Labelling celestial objects has a complicated past. John Cleese is coming to Australia today. In fact, he's coming to the whole world. However, on the night of the full moon, November 2, he'll be closer to hell. Fortunately, asteroid 9618 Johncleese, discovered in 1993, doesn't ever cross Earth's...
Atlas 5 Rocket Puts MUOS-3 Military Satellite in Orbit An Atlas 5 rocket sent the third in a series of Mobile and User Objective System satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday night. Read more
Title: The Jem-Euso Mission Authors: Yoshiyuki Takahashi, the JEM-EUSO Collaboration JEM-EUSO is a space science mission to explore extreme energies and physics of the Universe. Its instrument will watch the dark-side of the earth and will detect UV photons emitted from the extensive air showe...
The 43 - 97 metre wide asteroid 2015 BD will make a close pass (19.3 lunar distances, 0.0497 AU) travelling at 11.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st January 2015 @ 05:12 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
In an attempt to recover the lost works of Aristotle, Sophocles and Catullus, archaeologists are to restart excavations at the ancient city of Herculaneum in Italy, where a Roman library lies buried beneath 90 ft of lava from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. "It is impossible, absolute...
16P/Brooks, also known as Brooks 2, is a periodic comet discovered by William Robert Brooks on July 7, 1889, but failed to note any motion. He was able to confirm the discovery the next morning, having seen that the comet had moved north. On August 1, 1889, the famous comet hunter Edward Emerson Barnar...
C/2014 C3 (NEOWISE): NEOWISE Spies Its First Comet NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen comet -- its first such discovery since coming out of hibernation late last year. Officially named "C/2014 C3 (NEOWISE)...
NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. on July 9. The spacecraft left NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md., on July 7, where it was built and te...
The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2015 BP will make a close pass (1.8 lunar distances, 0.0047 AU) travelling at 12.68 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th January 2015 @ 04:17 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU...
The 39 - 86 metre wide asteroid 2015 BC will make a close pass (1.6 lunar distances, 0.0042 AU) travelling at 19.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th January 2015 @ 08:13 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
WISE is a NASA-funded scientific research project that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies.
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Orbital elements:
2015 BY3 Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC
M 9.87304 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.57746391 Peri. 93.09062 +0.92417824 -0.37875417
a 1.4281905 Node 289.17023 +0.32638100 +0.85024478
e 0.5533737 Incl. 2.99764 +0.19841882 +0.36555314
P 1.71 H 27.5 G 0.15...
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