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The 51 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2014 SP260 will make a close pass (62.7 lunar distances, 0.1612 AU) travelling at 5.45 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th October 2014 @ 04:21 UT ±00:06. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

Title: Asteroid (47171) 1999 TC36, A Transneptunian Triple Authors: S. D. Benecchi, K. S. Noll, W. M. Grundy, H. F. Levison We present new analysis of HST images of (47171) 1999 TC36 that confirm it as a triple system. Fits to the point-spread function consistently show that the apparent primary is i...

On August 30, 1992, David Jewitt and Jane Luu of the University of Hawaii announced the "Discovery of the candidate Kuiper belt object" (15760) 1992 QB1. (15760) 1992 QB1 was the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon. It was discovered 1992 by David C. Jewi...

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45765738/rasgrad-meteorite/

NGC 785 (also IC 1766, MCG 5-5-46, UGC 1509 and PGC 7694) is a magnitude +13.0 elliptical galaxy located 229 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Observato...

NGC 7785 (also MCG 1-60-49, UGC 12841 and PGC 72867) is a magnitude +11.6 elliptical galaxy located 175 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Clayhall F...

Orbital elements: 2010 CN44 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0242 AU Epoch 2010 Feb. 13.0 TT = JDT 2455240.5 MPC M 356.87824 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25330051 Peri. 302.41973 -0.68352915 -0.72982077 a 2.4738803 Node 190.72696 +0.68981649 -0.64040398 e 0.6267804 Incl. 3.76707 +0.23862336 -0.23925799 P 3.89 H 19.3 G 0....

Photo mosaic of Sunspot 12192. Captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam.

The sun erupted with another significant flare today, peaking at 10:28 a.m. EDT on Oct. 22, 2014. NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event, which occurred in the lower half of the sun. This flare is classified as an X1.6 class flare. X-class flares denote the most extreme flares...

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Orbital elements: 2003 XM PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0487 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 321.51724 (2000.0) P Q n 0.17230668 Peri. 156.07081 -0.87967717 -0.47550964 a 3.1984138 Node 355.51427 +0.41900472 -0.76732647 e 0.6790118 Incl. 5.61959 +0.22495136 -0.43023328 P 5.72 H 19....

Title: TTVs analysis in Southern Stars: the case of WASP-28 Author: Romina Petrucci, Emiliano Jofré, Mario Melita, Mercedes Gómez, Pablo Mauas We present 4 new transit observations of the exoplanet WASP-28b observed between August 2011 and October 2013. Employing another 11 transits availabl...

Experts have clashed over the existence of Great White Sharks off the UK coast. Speculation is mounting amid a series of claimed sightings by holidaymakers and fishermen and a new documentary on BBC One on Sunday. Marine biologist Douglas Herdson, from the National Marine Aquarium in Plymo...

Orbital elements: 2014 SC324 Earth MOID = 0.0006 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 5.04528 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33408122 Peri. 224.40447 +0.29763420 -0.95456506 a 2.0570018 Node 208.28969 +0.88437142 +0.28152566 e 0.5640049 Incl. 1.79112 +0.35958459 +0.09771822 P 2.95 H 24.1 G 0...

The 80 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2014 SX141 will make a close pass (73.4 lunar distances, 0.1887 AU) travelling at 4.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th October 2014 @ 18:32 UT ±00:55. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...