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Comet C/2014 B1 (Schwartz) makes its closest approach to the Earth (10.052 AU) on the 19th January 2015. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2015 01 17 07 05 53.7 -02 55 51 10.0522 10.9414 153.5 2.3 19.4 2015 01 18 07 05 39.6 -02 54 23 10.0517 10.9388 153.2 2.3 19.4 2015 01 19 07 0...

ATel 6946: Very Bright OT detected by MASTER

The Effect of Starlight on the Atmospheres of Mini-Neptunes Exoplanet surveys have discovered the first planets with sizes between 2 and 3.5 Earth radii -- slightly smaller than the size of the planet Neptune in our solar system. These planets, dubbed "mini-Neptunes," have been spot...

Orbital elements: 2015 AM45 Earth MOID = 0.0000 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 18.96621 (2000.0) P Q n 0.50991119 Peri. 107.54889 +0.91742646 -0.38595360 a 1.5516950 Node 275.24239 +0.31816782 +0.85762432 e 0.5172294 Incl. 5.57782 +0.23895171 +0.33988283 P 1.93 H 22.2 G 0...

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56303478/cosina-meteorite/

ATel 6940: The Swift Detection of a Large Flare from the RS CVn Binary SZ Psc Position (2000): RA 23 13 23.78598, Dec +02 40 31.5848

Ireland's first farmers settled the island later than some sites from Ulster have long suggested, but did so in a short period which may also have seen parallel migration into western England and Scotland. Radiocarbon dates indicate that sites from Co Kerry in the South West to Co Derry in Northern I...

ATel 6937: Spectroscopic Classification of WISE J061647.01-402142.8 (Fermi J0617-4026) as a Blazar

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47332372/tomakovka-meteorite/

A University of Toronto scientist has found unexpectedly `young` material in meteorites - a discovery that breaks open current theory on the earliest events...

Orbital elements: 2013 BM76 Earth MOID = 0.1347 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 12.58784 (2000.0) P Q n 0.50373761 Peri. 29.51047 +0.96563643 +0.16744586 a 1.5643471 Node 319.27760 -0.25437482 +0.76573307 e 0.8070991 Incl. 17.73845 +0.05328907 +0.62097887 P 1.96 H 20.4 G 0...

by Mike WallTen years ago today (Jan. 14), humanity got its first up-close look at a bizarre, frigid moon that may be capable of supporting life as we know it.The European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens probe touched down on the surface of Saturn's huge moon Titan on Jan. 14, 2005, three weeks after be...

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46489766/jelica-meteorite/

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The 11 - 25 metre wide asteroid 2014 WU202 made a close pass (7.7 lunar distances, 0.0199 AU) travelling at 7.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th November 2014 @ 16:01 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU...