beta-Cassiopeids meteor maximum in the constellation Cassiopeia on the 30th July, 2011. The shower is active from 3rd July to 19th. August. ZHR=10.0 Velocity=51.6km/s Radiant: RA=23.7h/353° Dec=59.1°
Title: IGR J17463-2854, a Possible Symbiotic Binary System in the Galactic Center Region Author: D.I.Karasev (1), S.S.Tsygankov (2), A.A.Lutovinov (1) (1 - Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia, 2 - Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Finland) This paper is devoted to determining th...
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