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The 300 metre wide asteroid (2340) Hathor will make a close pass (18.8 lunar distances, 0.0482 AU) travelling at 11.91 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st October 2014 @ 21:28 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

China launched the Yaogan-22 remote sensing satellite into scheduled orbit at 2:31 pm on Monday Beijing Time from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre. Read more

Title: The theory of globulettes: candidate precursors of brown dwarfs and free floating planets in H II regions Author: Thomas J. Haworth, Stefano Facchini, Cathie J. Clarke Large numbers of small opaque dust clouds - termed 'globulettes' by Gahm et al - have been observed in the H II regions surro...

A dying star has been caught in the act of resurrecting itself by eating its neighbour. Together, the stars represent a previously unseen stage in the lifecycle of millisecond pulsars, the fastest-spinning objects in the universe. "It's really a missing link in the chain from young pulsar to...

The 8 - 17 metre wide asteroid 2010 VQ will make a close pass (10.6 lunar distances, 0.0271 AU) travelling at 3.98 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st October 2014 @ 19:16 UT ±2 days 16:56. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

The 31 - 68 metre wide asteroid 2007 CX50 will make a close pass (50.3 lunar distances, 0.1293 AU) travelling at 6.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th October 2014 @ 20:51 UT ±17:11. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...

Orbital elements: 2014 SM143 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0054 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 353.88242 (2000.0) P Q n 0.74192771 Peri. 89.48790 -0.43222020 -0.87963170 a 1.2084490 Node 28.86809 +0.57268398 -0.43785457 e 0.4242464 Incl. 24.28729 +0.69657646 -0.18582639 P 1.33 H 1...

The 92 - 210 metre wide asteroid 2014 TG17 will make a close pass (61.1 lunar distances, 0.1569 AU) travelling at 10.29 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th October 2014 @ 08:25 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

The 150 - 340 metre wide asteroid 2014 SM261 will make a close pass (72.7 lunar distances, 0.1868 AU) travelling at 8.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th October 2014 @ 05:15 UT ±00:02. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

The 58 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2014 UT made a close pass (27.9 lunar distances, 0.0718 AU) travelling at 11.60 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th October 2014 @ 23:44 UT ±00:07. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...

Orbital elements: 2014 TN17 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0122 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 0.72357 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30452151 Peri. 105.31710 -0.28869056 -0.95739477 a 2.1880508 Node 1.52123 +0.73901931 -0.22766372 e 0.6905052 Incl. 15.91686 +0.60869386 -0.17766395 P 3.24 H 21.5...

The Coleman (L6) meteorite fell in Michigan, USA, on the 20th October, 1994. A total mass of 469 g was recovered. 43° 45' 40"N, 84° 30' 28"W

Meteorite fallshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45674982/manych-meteorite/

NGC 171 (also NGC 175, ESO 540-6, IRAS 00348-2012, MCG -3-2-24 and PGC 2232) is a magnitude +12.2 barred spiral galaxy located 180 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculu...

NGC 907 (also ESO 545-10, IRAS 02207-2056, MCG -4-6-34, UGCA 28 and PGC 9054) is a magnitude +12.6 barred spiral galaxy located 76 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculu...