A dust devil spins across the surface of Gusev Crater just before noon on Mars. NASA's Spirit rover took the series of images in this spectacular 21-frame animation with its navigation camera on the rover's Martian day, or sol, 486 (March 15, 2005).
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Newfound asteroid 2013 RZ53 to whizz between Earth and Moon this week Discovered just two days ago, a small asteroid will be whizzing past the Earth on Wednesday night, coming within two-thirds of the distance to the Moon. Asteroid 2013 RZ53 was found early Friday morning by astronomers working at t...
Orbital elements: 2009 AM15 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0461 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 97.60701 (2000.0) P Q n 1.34305631 Peri. 132.49752 +0.47675277 +0.86882293 a 0.8135918 Node 164.29394 -0.87889876 +0.46843876 e 0.4845758 Incl. 29.57710 +0.01561277 -0.16034916 P 0.73 H 18.6 G 0....
The 46 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2015 CG1 will make a close pass (32.9 LD, 0.0846 AU) travelling at 17.68 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th February 2015 @ 21:35 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: 1FGL J1417.7-4407: A gamma-ray bright binary with a massive neutron star and a giant secondary Author: Jay Strader (Michigan St.), Laura Chomiuk (Michigan St.), C. C. Cheung (NRL), David J. Sand (Texas Tech), Davide Donato (CRESST/Maryland), Robin Corbet (CRESST), Dana Koeppe (Michiga...
Title: The p-Geminid meteoroid stream: orbits, spectroscopic data and implications for its parent body Author: Jose M. Madiedo By using an array of high-sensitivity CCD video devices and spectrographs, the activity of meteor events from the poorly-known p-Geminid meteoroid stream has been mo...
Title: Asteroid Photometry Author: Jian-Yang Li, Paul Helfenstein, Bonnie J. Buratti, Driss Takir, Beth Ellen Clark Asteroid photometry has three major applications: providing clues about asteroid surface physical properties and compositions, facilitating photometric corrections, and...
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have photographed the close companion to Polaris, known also as the North Star, for the first time.
"Hubble's exceptional pointing capabilities combined with the wonderful performance of its instruments allow scientists to see the...
Kew Gardens unveils science strategy Kew Gardens has announced a new science strategy, outlining where it will focus its research in the coming years. Plans include digitising its extensive plant and fungi collections, an annual health check of the world's flora, and hosting an MSc course in taxo...
Donald C. Parker, also known as Don Parker (January 28, 1939 - February 22, 2015), was an American retired physician and amateur astronomer, specialising in the research of the Solar System and planetary photography. Read more
IN May of this year, Wayne Rosing was named the first senior fellow in mathematical and physical sciences at the University of California.
As part of the position, Rosing will work with Anthony Tyson, a...
NGC 6861 (also IC 4949, IRAS 20037-4830, ESO 233-32 and PGC 64136) is a magnitude +11.1 lenticular galaxy located 130 million light-years away in the constellation Telescopium. The galaxy was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop using a homemade 9-foot 22.86 cm (9 inch) f/12 speculum...
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