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).
NGC 4205 (also IRAS 12125+6403, MCG 11-15-38, UGC 7258 and PGC 39143) is a magnitude +13.0 edge-on spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refrac...
NGC 1792 (also ESO 305-6, IRAS 05035-3802, MCG -6-12-4 and PGC 16709) is a magnitude +10.2 spiral galaxy located 56 million light-years away in the constellation Columba. NGC 1792 may be gravitationally interacting with its probably neighbour NGC 1808. The galaxy was discovered by Scottish as...
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
On 10 January 49 BC, leading one legion, the Legio XIII Gemina, General Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River, the boundary between the Cisalpine Gaul province, to the north, and Italy proper, to the south, a legally-proscribed action forbidden to any army-leading general. Read more Crossing...
Title: Recent multi-kiloton impact events: are they truly random? Author: C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos It is customarily assumed that Earth-striking meteoroids are completely random, and that all the impacts must be interpreted as uncorrelated events distributed according to...
Title: 1SWASP J022916.91-395901.4 - a Possible New VY Sculptoris Variable in Eridanus Author: Stefan Huemmerich, Klaus Bernhard, Gregor Srdoc We report the discovery of 1SWASP J022916.91-395901.4 = GSC 07552-00389, a possible new VY Sculptoris variable in Eridanus, which is associated with...
Title: First Results from the DarkSide-50 Dark Matter Experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso Author: P. Agnes, T. Alexander, A. Alton, K. Arisaka, H.O. Back, B. Baldin, K. Biery, G. Bonfini, M. Bossa, A. Brigatti, J. Brodsky, F. Budano, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice, N. Canci, A. Candela, H...
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...
