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Hyades, Venus and the Pleiades

Orbital elements: 2015 GS PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0493 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 56.76534 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43225643 Peri. 20.94156 -0.69674303 -0.69209462 a 1.7323743 Node 113.78806 +0.62535420 -0.71482485 e 0.4784852 Incl. 11.89183 +0.35139902 -0.10015221 P 2.28 H 20....

ATel 7370: ASAS-SN Discovery of A Probable Supernova in NGC 5536

ATel 7339: Optical Spectroscopy of Nova Ophiuchi 2015 (PNV J17291350-1846120)

The event generally known as "The Boat Race" is a rowing race in England between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights each spring on the Thames in London. It takes place generally on the last Saturday of March or the first S...

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48687831/yangchiang-meteo...

The 68 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2010 VZ139 will make a close pass (7.7 lunar distances, 0.0199 AU), travelling at 12.30 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd November, 2010 @ 18:16 UT. See more The Lunar Distan...

The 31 - 68 metre wide asteroid 2005 KA will make a close pass (13.0 LD, 0.0335 AU) travelling at 4.62 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th April 2015 @ 11:41 UT ±16:52. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Orbital elements: 2015 FQ Earth MOID = 0.0032 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 8.90708 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28393910 Peri. 86.71611 +0.15839184 +0.98733470 a 2.2925523 Node 192.40854 -0.92183160 +0.14458123 e 0.7217677 Incl. 2.41827 -0.35374924 +0.06531805 P 3.47 H 22.2 G 0.15...

Orbital elements: P/2011 R2 (PANSTARRS) T 2011 Nov. 19.50946 TT MPC q 2.0165176 (2000.0) P Q n 0.15837895 Peri. 230.12353 +0.95702388 -0.28634175 a 3.3832785 Node 146.44212 +0.28494303 +0.89891325 e 0.4039753 Incl. 4.77083 +0.05396994 +0.33160726 P 6.22 From 43 observations 2011 Se...

SSTL wins role in the Euclid mission SSTL has secured a 300,000 euro contract to undertake radiation testing as part of the European Space Agency's Euclid mission. The 9-month contract provides for radiation testing of the charge-coupled devices (CCDs) onboard the Euclid spacecraft and include...

XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular kind of supernova in a few million years. These supernovae a...

VLT images cometary globule CG4 Like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature, the cometary globule CG4 glows menacingly in this new image from ESOs Very Large Telescope. Although it appears to be big and bright in this picture, this is actually a faint nebula, which makes it very hard for am...

Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission XXVIII. CoRoT-28b, a planet orbiting an evolved star, and CoRoT-29b, a planet showing an asymmetric transit Author: J. Cabrera, Sz. Csizmadia, G. Montagnier, M. Fridlund, M. Ammler-von Eiff, S. Chaintreuil, C. Damiani, M. Deleuil, S. F...

Tropical Cyclone Solo (SW Pacific Ocean) Tropical Cyclone Solo looks like a rooster in visible and infrared imagery taken from NASA's Aqua satellite on April 10. Solo formed in the Coral Sea and is giving several islands something to crow about, because it has triggered watches already in Solomon...