Students at St Andrews University have helped discover a new planet bigger than Jupiter. PhD students Grant Miller and David Brown used Scotland's largest optical telescope, the 0.9m diameter James Gregory telescope at the campus observatory, to confirm the presence and measure the diameter of...
The Earth Observation Research Centre (EORC) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has started to release image data of a high-resolution global precipitation distribution map in quasi real time (about four hours after observations) on the Internet. The map is composed by the EOR...
Black hole winds pull the plug on star formation Combining infrared observations from ESA's Herschel space observatory with new data from the Japanese/US Suzaku X-ray satellite, the astronomers detected the winds close to the central black hole as well as their global effect in pushing galactic...
Title: The mid-Ludfordian Lau Event and Carbon Isotope Excursion (Ludlow, Silurian) in southern Laurentia Preliminary Results Author: James E. BARRICK, Mark A. KLEFFNER, Michael A. GIBSON, F. Nicole PEAVEY & Haraldur R. KARLSSON The mid-Ludfordian Lau Event can be recognised in three are...
Orbital elements:
2014 NG65 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0158 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 146.81533 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.61924858 Peri. 305.18424 +0.72761112 -0.67071680
a 1.3631994 Node 97.40743 +0.66709138 +0.64289723
e 0.3855074 Incl. 8.34651 +0.15990982 +0.36989476
P 1.59 H 2...
Title: MIDAS: Software for the detection and analysis of lunar impact flashes Author: José M. Madiedo, José L. Ortiz, Nicolás Morales, Jesús Cabrera-Caño Since 2009 we are running a project to identify flashes produced by the impact of meteoroids on the surface of the Moon. For this purpose we are e...
The four spacecraft of ESA`s Cluster fleet have reached their greatest distance from each other in the course of their mission to study Earth`s magnetosphere in three dimensions.
This operation, marking the fifth anniversary of Cluster in space, transforms Cluster in the first `...
Orbital elements:
2015 FC Earth MOID = 0.0052 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 36.45717 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.64469259 Peri. 224.38039 -0.67848246 +0.73458947
a 1.3270917 Node 2.91589 -0.63475092 -0.58190030
e 0.2907077 Incl. 7.12867 -0.36980105 -0.34895608
P 1.53 H 26.7 G 0.15...
The 18 - 40 metre wide asteroid 2015 FX33 will make a close pass (13.8 LD, 0.0354 AU) travelling at 5.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th March 2015 @ 18:47 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 29 - 65 metre wide asteroid 2015 FP33 will make a close pass (18.9 LD, 0.0485 AU) travelling at 27.63 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th March 2015 @ 06:12 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 37 - 83 metre wide asteroid 2015 FP35 made a close pass (11.3 LD, 0.0290 AU) travelling at 13.64 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd March 2015 @ 15:28 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).