Arianespace to launch Argentine satellite Arsat-1 Following an international call for tenders, Argentine satellite operator ARSAT has chosen Arianespace to launch its Arsat-1 satellite. Arianespace announced today that it has signed the launch Service & Solutions contract with Argent...
Orbital elements:
2014 TR57 Earth MOID = 0.0241 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC
M 25.10025 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.39995979 Peri. 8.45589 +0.97703703 -0.21304500
a 1.8244214 Node 3.84949 +0.19256137 +0.87639625
e 0.4390088 Incl. 2.76146 +0.09120721 +0.43190444
P 2.46 H 25.2 G 0.15 U...
Tuesday 19 October 1954: Fireball Panics Sydney Pandemonium broke out in the Sydney suburb of Belmore yesterday when a fireball shot across three closely settled streets during a severe electrical storm. Bursting directly over homes, it snapped electric wires, strewing them into the street, an...
NGC 206 is a magnitude +14.0 star-forming region located in the constellation Andromeda. NGC 206 is part of the Andromeda Galaxy. The star-forming region was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough on the 17t...
NGC 218 (also IRAS 00438+3603, MCG 6-2-13, UGC 480 and PGC 2720) is a magnitude +12.6 spiral galaxy located 516 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflecting telescope at the Marse...
NGC 683 (also IRAS 01471+1127, MCG 2-5-47, UGC 1288 and PGC 6718) is a magnitude +13.6 spiral galaxy located 240 million light-years away away in the constellation Aries. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 45.72 cm (18 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Roa...
NGC 980 (also MCG 7-6-38, UGC 2063 and PGC 9831) is a magnitude +13.0 lenticular galaxy located 264 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slou...
NGC 982 (also IRAS 02322+4039, MCG 7-6-39, UGC 2066 and PGC 9838) is a magnitude +12.5 spiral galaxy located 264 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Winds...
NGC 1293 (also MCG 7-7-75 and PGC 12597) is a magnitude +13.4 elliptical galaxy located 192 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough on the 1...
NGC 1294 (also IRAS 03184+4111, MCG 7-7-76, UGC 2694 and PGC 12600) is a magnitude +13.2 elliptical galaxy located 303 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at W...
NGC 7024 is a magnitude +12.0 open star cluster located in the constellation Cygnus. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough on the 17th October 1786. Position (J2000): R.A. 21h 06m 04.8s | Dec...
Title: Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 7044 Authors: G. Kopacki, D. Drobek, Z. Kolaczkowski, G. Polubek We present results of a search for variable stars in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 7044. We found 23 variable stars in the observed field. One star turned out to be of the delta Sct ty...
NGC 7664 (also IRAS 23241+2448, MCG 4-55-13, UGC 12598 and PGC 71450) is a magnitude 12.7 spiral galaxy located 159 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflecting telescope at the Mar...
The 25 - 57 metre wide asteroid 2014 TC36 made a close pass (13.4 lunar distances, 0.0344 AU) travelling at 8.88 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th October 2014 @ 18:58 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
