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Comet P/2004 V1 (Skiff) is at Opposition (3.782 AU) on the 1st June, 2013. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 06 01 16 36 37.4 -19 51 31 3.7816 4.7950 177.8 0.5 25.7 2013 06 02 16 35 53.8 -19 48 59 3.7762 4.7896 177.5 0.5 25.7 2013 06 03 16 35 10.1 -19 46 28 3.7712 4.7843 176.8...

NASA Skunkworks Team Set to Deliver Newfangled 6U CubeSat A NASA "skunkworks" team gave itself just one year to develop, test and integrate a newfangled CubeSat that could reliably and easily accommodate agency-class science investigations and technology demonstrations at a lower...

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46275857/cronstad-meteorite/

Possible meteor over Russia

The Divination by Astrological and Meteorological Phenomena, also known as Book of Silk is an ancient astronomy silk manuscript compiled by Chinese astronomers of the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - 9 AD) and found in the Mawangdui tomb of China in 1973. Read more From November 19 to December 13, 1973,...

Asteroid (5790) Nagasaki makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.439 AU) on the 26th June, 2013

Asteroid (2247) Hiroshima makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.574 AU) on the 26th June, 2013

The 19 - 43 metre wide asteroid 2014 UZ56 will make a close pass (26.8 lunar distances, 0.0689 AU) travelling at 5.56 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th November 2014 @ 18:35 UT ±00:06. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...

The 67 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2014 UG57 will make a close pass (56.7 lunar distances, 0.1457 AU) travelling at 6.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th November 2014 @ 13:28 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

Russia may be testing a satellite capable of chasing down other orbiting spacecraft, observers say. Such technology could be used for a wide variety of uses, including to repair malfunctioning spacecraft, but also to destroy or disable them. The Kosmos 2499 satellite separated from and then chas...

The 55 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2014 WN4 made a close pass (21.1 lunar distances, 0.0543 AU) travelling at 9.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th November 2014 @ 11:00 UT ±00:04. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU...

Fireball seen over Australian skies was space debris from Russian rocket The fireball that streaked across the skies of south-eastern Australia on Thursday night was an ejected piece of a Russian rocket used to launch a weather satellite, a leading astronomer says. NASA issued an alert on Thursda...

Title: An Accurate Distance to High-Velocity Cloud Complex C Authors: C. Thom, J.E.G. Peek, M.E. Putman, Carl Heiles, K.M.G. Peek, R. Wilhelm (Version v2) We report an accurate distance of d = 10+/-2.5kpc to the high-velocity cloud Complex C. Using high signal-to-noise Keck/HIRES spectra of two...

Title: A Chandra Observation of the Eclipsing Wolf-Rayet Binary CQ Cep Author: S.L. Skinner, S.A. Zhekov, M. Guedel, W. Schmutz The short-period (1.64 d) near-contact eclipsing WN6+O9 binary system CQ Cep provides an ideal laboratory for testing the predictions of X-ray colliding wind shock th...

Mysterious Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Tracked Deeper into Universe Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centred on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Gr...