* Astronomy

Asteroid (92) Undina is a large main belt asteroid. It has an unusually high albedo and an M-type spectrum. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on July 7, 1867. It is named for the eponymous heroine of Undine, a popular novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Undina is a member of the Veritas asteroid fa...

Asteroid (141) Lumen is at Opposition on the 17th August, 2012 Magnitude: 10.8 Distance to Earth: 1.239 AU Distance to Sun center: 2.251 AUDate__(UT)__HR:MN R.A._(ICRF/J2000.0)_DEC APmag 2012-Aug-17 00:00 21 44 39.24 -11 09 53.6 10.59 2012-Aug-18 00:00 21 43 35.73 -11 07 56.1 10.59 2012-Au...

The 800 meter wide asteroid 2017 SJ33 in the constellation Cancer reaches magnitude +14.5 at 15:30 UT, 17th December 2017. Distance to Earth: 0.072 AU (27.9 lunar distances) Distance to Sun: 1.040 AU

Maximum of the variable star RS Herculis Date: 6th May, 2011 Magnitude range: 7.0 - 13.0 Period: 219.7days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 17 21 42.3568, Dec +22 55 16.031

3200 Phaethon is an Apollo and Mercury-, Venus-, Earth- and Mars-crosser asteroid with unusual properties, and may be an extinct comet. Read more On December 10th the 3.3 km - 7.4 km wide asteroid will pass 47.0 Lunar distances fr...

The Geminid meteor shower officially begins on December 6th, but it doesn't peak until the morning of the 14th at 02:24 UT. The best viewing time this year is on Tuesday morning, December 13; the last couple of hours before morning twilight, when the Moon will be near or below the horizon. The Gemini...

It's a 2ound rock, coloured grey and brown, the kind you might stumble across on a hike through an old New England quarry. But there's a lot of historical significance to the chunk of stone, which was plucked from an Easton field in this rural town and placed on permanent display at the Peabody Museum of...

Asteroid (59) Elpis is at Opposition on the 30th September, 2012. Magnitude: 10.8 Distance to Earth: 1.402 Distance to Sun center: 2.401 AU Finder chart for asteroid (59) Elpis.

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December 12, 1872 - a meteorite hits a wall close to the market town of Banbury in England.

Title: Was Comet C/1945 X1 (du Toit) a Tiny, SOHO-Like Kreutz Sungrazer? Author: Zdenek Sekanina, Rainer Kracht The goal of this investigation is to reinterpret and upgrade the astrometric and other data on comet C/1945 X1, the least prominent among the Kreutz system sungrazers discovered from t...

Astronomers have found a `complex structure` around coma of Centaur 60558 (it was first reported by Choi and Weissman in late 2005, and originally classified as a Centaur) . The object is now known as comet 174P/Echeclus. It was imaged using the 1.8 meter Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope on...

On 2017 Dec 10 06:51 UT, the 10 km diameter asteroid (4525) Johnbauer will occult the 6.1 mag star HD 19789 in the constellation Aries. Read more

Maxima of long period variable U Ceti on the 21st March, 2010 Magnitude: 7.5-12.6 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 02 33 43.6732, Dec -13 08 54.455

R Leporis (R Lep), sometimes called Hind's Crimson Star, is a well-known variable star in the constellation Lepus, near its border with Eridanus. It is a carbon star which appears distinctly red. It is named after famous British astronomer J. R. Hind, who observed it in 1845. Its apparent magnitud...