The 190 - 430 metre wide asteroid 2005 ED318 will make a close pass (27.1 lunar distances, 0.0697 AU), travelling at 8.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th June, 2010 @ 11:41 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (...
Tombaugh Regio is a prominent surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto. It is a large, light-coloured region about 1,590 km across. NASA initially referred to it as a "heart" in reference to its overall shape. The name Tombaugh Regio is currently unofficial. Read more
Hydra is the second outermost known natural satellite of Pluto. It was discovered along with Nix in June 2005, and is to be visited along with Pluto by the New Horizons mission in July 2015. The name Hydra was announced on June 21, 2006, in IAU Circular 8723, along with the formal designation Pluto III....
A lightweight solar-powered plane has smashed the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight. UK defence firm Qinetiq, which built the Zephyr unmanned aerial vehicle, said it flew for 54 hours during tests. The researchers believe it is the first time a solar-powered craft h...
Lake Afton Public Observatory to close The Lake Afton Observatory will close next month. Attendance at the observatory is about 4,000 a year, roughly half what it was when it opened in 1981. The final public program at Lake Afton, "Sizing up Saturn," will be Aug. 22. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 BM86 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0163 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 352.14916 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.34317272 Peri. 51.44057 -0.78516428 +0.61783417
a 2.0205094 Node 166.54087 -0.60961435 -0.75903162
e 0.5932131 Incl. 10.49679 -0.10902938 -0.20530936
P 2.87 H...
The 120 - 270 metre wide asteroid 2015 JJ2 will make a close pass (35.1 LD, 0.0903 AU) travelling at 6.84 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th July 2015 @ 06:30 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Title: GIOVE - A New Detector Setup for High Sensitivity Germanium Spectroscopy At Shallow Depth Author: Gerd Heusser, Marc Weber, Janina Hakenmüller, Matthias Laubenstein, Manfred Lindner, Werner Maneschg, Hardy Simgen, Dominik Stolzenburg, Herbert Strecker We report on the development a...
Title: Discovery of a New Blue Quasar: SDSS J022218.03-062511.1 Author: Mees B. Fix (1), J. Allyn Smith (1), Douglas L. Tucker (2), William Wester (2), James Annis (2) ((1) Austin Peay State University, (2) Fermilab) We report the discovery of a bright blue quasar: SDSS J022218.03-062511.1. This...
Title: Lyman-alpha Emission from a Luminous z=8.68 Galaxy: Implications for Galaxies as Tracers of Cosmic Reionization Author: Adi Zitrin, Ivo Labbe, Sirio Belli, Rychard Bouwens, Richard S. Ellis, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Daniel P. Stark, Pascal A. Oesch, Renske Smit We report the discovery o...
Title: The Double Peaked SN2013ge: a Type Ib/c SN with an Early Asymmetric Mass Ejection or an Extended Progenitor Envelope Author: M. R. Drout, D. Milisavljevic, J. Parrent, R. Margutti, A. Kamble, A. M. Soderberg, P. Challis, R. Chornock, W. Fong, S. Frank, N. Gehrels, M. L. Graham, E. Hsiao, K. It...
New, higher precision data gathered at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) shows the Theta-plus pentaquark doesn't appear in another place it was expected.
This intriguing finding contradicts evidence previously presente...
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