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David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 - 17 May 1870) was a Scottish painter and arts activist. Read more

Opal citizen science project expands across the UK Open Air Laboratories (Opal), with a grant from the Big Lottery Fund, is now being rolled out across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Read more

Proton failure to delay Inmarsat Global Xpress roll-out The completion of the UK's biggest commercial space project is facing several months of delay. Inmarsat of London has confirmed that the roll-out of its new Global Xpress satellite network is on hold while Russia probes the latest failure of...

Title: PZ Mon is a new RS CVn synchronous binary giant with low mass ratio Author: Y. V. Pakhomov, N. A. Gorynya Analysis of new radial velocity measurements of the active giant PZ Mon is presented. We estimated the radial velocity of center of mass 25.5±0.3 km s-1, the period on the circular orbit P=34...

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Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49219529/pavlograd-meteorite/

38628 Huya is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). It is a plutino, being in a 2:3 mean motion resonance with Neptune. It has a diameter of 458.0±9.2 km Read more

The 47 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 HB117 will make a close pass (31.2 LD, 0.0803 AU) travelling at 4.13 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th May 2015 @ 00:59 UT ±00:04. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 81 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2015 JP1 will make a close pass (37.3 LD, 0.0959 AU) travelling at 26.90 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th May 2015 @ 04:56 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 57 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2015 JO1 will make a close pass (25.8 LD, 0.0662 AU) travelling at 22.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th May 2015 @ 21:26 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

52P/HarringtonAbell is a periodic comet in our solar system. It was discovered by Robert G. Harrington and George O. Abell in 1955 on plates from the Palomar Sky Survey taken with the 49-inch Samuel Oschin telescope Read more EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 12 01 04 2...

Y Aquilae (18 Aquilae, HD 178125) (top of image) is a magnitude +5.0 ellipsoidal eclipsing binary star in the constellation Aquila. Right ascension 19h 06m 58.60289s, Declination +11° 04' 16.4173"

Orbital elements: 2015 JF Earth MOID = 0.0101 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 6.68611 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43879801 Peri. 41.63775 -0.06507012 +0.99763012 a 1.7151138 Node 224.64494 -0.92374218 -0.06869659 e 0.4232088 Incl. 1.82353 -0.37744703 -0.00386271 P 2.25 H 26.1 G 0.15...

The 77 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2002 JD9 will make a close pass (49.7 LD, 0.1278 AU) travelling at 10.86 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th May 2015 @ 20:23 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: 2015 JG2 Earth MOID = 0.0058 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 80.88991 (2000.0) P Q n 0.70817029 Peri. 265.69966 -0.51083342 -0.83162700 a 1.2465535 Node 217.72271 +0.85956127 -0.49830180 e 0.4783753 Incl. 20.85526 -0.01426986 -0.24513638 P 1.39 H 23.3 G...