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The 240 - 540 metre wide asteroid 2014 YS43 will make a close pass (66.6 lunar distances, 0.1712 AU) travelling at 22.03 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st February 2015 @ 03:19 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

Orbital elements: P/1998 Y2 (Li) Epoch 2014 Jan. 23.0 TT = JDT 2456680.5 T 2014 Feb. 4.82821 TT MPC q 2.5223583 (2000.0) P Q n 0.06508398 Peri. 319.05802 +0.57208620 -0.70908315 a 6.1209662 Node 91.86356 +0.81799066 +0.45644870 e 0.5879150 Incl. 24.35756 +0.06007207 +0.53745295 P 15.1...

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The Great Meteor of 1894 occurred on February 1st. It was first sighted crossing the California coast near Napa, then over Sacramento and reported at multiple locations until it "exploded" over the town of Candelaria in Nevada. Read more Quinn Canyon meteorite In 1894, southern Nevad...

Goulds Comet Title: The comets of 1880 Journal:http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DFgMAaU3vA8C&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false

Orbital elements: 2015 BP513 Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 351.87550 (2000.0) P Q n 0.41289008 Peri. 335.42410 -0.02796257 -0.99955504 a 1.7861301 Node 116.17682 +0.91902685 -0.02979317 e 0.4683121 Incl. 0.66296 +0.39320191 -0.00144813 P 2.39 H 26.7...

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Comet 181P/Shoemaker-Levy is at Opposition (2.918 AU) on the 15th May, 2013. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 05 13 15 23 38.1 -25 32 04 2.9319 3.9362 172.7 1.9 19.8 2013 05 14 15 22 39.5 -25 31 00 2.9251 3.9302 173.0 1.8 19.8 2013 05 15 15 21 40.6 -25 29 52 2.9185 3.9241 1...

Comet P/2013 N5 (PANSTARRS) makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.404 AU) on the 26th October, 2013. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 10 25 04 59 48.9 -05 19 07 1.4038 2.1930 131.5 19.9 21.1 2013 10 26 04 59 37.8 -05 34 15 1.4037 2.1986 132.2 19.6 21.2 2013 10 27 04 59 2...

Comet C/2013 W2 (PANSTARRS) is at Opposition (3.944 AU) on the 12th December 2013 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 12 11 05 18 33.5 +17 32 18 3.9460 4.9268 174.3 1.1 19.9 2013 12 12 05 18 03.6 +17 31 38 3.9437 4.9246 174.5 1.1 19.9 2013 12 13 05 17 33.6 +17 30 59 3.9417 4.9224...

Images captured with a 100mm f5 refractor and vesta pro webcam. motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter. The eastern limb The western limb Two panel Photomosaic Prime focus. Clear sky, steady seeing. Sun was only ~30 degrees above horizon.

Orbital elements: 2013 BO73 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0153 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 183.83100 (2000.0) P Q n 0.64326550 Peri. 297.83136 +0.79575318 +0.60470857 a 1.3290537 Node 25.00470 -0.52431640 +0.71534836 e 0.4089032 Incl. 4.50934 -0.30309930 +0.35014892 P 1.53 H 2...

Balloonists surpass world distance record Two pilots have surpassed the world distance record for a flight in a helium balloon after crossing the Pacific Ocean. American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev also hope to set a new duration record. Read more

Chemistry in a trillionth of a second Chemists at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with colleagues at the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and Heriot-Watt University (HWU), can now follow chemical reactions in liquids with unprecedented, atomical...

Title: SDSS J013127.34-032100.1: a candidate blazar with a 11 billion solar mass black hole at z=5.18 Author: G. Ghisellini (1), G. Tagliaferri (1), T. Sbarrato (1,2), N. Gehrels (3) ((1) INAF -- Brera Obs., (2) Univ. Milano-Bicocca (3) Goddard) The radio-loud quasar SDSS J013127.34-032100.1 a...