NGC 1696 (also ESO 56-SC4) is a magnitude +14.0 open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud located ~160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhau...
NGC 1697 (also ESO 56-SC5) is a magnitude +12.6 open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud located ~160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhau...
NGC 1814 (also ESO 85-SC36) is a magnitude +9.0 open star cluster and emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud located ~160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting t...
NGC 1844 (also ESO 85-SC48) is a magnitude +12.1 open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud located ~160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldha...
NGC 1895 (also ESO 85-EN62) is a magnitude +12.2 emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud located ~160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. The nebula was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhaus...
NGC 7553 (also HCG 93D, PGC 70842 and PGC 70834) is a magnitude +14.4 elliptical galaxy located 238 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by Bindon Stoney using a 182.88 cm (72 inch) reflector at Birr Castle on the 2nd November 1850. Position (J2000): R....
The 61 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2014 SJ142 will make a close pass (46.6 lunar distances, 0.1197 AU) travelling at 9.92 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd November 2014 @ 02:47 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
The 35 - 78 metre wide asteroid 2014 UL191 made a close pass (5.2 lunar distances, 0.0134 AU) travelling at 19.98 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th October 2014 @ 04:49 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU...
The 63 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2014 UP191 will make a close pass (16.3 lunar distances, 0.0419 AU) travelling at 7.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November 2014 @ 18:35 UT ±00:04. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Orbital elements:
2014 UD176 Earth MOID = 0.0003 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC
M 81.66216 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.76225017 Peri. 265.89450 +0.41520084 +0.90689433
a 1.1868733 Node 28.97377 -0.76479123 +0.39068534
e 0.4324792 Incl. 8.52031 -0.49264858 +0.15782157
P 1.29 H 24.8 G 0...
Aircraft designer Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne rocket plane made history in 2004 when it made three flights into space, two of them five days apart, to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize as the first privately financed, privately built spacecraft.
Now Rutan is developing a fleet of SpaceShipTwo spac...
The 13 - 28 metre wide asteroid 2014 UA58 will make a close pass (13.2 lunar distances, 0.0340 AU) travelling at 11.23 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November 2014 @ 21:56 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The 73 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2014 TL17 will make a close pass (19.5 lunar distances, 0.0501 AU) travelling at 8.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November 2014 @ 19:59 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The 38 - 84 metre wide asteroid 2014 UD115 will make a close pass (20.6 lunar distances, 0.0530 AU) travelling at 5.99 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November 2014 @ 11:01 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...