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Asteroid (511) Davida at opposition on the 2nd May, 2010. Distance to Sun=3.522 AU Distance to Earth=2.560 AU Magnitude=11.4 mag

Asteroid (190166) 2005 UP156 is an Amor-type asteroid with a diameter of 1.03 km discovered by the Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak, on the 31st October 2005. Asteroid (190166) 2005 UP156 was detected as a radar binary by B. D. Warner and A. W. Harris in May 2017 Orbital elements: 2005 UP156 Epoch 2...

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The 26 - 59 metre wide asteroid 2017 MR8 in the constellation Crater will make a close pass (3.29 LD, 0.00847 AU) travelling at 11.57 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th July 2017 @ 03:16 UT ±00:32. Magnitude: 19.1 V See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon...

Satellites may warn of killer landslides Researchers in China and the United Kingdom hope to use satellite imaging for the early detection of landslides in Southwest China, such as the one in late June that engulfed a village in Maoxian county, Sichuan province, leaving at least 10 dead and 73 missi...

ATel 10573: Optical follow-up of Gaia17bqo

Coral reefs, like tree rings, are natural archives of climate change. But oceanic corals also provide a faithful account of how people make use of land through history, says Robert B. Dunbar of Stanford University. In a study published in the Feb. 22 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Dunbar an...

Volunteers try lunar lifestyle in 'moon cabin' Two months ago, postgraduate student Liu Hui traded in store-bought food for long days of picking vegetables, milling flour, and eating bugs. "All ingredients needed to be hand-picked and cooked fresh," Liu said. "Our everyday meals included tomat...

The giant stone statues of Easter Island have perplexed generations of archaeologists, engineers and scholars. Ever since European explorers first set eyes on them three centuries ago these carvings have presented a problem. How could the island's primitive inhabitants have erected such mass...

ATel 10572: Photometry and spectroscopy of FeII nova ASASSN-17hx, finally passing through maximum

In the corner of a giant field of beet on an unremarkable patch of wasteland, two 2,000ft-long corrugated steel pipes emerge at right angles from a grey cabin. In the shadow of a row of electricity pylons and surrounded by nettles, there is little about the scene to detain the casual observer. It i...

In Our Time - Radio 4 program on Asteroids. It is thought that asteroids are the unused building blocks of planets, 'pristine material' that has remained chemically unchanged since the creation of the solar system; a snapshot of matter at the beginning of time. Contributors[/...

Before the invention of photography, artists were used to document the colours and appearance of newly discovered creatures and plants. To celebrate their work, the Natural History Museum in London is showcasing its own extensive art collection. Images of Nature will be open at the Natural Histo...

Title: Evidence for a planetary mass third body orbiting the binary star KIC 5095269 Author: A. K. Getley, B. Carter, R. King, S. O'Toole In this paper, we report the evidence for a planetary mass body orbiting the close binary star KIC 5095269. This detection arose from a search for eclipse timing va...

Indian Rebellion of 1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper...