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The 73 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2014 QJ362 will make a close pass (32.5 lunar distances, 0.0834 AU) travelling at 8.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th January 2015 @ 03:34 UT ±1 day 06:18. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...

International Year of Light celebrates impacts on scientific research The United Nations' International Year of Light was launched in the City of Light (Paris, France) on Monday, and National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France Córdova was there to illuminate NSF's role in embracing the m...

Meteorite mineral named after beer is time capsule Nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere has been traced back to the spinning disc of dust and gas that formed our solar system, and may even have yielded ammonia to fuel organic reactions. This all comes courtesy of a meteorite found in Antarctica named afte...

The Cape York meteorite, which collided with Earth nearly 10,000 years ago, is named for Cape York, the location of its discovery in Greenland, and is one of the largest iron meteorites in the world. The iron masses were known to Inuit as Ahnighito (the Tent), weighing 31 metric tons; the Woman, weigh...

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These new images from the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express show Nili Fossae, one of the most enticing regions on Mars. This 'graben system' lies northeast of the volcanic region of Syrtis Major on the northwestern edge of the large Isidis impact basin - and intriguing hints of met...

Title: The Curious Case of ASAS J174600-2321.3: an Eclipsing Symbiotic Nova in Outburst? Authors: Stefan Huemmerich, Sebastian Otero, Patrick Tisserand, Klaus Bernhard The star ASAS J174600-2321.3 was found to exhibit peculiar photometric variability (conspicuous brightening of about...

Astronomers Discover First Multiple-Planet System From K2 Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft's reborn K2 mission may have made its first discovery of a star with three exoplanets - planets that orbit stars other than our sun. A paper reporting this discovery has been submitte...

Orbital elements: 2012 XL16 Earth MOID = 0.0185 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 28.21005 (2000.0) P Q n 1.00574128 Peri. 58.43874 +0.74854210 +0.66097113 a 0.9866093 Node 260.13039 -0.62512945 +0.67681911 e 0.1787490 Incl. 3.07987 -0.22112867 +0.32408804 P 0.98 H 25.6 G...

Orbital elements: 2011 EU29 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0023 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 9.69111 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27010639 Peri. 250.64758 +0.36879434 -0.92950936 a 2.3701699 Node 177.70890 +0.86844311 +0.34389103 e 0.6827362 Incl. 2.51691 +0.33135676 +0.13323401 P 3.65 H 19.9 G 0.15 U...

The 46 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2014 ST143 will make a close pass (53.3 lunar distances, 0.1369 AU) travelling at 6.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd January 2015 @ 21:19 UT ±2 days 06:04. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...

Orbital elements: 2012 VA26 Earth MOID = 0.0130 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 323.72553 (2000.0) P Q n 0.48041107 Peri. 47.93981 -0.02397656 -0.99241489 a 1.6145843 Node 43.88375 +0.85816540 -0.08229843 e 0.4356660 Incl. 10.01682 +0.51281310 +0.09132172 P 2.05 H 26.6...

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Orbital elements: P/1996 A1 = 2012 R2 (Jedicke) Epoch 2014 Oct. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456960.5 T 2014 Nov. 14.61087 TT MPC q 4.0793199 (2000.0) P Q n 0.04971064 Peri. 223.36989 -0.37175851 -0.92212684 a 7.3254870 Node 248.71637 +0.88004591 -0.31333426 e 0.4431333 Incl. 6.60224 +0.29549078 -0.2...

Comet C/2014 J1 (Catalina) is at Perihelion (1.714 AU) on the 18th June 2014