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Comet 148P/Anderson-LINEAR is at Opposition (3.697 AU) on the 3rd August, 2013. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 08 02 20 55 45.1 -20 31 08 3.6999 4.7135 176.8 0.7 2013 08 03 20 55 03.2 -20 34 16 3.6967 4.7103 176.9 0.7 2013 08 04 20 54 21.3 -20 37 22 3.6938 4.7071 176.6...

Orbital elements: C/2009 Q4 (Boattini) T 2009 Nov. 1.603 TT MPC q 1.50024 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 301.086 +0.219460 -0.965345 Node 135.512 +0.949652 +0.178191 e 1.0 Incl. 11.627 +0.223603 +0.190676 From 39 observations 2009 Aug. 26-31.[url=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09Q84.html]MP...

Comet 301P/LINEAR-NEAT is at Perihelion (2.362 AU) on the 2nd September 2014 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 09 01 11 42 57.3 +00 05 56 3.3033 2.3627 17.8 7.5 19.3 2014 09 02 11 44 48.2 -00 08 46 3.3063 2.3626 17.4 7.3 19.3 2014 09 03 11 46 39.1 -00 23 29 3.3093 2.3626 16.9...

Comet 238P/Read is at Perihelion (2.360 AU) on the 10th March, 2011.

One-Year Crew Set for Launch to Space Station; NASA TV to Air Live Coverage The prime crew members for International Space Station Expedition 43 take a break in training for a crew portrait. From left are Flight Engineers Scott Kelly of NASA, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos. Kell...

2 panel white-light photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

The ability to digest milk may have become common only relatively recently in Europe, a major study of ancient DNA shows. The analysis of genomes from 101 ancient adults suggests the gene for breaking down the lactose sugar in milk was still rare in the Bronze Age. Read more

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (27 May 1922 - 7 June 2015[2]) was an English actor, singer and author. Read more

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Orbital elements: 2007 RQ17 Earth MOID = 0.0215 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 344.49884 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49529693 Peri. 298.41946 +0.38758480 +0.92182816 a 1.5820697 Node 354.38180 -0.83354890 +0.34893587 e 0.3707059 Incl. 1.92978 -0.39366770 +0.16875013 P 1.99 H 22.6 G 0.15 U 1...

The 37 - 82 metre wide asteroid 2014 YD will make a close pass (37.9 LD, 0.0975 AU) travelling at 1.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th June 2015 @ 15:03 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Orbital elements: P/2003 T12 = 2012 A3 (SOHO) Epoch 2012 Feb. 3.0 TT = JDT 2455960.5 T 2012 Jan. 26.53754 TT MPC q 0.5769327 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23941646 Peri. 217.70408 +0.82640143 -0.56295170 a 2.5686211 Node 176.49004 +0.55262665 +0.80675389 e 0.7753921 Incl. 11.38550 +0.10800216 +0.179...

Orbital elements: P/2013 TL117 (Lemmon) Epoch 2014 Mar. 4.0 TT = JDT 2456720.5 T 2014 Feb. 18.21879 TT MPC q 1.1176706 (2000.0) P Q n 0.14401094 Peri. 112.20037 -0.43074097 -0.90242520 a 3.6047271 Node 3.36016 +0.75644904 -0.36678818 e 0.6899431 Incl. 9.36584 +0.49218601 -0.22604245 ...

A team of investigators is heading to one of the most remote islands in the Pacific next week to resolve a 70-year-old mystery: what happened to Amelia Earhart, the world's most famous woman aviator. The glamorous adventurer, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, disappeared along with n...

The David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) is a large astronomical observatory site for the University of Toronto, located just north of the city in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Its primary instrument is a 74 inch (1.88 m) reflector telescope, at one time the second largest telescope in the world, and still the...