Orbital elements:
2014 LN17 Earth MOID = 0.0012 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 8.46575 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.24931045 Peri. 262.81751 -0.89871535 -0.42311290
a 2.5002056 Node 252.09580 +0.43474704 -0.82516884
e 0.7987011 Incl. 6.95743 +0.05749545 -0.37426175
P 3.95 H 27.0 G 0....
Great Oklahoma Fireball of 1920 The meteor of June 8, 1920, was bigger, brighter, and louder than anything anyone had ever seen. Seen by hundreds of thousands, a meteor of substantial size entered the Earth's atmosphere at around 8:45 p.m. on June 8, 1920, originating around the Arkansas-Louisian...
Orbital elements:
2014 KX99 Earth MOID = 0.1388 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 0.78334 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.20741676 Peri. 348.54434 +0.12600353 +0.96671372
a 2.8264425 Node 288.39052 -0.89062517 +0.01136959
e 0.5926582 Incl. 13.57204 -0.43693239 +0.25560774
P 4.75 H 18.4 G 0...
NGC 6453 (also ESO 393-SC36 and GCL 79) is a magnitude +10.2 globular star cluster located 37,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at the Cape of Good Hope o...
The 18 - 41 metre wide asteroid 2014 LM9 will make a close pass (22.8 lunar distances, 0.0587 AU), travelling at 7.32 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th June 2014 @ 22:52 UT ±00:11. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
The 64 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2014 KC46 will make a close pass (11.3 lunar distances, 0.0290 AU), travelling at 19.20 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th June 2014 @ 21:42 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
The 370 - 820 metre wide asteroid 2013 WY67 will make a close pass (52.9 lunar distances, 0.1358 AU), travelling at 14.41 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th June 2014 @ 2:11 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
Orbital elements:
2012 KT42 Earth MOID = 0.0001 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 276.07228 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.63335661 Peri. 94.63324 +0.94927348 +0.31440030
a 1.3428799 Node 247.04223 -0.29089600 +0.87115523
e 0.5189153 Incl. 0.35369 -0.11941263 +0.37714853
P 1.56 H 28.8 G...
Orbital elements:
2013 LU28
Epoch 2013 May 28.0 TT = JDT 2456440.5 MPC
M 297.70478 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.01166545 Peri. 179.04039 +0.06959718 +0.45387695
a 19.2546233 Node 265.57301 +0.90921929 +0.33754205
e 0.6288316 Incl. 117.00075 +0.41045892 -0.82465816
P 84.5 H 8.1 G 0.15
From 27 obser...
The 28 - 63 metre wide asteroid 2014 KG39 will make a close pass (27.8 lunar distances, 0.0713 AU), travelling at 8.39 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th June 2014 @ 05:12 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
Messier 62 (also M62, NGC 6266, ESO 453-SC14 and GCl 51) is a magnitude +7.39 globular star cluster located 22,500 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. NGC 6266 is one of the most irregular globular clusters known. Its deformation, first reported by William Herschel, (who was the fir...
A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket is scheduled to launch the Persona N2 reconnaissance satellite (Kosmos 2486) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, on the 7th June 2013. Persona is a class of Russian reconnaissance satellites, derived from the Resurs DK class of remote sensing satellite, itself derived from...
Galaxies are not as isolated as they at first glance may seem; on a cosmic scale they congregate in clumps along with dark matter and hot gas. The colourful blob in this new composite image, based on data from several telescopes including ESA's XMM-Newton, is the group of galaxies known as the Bullet G...
