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The eastern limb with tiny sunspots captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Sunspot 12335

Comet C/2014 Q3 (Borisov) makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.148 AU) on the 3rd November 2014 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 11 01 09 09 44.4 +78 27 57 1.1493 1.6640 101.7 35.7 15.0 2014 11 02 09 28 18.7 +79 34 55 1.1481 1.6622 101.6 35.8 15.0 2014 11 03 09 50 52.5 +...

Orbital elements: 2012 KN11 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0207 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 3.34626 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32093952 Peri. 238.00257 -0.75335779 -0.65082735 a 2.1127782 Node 261.21320 +0.63092830 -0.67493933 e 0.6582980 Incl. 5.47034 +0.18542255 -0.34767897 P 3.07 H 21...

Orbital elements: 2015 HQ171 Earth MOID = 0.0030 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 358.49079 (2000.0) P Q n 0.77630212 Peri. 250.95155 +0.38421754 +0.91709980 a 1.1725072 Node 42.14185 -0.77625433 +0.38324245 e 0.2662604 Incl. 9.11775 -0.49980606 +0.10978701 P 1.27 H 27.0...

The 37 - 84 metre wide asteroid 2015 HL171 will make a close pass (8.8 LD, 0.0227 AU) travelling at 15.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd May 2015 @ 05:56 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Title: On the Orbit of Visual Binary ADS 8119 AB ( = 11h18m10s.9 and =+31o31'44".9) Authors: S.Siregar, D.Hadi Nugroho Xi UrsaMajoris (xi Uma) historically is one of the most important double star in constellation Ursa Major, found by Sir William Herschel on May, 2, 1780 and the first binary s...

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Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have ended a nine-year debate over whether the Earth's inner core is undergoing changes that can be detected on a human timescale. Their work, which appears in the August...

Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10, 1900 - December 7, 1979) was a British-American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium. Read more

Solar Storm Forecast 04-30-2015 Spoiler

Solar Storm Forecast 04-30-2015 Spoiler

Lyme Regis Fossil Festival weekend 4-6 May, 2012

Comet P/2015 C1 (TOTAS-Gibbs) is at Opposition (1.962 AU) in the constellation Leo on the 20th February 2015. EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2015 02 19 000000 10 19 40.0 +17 43 35 1.960 2.944 173.2 2.3 18.7 2015 02 20 000000 10 18 56.2 +17 42 28 1.959 2.943 173.2 2.3 18.6 2015 02 2...

The 35 - 78 metre wide asteroid 2015 FT33 will make a close pass (32.7 LD, 0.0840 AU) travelling at 5.54 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st May 2015 @ 06:49 UT ±00:07. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 9 - 20 metre wide asteroid 2015 HS11 will make a close pass (7.1 LD, 0.0183 AU) travelling at 3.90 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st May 2015 @ 11:03 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).