The 80 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2000 TH1 will make a close pass (42.5 lunar distances, 0.1092 AU) travelling at 11.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th October 2014 @ 03:35 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
Orbital elements:
2012 HN1 Earth MOID = 0.0098 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 250.01637 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.94432944 Peri. 107.13840 +0.54574165 +0.83786502
a 1.0289328 Node 195.95459 -0.78466412 +0.50588210
e 0.1534975 Incl. 2.53894 -0.29405489 +0.20509878
P 1.04 H 27.0 G...
A Scottish astronomer and scientist James Gregory is thought to have laid the first meridian line, arguably making St Andrews "the place where time began". James Gregory laid the line across his lab in South Street in 1673, nearly 200 years before the Greenwich meridian was established...
The 7 - 16 metre wide asteroid 2014 TL made a close pass (0.3 lunar distances, 0.0007 AU) travelling at 11.13 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st October 2014 @ 15:59 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2014 TB made a close pass (5.8 lunar distances, 0.0149 AU) travelling at 3.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st October 2014 @ 19:39 UT ±00:04. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 15 - 34 metre wide asteroid 2014 TC made a close pass (6.0 lunar distances, 0.0154 AU) travelling at 10.19 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd October 2014 @ 11:23 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
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NASA Releases Images of a Mid-level Solar Flare The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:01 p.m. EDT on Oct. 2, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun 24-hours a day, captured images of the flare. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Read more
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AIDS was first clinically observed between late 1980 and early 1981. In 1983, two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declared that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting AIDS patients, and published their findings in the same issue of the journal Sc...