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The 62 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2015 MP66 will make a close pass (60.6 LD, 0.1556 AU) travelling at 7.51 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th July 2015 @ 11:52 UT ±00:03. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 340 - 750 metre wide asteroid 2015 NF will make a close pass (64.6 LD, 0.1660 AU) travelling at 29.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th July 2015 @ 06:27 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 St. Michel (L6 chondrite) meteorite fell in Mikkeli, Finland, on the 12th July, 1910. A total mass of 17 kg was recovered. 61° 39'N, 27° 12'E

Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to re-evaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led rese...

Stack of 6 white-light images captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

The Gamma observatory was a Soviet-based spacecraft launched on 11 July 1990. The satellite was in an orbit of ~ 375 km altitude, 51.6 degrees inclination. Gamma offered the possibility of locating COS-B sources with a precision of a few arcminutes. The mission lasted ~ 2 years. [url=http://imagi...

India set to launch five UK satellites India is set to put in orbit five foreign satellites, built in Britain, to observe the earth. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) - a 15-storey-high, 320-tonne rocket - will launch the satellites weighing 1440kg in what will be its "heaviest"...

Typhoon Chan-Hom to land in Zhejiang Typhoon Chan-Hom is expected to land somewhere between Sanmen and Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang Province on Saturday afternoon Read more

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43850330/lixna-meteorite/

NASA TV Coverage Set for Launch of Newest Earth-Observing Mission NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission (SMAP) will lift off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:20 a.m. EST (6:20 a.m. PST) on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. Read more

Recovery of the comet P/2002 JN16 (LINEAR) = COMET P/2009 L1 (LINEAR) by Leonid Elenin (Tzec Maun observatory), working for the ROCOT (Recovery off periOdic COmeTs) project, on the 1st June, 2009. Comet P/2002 JN16 (LINEAR) was first discovered on the 9th May, 2002 by the LINEAR monitoring telesco...

What will future civilizations think of Manhattan Island when they dig it up and find a carefully laid out network of streets and avenues? Surely the grid would be presumed to have astronomical significance, just as we have found for the pre-historic circle of large vertical rocks known as Stonehen...

Title: SD 1313-0019 -- Another second-generation star with [Fe/H] = -5.0, observed with the Magellan Telescope Author: Anna Frebel (MIT), Anirudh Chiti (MIT), Alexander P. Ji (MIT), Heather R. Jacobson (MIT), Vinicius M. Placco (Notre Dame U/JINA) We present a Magellan/MIKE high-resolution (...

Title: UGC 7639: a Dwarf Galaxy in the Canes Venatici I Cloud Author: L.M. Buson, D. Bettoni, P. Mazzei, G. Galletta We want to get insight into the nature, i.e. the formation mechanism and the evolution, of UGC 7639, a dwarf galaxy in the Canes Venatici I Cloud (CVnIC). We used archival GALEX (FUV and N...

Orbital elements: C/2012 S1 (ISON) Epoch 2013 Dec. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456640.5 T 2013 Nov. 28.87041 TT MPC q 0.0124527 (2000.0) P Q z +0.0000029 Peri. 345.56137 +0.31509387 +0.51287068 +/-0.0002325 Node 295.65952 -0.75896421 -0.36901142 e 1.0000000 Incl. 62.36426 -0.56981504 +0.77510918...