The 130 - 280 metre wide asteroid 2014 OG1 will make a close pass (26.5 lunar distances, 0.0682 AU), travelling at 23.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st August 2014 @ 15:21 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
On August 1, 1786, Caroline Herschel becomes the first woman to discover a comet; Comet Herschel (C/1786 P1) Title: Definitive orbit of comet 1786 II Authors: Palmer, M. Comet 1786 II was discovered about ten o'clock in the evening of August 1, by Caroline Herschel, at her brother's Slough, near Win...
Title: Sarrabat and the comet of 1729 Authors: Lynn, W. T. This comet was discovered at Nismes by Father Sarrabat, Professor of Mathematics at Marseilles, on the 31st of July. Soon afterwards he ceased to be able to see it on account of the increasing moonlight; but succeeded in observing it during th...
Discovery of the Sayh al Uhaymir SAU 051 Meteorite on the 1st August 2000 Sayh al Uhaymir 051 20°58.435'N 57°19.248'E Oman Found 2000 August 1 Martian meteorite (shergottite) A 436 g stone was found close to the locations of Sayh al Uhaymir 005 and 008. All three samples may be paired. Read more
THE HARAIYA METEORITE (No. 237). This meteorite was recently obtained from Mr. R. B. Reid of Allahabad, and the following is an abstract of the particulars furnished by him :- It fell in the Basti district (United Provinces), about 14 miles west of the Sadr station in the afternoon during August or...
Title: A Chandra view of the z=1.62 galaxy cluster IRC-0218A Authors: M. Pierre, N. Clerc, B. Maughan, F. Pacaud, C. Papovich, C. N. A. Willmer Context: Very few z > 1.5 clusters of galaxies are known. It is important to study the properties of galaxies in these clusters and the ICM and, further, to...
A 215-year-old black pine known as "Tolkien's tree" in Oxford University's Botanic Garden is to be felled after two of its branches came down. The decision has been made by experts at Oxford City Council and the university after the large branches fell from the tree on Saturday. Read more...
Mercury: at magnitude -0.0, starts the month in the constellation of Gemini. The planet is Mercury (1.4 mag) is close (1.3° separated) to Regulus on the 23rd. Mercury is at Perihelion (distance to sun: 0.3075 AU) on the 12th. Mercury is at Superior Conjunction on the 24th. The Moon is 5° from Mercur...
Orbital elements:
2014 OM207 Earth MOID = 0.0009 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 345.81836 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.26578201 Peri. 167.08930 +0.34172057 +0.93929210
a 2.3958098 Node 122.88467 -0.86549276 +0.32736183
e 0.5787798 Incl. 2.11159 -0.36626403 +0.10278414
P 3.71 H 28.9...
Gerhard Zucker (1908 - 1985) was a German businessman and rocket engineer. However, none of his machinations proved to be operational, ranging from outright fraud to total failure. Born in Hasselfelde, he first came to public notice in 1931, when he began to work on the problem of transporting mail...
As part of NASA's wider Mariner program, Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 (Mariner Mars 69A / 69B) completed the first dual mission to Mars in 1969. Mariner 6 was launched from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Kennedy and Mariner 7 from Launch Complex 36A at Cape Kennedy. Closest approach for Mariner 6 occurred July 3...
K2 (also known as Savage Mountain, Mountaineer's Mountain, Mount Godwin-Austen, Balti: Chogori and Sarikoli: Mount Qogir) is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest. An Italian expedition finally succeeded in ascending to the summit of K2 via the Abruzzi Spur on 31 July 1954....
Spoiler Bright lunar ray leading to Crater Fracastorius and Mare Nectaris captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam. 2X Barlow lens. Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter Fracastorius is the lava-flooded remn...
ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Discs Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. These new ALMA observations provide the cl...
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