Orbital elements: 2010 GX62 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0118 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 27.61174 (2000.0) P Q n 0.19479736 Peri. 316.10046 -0.93856048 -0.29885452 a 2.9472298 Node 207.93121 +0.31448789 -0.94659505 e 0.7034160 Incl. 21.62167 -0.14213230 -0.12101148 P 5.06 H 20.4 G 0....
Mercury Crater-naming Contest Winners Announced The MESSENGER Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Team, coordinated through the Carnegie Institution for Science, has announced the winners from its competition to name five impact craters on Mercury after artist's. Entries had to be submitte...
South Africa is bidding to host the world's biggest radio-telescope, which will allow astronomers to see back in time to soon after the 'Big Bang' explosion that created the universe. This is the Square Kilometre Array - a R8.5 billion project that could be sited in the Great Karoo near Carna...
Paleontologists sift Utah soil for plant fossils Paleontologists are sifting through the soil of an excavated lot in search of ancient plants, the only ones from the early Jurassic period found so far in western North America. The flora fossils date back 198 million years. "Every plant the...
Scientists studying hydrothermal vents, those underwater geysers that are home to bizarre geological structures and unique marine species, have discovered something all too familiar: pollution.
A University of Florida geologist is among a team of geologists that is the first to observe “...
The 47 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2015 HF170 made a close pass (67.1 LD, 0.1723 AU) travelling at 6.10 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th April 2015 @ 14:46 UT ±00:58. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
NGC 4103 (also ESO 130-SC5 and OCL 871) is a magnitude +7.4 open star cluster located 5,300 light-years away in the constellation Crux. The cluster was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop using a homemade 9-foot, 22.86 cm (9 inch) f/12 speculum Newtonian reflector at Paramatta, New Sou...
NGC 4600 (also MCG 1-32-128, UGC 7832 and PGC 42447) is a magnitude +12.7 spiral galaxy located 39 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slo...
NGC 5246 (also IRAS 13349+0421, MCG 1-35-17, UGC 8612 and PGC 48128) is a magnitude +13.9 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 319 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at Wil...
NGC 5245 (also PGC 48110) is a magnitude +14.2 spiral galaxy located 315 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point observatory in Sliema, Malta,...
NGC 5231 (also IRAS 13332+0315, MCG 1-35-11, UGC 8574 and PGC 47953) is a magnitude +13.4 barred spiral galaxy located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Las...
NGC 5213 (also IRAS 13321+0423, MCG 1-35-8, UGC 8552 and PGC 47235) is a magnitude +14.0 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 316 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at Will...
NGC 5159 (also MCG 1-34-22, UGC 8460 and PGC 47235) is a magnitude +14.3 spiral galaxy located 289 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point obser...
NGC 5148 (also MCG 1-34-21 and PGC 47060) is a magnitude +14.2 face-on spiral galaxy located 309 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point observ...