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The 33 - 73 metre wide asteroid 2014 UF192 will make a close pass (23.7 lunar distances, 0.0609 AU) travelling at 11.93 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th November 2014 @ 03:46 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

The 260 - 580 metre wide asteroid (138852) 2000 WN10 will make a close pass (54.3 Lunar Distances, 0.1397 AU), travelling at 12.89 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th November, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the...

Orbital elements: 2012 VS76 Earth MOID = 0.0019 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 243.92350 (2000.0) P Q n 1.00434772 Peri. 284.37994 -0.97547974 -0.21977344 a 0.9875217 Node 242.92547 +0.20668538 -0.89635306 e 0.3869827 Incl. 0.75844 +0.07563360 -0.38503353 P 0.98 H 27....

Orbital elements: 2014 HW Earth MOID = 0.0044 AU Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC M 332.54740 (2000.0) P Q n 0.87886860 Peri. 243.61826 +0.13830658 +0.98940651 a 1.0794108 Node 34.42097 -0.87858793 +0.14313031 e 0.1148899 Incl. 4.47595 -0.45711545 +0.02425835 P 1.12 H 28.4 G 0.1...

Joan Elisabeth Lowther Clarke MBE (1917-1996) was an English cryptanalyst who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. Read more

Title: Interstellar H2 toward HD 37903 Authors: Piotr Gnacinski (Version v3) We present an analysis of interstellar H2 toward HD 37903, which is a hot, B 1.5 V star located in the NGC 2023 reflection nebula. Meyer et al. (2001) have used a rich spectrum of vibrationally excited H2 observed by the HST t...

Orphan Stars Found in Long Galaxy Tail Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSU/M.Sun et al; H-alpha/Optical: SOAR (MSU/NOAO/UNC/CNPq-Brazil)/M.Sun et al. JPEG (273 kb) Tiff (4.8 MB) PS (6.6 MB) This composite image of X-ray and optical light shows a tail that has been created as a galaxy plunges into a clu...

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ATel 6676: ASAS-SN Discovery of a Very Bright Optical Transient Mag = 11.3V

Sunspot 12205 (top left) in ultraviolet (390nm) captured with a 114mm reflector and vesta pro webcam.

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The 84 - 190 metre wide asteroid 2014 UQ114 will make a close pass (30.8 lunar distances, 0.0791 AU) travelling at 23.89 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th November 2014 @ 16:51 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....

Meteorites No historical meteorte falls today

(130) Elektra is a very large outer main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on February 17, 1873, and named after Electra, an avenger in Greek mythology. Its spectrum is of the G type, hence it probably has a Ceres-like composition. Spectral signatures of organic compounds have been...

The 22 - 49 metre wide asteroid 2014 UV57 will make a close pass (18.0 lunar distances, 0.0463 AU) travelling at 7.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November 2014 @ 22:22 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...