NGC 6709 (also Collinder 392 and OCL 100) is a magnitude +6.7 open star cluster located 3,900 ±570 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The star Zeta Aquilae is 5° southwest, and the open star cluster IC 4756 is located 6° towards the northeast. The cluster was discovered by British astron...
Title: Probing the unified model in NGC 7314 Authors: J. Ebrero, E. Costantini, J. S. Kaastra, B. De Marco, M. Dadina We present a study of the complex absorbed X-ray spectrum of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7314. We collected available public X-ray data from the archives of XMM-Newton, Suzak...
The 230 - 520 metre wide asteroid 2008 LV16 will make a close pass (52.9 lunar distances, 0.1360 AU), travelling at 12.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th July 2014 @ 17:16 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Orbital elements:
C/2013 H1 (La Sagra)
T 2013 June 1.37260 TT MPC
q 2.6222178 (2000.0) P Q
Peri. 141.51313 -0.62907117 +0.62900461
Node 84.20588 -0.77693160 -0.48952855
e 1.0 Incl. 27.32891 -0.02543145 -0.60391638
From 80 observations 2013 Apr. 19-22. MPEC 2013 - H27 Key to Orbital ele...
Cosmos 1151 was a Soviet test satellite launched on the 23rd January 1980 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome aboard a Tsyklon 3 rocket Source Kosmos 1151 is expected to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 10th August 2014 @ 10:42 UT ±84 hours.Perigee:234.4 kmApogee:245.7 km Inclination:82.4 ° Peri...
Ranger 7 was the first US space probe to successfully transmit close images of the lunar surface back to Earth. It was also the first completely successful flight of the Ranger program. Launched on 28 July 1964, Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resoluti...
South Korea will launch a satellite for geographical updates, natural resource searches and environmental observation from a Russian spaceport late this month, government officials said Wednesday.
The multipurpose Arirang 2 satellite is scheduled to lift off July 28 from a launch pad in t...
NGC 6130 (also IRAS 16185+5743, MCG 10-23-66, UGC 10347 and PGC 57828) is a magnitude +13.5 barred spiral galaxy located 236 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift using a 40.64 cm (16 inch) refractor on the 28th July 1886....
NGC 6208 (also Collinder 313, ESO 179-SC14 and OCL 964) is a magnitude +7.5 open star cluster located 3,062 light-years away in the constellation Ara. The cluster was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop using a homemade 9-foot 22.86 cm (9 inch) f/12 speculum Newtonian reflector at Par...
NGC 6683 (also OCL 74) is a magnitude +9.4 open star cluster located in the constellation Scutum. The open cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Slough, England, on the 28th July 1827. Right Ascension 18h 42m 12...
The 7 - 16 metre wide asteroid 2014 OX3 made a close pass (2.2 lunar distances, 0.0058 AU), travelling at 12.65 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st July 2014 @ 19:40 UT ±00:02. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Orbital elements:
2014 OW3 Earth MOID = 0.0013 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 311.38145 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.42002413 Peri. 106.23063 +0.61527883 -0.77971983
a 1.7658476 Node 305.21670 +0.65809765 +0.58909930
e 0.7397453 Incl. 8.16679 +0.43398093 +0.21212970
P 2.35 H 22.4 G 0...