Comet 70P/Kojima is at Opposition (2.347 AU) on the 8th October, 2013. The comet was discovered by the Japanese astronomer Nobuhisa Kojima at Ishiki, Japan on the 27th December 1970.
Orbital elements:
2012 RJ15 Earth MOID = 0.0872 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 235.84820 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.97475975 Peri. 320.56474 -0.72951083 -0.68332538
a 1.0074055 Node 175.93541 +0.68393638 -0.72921442
e 0.1239864 Incl. 24.74658 +0.00670701 +0.03623187
P 1.01 H 23...
On 2015 March 18th, asteroid (847) Agnia will occult a 5.1 mag star HD 82395 in the constellation Leo for observers along a path across Argentina, Chile. Read more
Title: Svestka's Research: Then and Now Author: Hugh S. Hudson Zdenek Svestka's research work influenced many fields of solar physics, especially in the area of flare research. In this article I take five of the areas that particularly interested him and assess them in a "then and now" s...
New lunar crater named after aviation pioneer Earhart Scientists have discovered a large crater on the Earth-facing side of the Moon - the first detection of its kind in at least a century. The previously unknown structure has been named after aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart - the first woman to fl...
Comet C/2015 D3 (PANSTARRS) is at Opposition (7.568 AU) on the 12th March 2015Orbital elements:
C/2015 D3 (PANSTARRS)
T 2016 June 10.14161 TT MPCW
q 8.0356646 (2000.0) P Q
Peri. 5.62450 -0.89315544 +0.33013509
Node 157.10384 +0.37594824 +0.17529711
e 1.0 Incl. 128.27678 +0.24685275 +0....
The Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat produced a faint but steady plume of ash on September 4-5, 2005.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard the Aqua satellite took this picture on September 5th 2005.
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Orbital elements:
2015 EZ6 Earth MOID = 0.0051 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 72.13223 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.71458477 Peri. 6.35715 -0.99893403 -0.04537643
a 1.2390825 Node 171.02895 +0.03959725 -0.93667677
e 0.1944288 Incl. 3.11462 +0.02372472 -0.34724285
P 1.38 H 28.6 G 0.1...
Title: NGC 4254: An Act of Harassment Uncovered by the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey Authors: Martha P. Haynes, Riccardo Giovanelli, Brian R. Kent We present an HI map constructed from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey of the surroundings of the strongly asymmetric Virgo cluster Sc g...
Meteor photographed from Loch Ness A meteor that is believed to have been the cause of phone calls to the Coastguard was photographed from the shores of Loch Ness. Tourist guide John Alasdair Macdonald captured his image on a compact camera near Dochfour at about 21:00 on Sunday. Read more
Double the brightness in low light photos with Panasonic's new colour filtering technology Panasonic has developed a unique technology that doubles the brightness of colour photography, by using micro color splitters instead of conventional colour filters in the image sensor. These two pho...
Title: HAT-P-50b, HAT-P-51b, HAT-P-52b, and HAT-P-53b: Three Transiting Hot Jupiters and a Transiting Hot Saturn From the HATNet Survey Author: Joel D. Hartman (Princeton), Waqas Bhatti (Princeton), Gáspár A. Bakos (Princeton), Allyson Bieryla (CfA), Géza Kovács (Konkoly), David W. Latham...
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