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The 37 - 82 metre wide asteroid 2014 LY9 made a close pass (49.2 lunar distances, 0.1263 AU), travelling at 6.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th June 2014 @ 07:14 UT ±01:14 See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The Katmai National Park and Preserve is located in mainland Alaska where the Alaska Peninsula first begins to reach south-westward into the Bering Sea. Very little was known about this area, at least to European people, as recently as a hundred years ago, but on June 6, 1912, the region entered the r...
The Eastern Mediterranean Event was a high-energy aerial explosion over the Mediterranean Sea, around 34°N 21°E (between Libya and Crete, Greece) on June 6, 2002. This explosion, similar in power to a small atomic bomb, has been related to an asteroid undetected while approaching the Earth. The o...
The 20 - 44 metre wide asteroid 2014 KA91 will make a close pass (9.1 lunar distances, 0.0235 AU), travelling at 8.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th June 2014 @ 17:27 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)....
The 36 - 81 metre wide asteroid 2014 JU24 will make a close pass (61.9 lunar distances, 0.1589 AU), travelling at 3.85 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th June 2014 @ 04:12 UT ±00:14. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
The 81 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2014 FV32 will make a close pass (62.7 lunar distances, 0.1612 AU), travelling at 9.32 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th June 2014 @ 01:26 UT ±00:17. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU...
The 88 - 200 metre wide asteroid 2014 HY176 will make a close pass (42.4 lunar distances, 0.1091 AU), travelling at 9.89 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th June 2014 @ 09:29 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
The 12 - 27 metre wide asteroid 2014 KQ84 will make a close pass (8.6 lunar distances, 0.0221 AU), travelling at 3.56 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th June 2014 @ 08:44 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)....
The 75 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2014 JL25 will make a close pass (10.2 lunar distances, 0.0261 AU), travelling at 13.08 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th June 2014 @ 05:38 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
The globular cluster M22, contains over 100,000 stars. These stars formed together and are gravitationally bound. Stars orbit the centre of the cluster, and the cluster orbits the centre of our Galaxy.
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Messier 21 (also M21, ESO 521-SC19, NGC 6531 and OCL 26) is a magnitude +6.5 open star cluster located 4,250 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. M21 contains about 57 stars, mainly small dim stars. The brightest stars are bluegiants of spectral type B0. On this basis, it is estimated...
Messier 19 or M19 (also designated NGC 6273) is a globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764[5] and added to his catalogue of comet-like objects that same year. Read more
High resolution spectroscopy of the Bug Nebula (NGC 6302) by the Gemini South observatory has revealed hyperfine structure in the 3.66 micron line of ionized aluminium.
A joint Chile-United Kingdom team led by Simon Casassus (University of Chile) used the NOAO-built Phoenix n...