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Meteorites No historic meteorite falls today

The 56 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2015 BH514 will make a close pass (22.2 lunar distances, 0.0571 AU) travelling at 20.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th February 2015 @ 20:38 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

February 4th - 5th, 2015 The Paris Space Week - B2B meetings, exhibition and conferences - brings together global decision-makers involved in the design, building and testing of spacecraft, satellite, launch vehicles and space-related technologies. Read more

India's ambitious 5,000-km range Agni-V nuclear-capable missile will be launched soon, a senior scientist said here Sunday. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief controller R&D (Missiles and Strategic Systems) Avinash Chander said here that the strategic missile...

Pakistan tests self developed cruise missile Ra'ad Pakistan on Monday conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed air launched cruise missile (ALCM), an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said. The Ra'ad missile, with a range of 350 km, enables Pakistan to ac...

ATel 7020: Chandra position of IGR J17454-2919 and discovery of a possible NIR counterpart

Title: LOSS'S First Supernova: New Limits on the "Impostor" SN 1997bs Author: Scott M. Adams, C.S. Kochanek We present new, late-time Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the archetypal SN impostor SN 1997bs. We show that SN 1997bs remains much fainter t...

Title: Spectropolarimetric Variability and Co-Rotating Structure in HD 92207 Authors: R Ignace, S Hubrig, M Scholler We report on low resolution (R~3000) spectropolarimetry of the A0 supergiant star HD 92207. This star is well-known for significant spectral variability. The source was obser...

The near fullmoon captured with a 8" reflector and Canon EOS 350D camera. Motorised EQ5 Mount. Images processed with PS pro and MS ICE. .Hazy sky. Moderate seeing.

Orbital elements: 2015 BR514 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0444 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 318.03913 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29376746 Peri. 327.61081 -0.62838178 +0.71153227 a 2.2411293 Node 261.40326 -0.62863738 -0.70255225 e 0.5965043 Incl. 18.54140 -0.45820452 -0.01192330 P 3.36...

Title: KOI-3158: The oldest known system of terrestrial-size planets Author: T. L. Campante, T. Barclay, J. J. Swift, D. Huber, V. Zh. Adibekyan, W. Cochran, C. J. Burke, H. Isaacson, E. V. Quintana, G. R. Davies, V. Silva Aguirre, D. Ragozzine, R. Riddle, C. Baranec, S. Basu, W. J. Chaplin, J. Chris...

During the period 10 - 28 February, 2015 one VSB-30 rocket is planned to be launched from Esrange. The launch will take place between 06.00 - 16.00 during this period. Read more

Inmarsat launches second Global Xpress satellite The UK satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat has launched the second of its I5 series of spacecraft. The 7m-long, 6.1-tonne platform went into orbit on a Proton M rocket, , despatched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Read more

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The 52 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2015 BL will make a close pass (45.2 lunar distances, 0.1160 AU) travelling at 6.60 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd February 2015 @ 14:14 UT ±00:09. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...