Orbital elements:
2015 KW120 Earth MOID = 0.0006 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 350.97400 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.48582830 Peri. 245.15806 +0.68772123 +0.72392023
a 1.6025595 Node 68.40688 -0.64308455 +0.64236088
e 0.4900811 Incl. 3.36519 -0.33687056 +0.25161877
P 2.03 H 26.1...
The 32 - 73 metre wide asteroid 2015 KH will make a close pass (14.3 LD, 0.0369 AU) travelling at 9.80 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th May 2015 @ 13:18 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 14 - 31 metre wide asteroid 2015 KP122 made a close pass (15.5 LD, 0.0399 AU) travelling at 10.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th May 2015 @ 19:43 UT ±00:08. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 10 - 23 metre wide asteroid 2015 KO122 made a close pass (2.9 LD, 0.0075 AU) travelling at 14.73 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th May 2015 @ 15:22 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Discovery Harkens to Early Solar System Using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, astronomers have discovered a young, emerging planetary system that shares remarkable similarities to our own Solar System in its infancy. GPI images reveal the disk as a bright ri...
Title: Giant planets around two intermediate-mass evolved stars and confirmation of the planetary nature of HIP67851 c Author: M. I. Jones, J. S. Jenkins, P. Rojo, C. H. F. melo Precision radial velocities are required to discover and characterise planets orbiting nearby stars. Optical and near...
A giant surrealistic tower, erratically skewed, points at the sky on top of a 960-meter hill 170 kilometres northeast of Beijing. The white structure, with a wide dome at its lower end, looks more like a missile silo. Chinese scientists have built the world's most powerful optical telescope in a res...
Title: MOA-2007-BLG-197: Exploring the brown dwarf desert Author: C. Ranc (1 and 35), A. Cassan (1 and 35), M. D. Albrow (2 and 35), D. Kubas (1 and 35), I. A. Bond (3 and 36), V. Batista (1 and 35), J.-P. Beaulieu (1 and 35), D. P. Bennett (4 and 36), M. Dominik (5 and 35), Subo Dong (6 and 37), P. Fouqué (7 and...
Astronomers have reported the first detection of direct radiation from the surface of a white dwarf star in a pre-supernova binary star system using the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a major step forward in identifying the type of star that will become a Type Ia supernova, the type of supernova tha...
Title: KELT-8b: A highly inflated transiting hot Jupiter and a new technique for extracting high-precision radial velocities from noisy spectra Author: Benjamin J. Fulton, Karen A. Collins, B. Scott Gaudi, Keivan G. Stassun, Joshua Pepper, Thomas G. Beatty, Robert J. Siverd, Kaloyan Penev, An...
Orbital elements:
2015 KJ122 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0317 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 243.71547 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.41693333 Peri. 229.42842 +0.53471873 -0.84493305
a 0.7850605 Node 188.27614 +0.79969994 +0.51087385
e 0.7529077 Incl. 5.10462 +0.27304923 +0.15841733
P 0.70...
Mice in space develop thin skin A study of three mice that spent 91 days on the International Space Station has found abnormalities in their skin. This is a record stay for any animal in space; due to their short lifespan it equates to about seven "mouse years". Read more
Many open access publishers such as PLoS, BioMed Central and Hindawi charge a publication fee to authors to recover the costs associated with publishing their journals. And more and more traditional publishers are now offering authors the option of open access upon payment of a publication fee. A...
Orbital elements:
2008 SJ82 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0459 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 305.64109 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.26905686 Peri. 218.23309 +0.98742628 +0.10447187
a 2.3763295 Node 135.31383 -0.06737134 +0.95703767
e 0.5787129 Incl. 9.71260 -0.14300507 +0.27048942
P 3.66 H...
