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Nix is a natural satellite of Pluto. It was discovered along with Hydra in June 2005, and is to be visited along with Pluto by the New Horizons mission in July 2015. The formal name of Pluto's moon "Nix", from the Greek goddess of darkness and night, and mother of Charon, was announced on June...

Title: The Quintuplet Cluster III. Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and cluster age Authors: A. Liermann, W.-R. Hamann, L. M. Oskinova The Quintuplet, one of three massive stellar clusters in the Galactic center, is located about 30pc in projection from Sagittarius A*. Based on near-infrared K-ba...

Juice mission leads billion-euro space race A proposal to study Jupiter's icy moons is now the front runner for selection as a billion-euro space mission. However, formal selection of the mission will have to wait until a European space committee meets to discuss the contenders in May. The Juice m...

Western geologist assists astronaut on future missions Western University planetary geologist Gordon 'Oz' Osinski and his research team will be joined by Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen in the Canadian Arctic to investigate a possible new meteorite impact crater which, i...

A total solar eclipse occurred on July 18, 1860. Read more On the total solar eclipse of July 18th, 1860, observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro in Spain Read more Total solar eclipse on 18th July 1860 See more

Orbital elements: P/2009 WX51 (Catalina) Epoch 2010 Feb. 13.0 TT = JDT 2455240.5 T 2010 Jan. 31.07408 TT MPC q 0.7999560 (2000.0) P Q n 0.18232528 Peri. 118.03122 -0.85754520 -0.50688494 a 3.0801471 Node 31.74167 +0.39375615 -0.75646479 e 0.7402864 Incl. 9.59142 +0.33101710 -0.41331426 P 5.41...

Comet 2006 T1 (Levy) T 2006 Oct. 9.226 TT MPC q 1.07182 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 181.745 -0.276725 -0.907090 Node 284.416 +0.885574 -0.112577 e 1.0 Incl. 19.117 +0.373071 -0.405603 From 40 observations 2006 Oct. 2-3. ate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Ph...

The 420 - 940 metre wide asteroid (242191) 2003 NZ6 will make a close pass (32.4 LD, 0.0833 AU) travelling at 14.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th July 2015 @ 17:55 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)....

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Mark Thompson (born 17 July 1973, Norfolk, England) is a British astronomer, television presenter and writer. He has been called the "Peoples' Astronomer". Read more

Orbital elements: 2015 HM10 Earth MOID = 0.0018 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 358.88019 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25868755 Peri. 354.69178 +0.12906526 +0.99129616 a 2.4394151 Node 282.72195 -0.90882606 +0.10777247 e 0.5853917 Incl. 1.52519 -0.39670815 +0.07561091 P 3.81 H 24.3...

The first spacecraft designed to capture 3-D “stereo” views of the sun and solar wind were shipped, on the 9th November, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland., to NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland., for their next rou...

Trinity was the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 56 km southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the White Sands Proving Ground, now the White Sands Missile Range. Read more...

Orbital elements: P/2015 A3 (PANSTARRS) Epoch 2015 Feb. 27.0 TT = JDT 2457080.5 T 2015 Feb. 22.48949 TT MPCW q 1.1557587 (2000.0) P Q n 0.04478874 Peri. 249.27659 +0.87652095 +0.46370493 a 7.8527806 Node 277.09644 +0.47571354 -0.79345620 e 0.8528217 Incl. 172.51988 +0.07353670 -0.394...