Asteroid (476) Hedwig occults the +7.0 magnitude star HD 202990 in the constellation Aquarius at ~21:10 UT, 1st May, 2013. The event is visible from Southeast Asia
Globular clusters, often regarded as the most boring denizens of our galaxy, have just become a lot more interesting. Rogue, hot stars have been discovered inside them. The tens of thousands of stars that make up each globular cluster were all thought to have formed at the same time, with exactly the...
Title: Young stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds Authors: A. Vallenari We discuss the young population of stars and clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. We present the discovery of pre-main sequence candidates in the nebula N~11 in the Large Magellanic Clouds using HST ACS photometry. Th...
Chelmsford based e2v technologies is to build the world’s biggest digital camera as part of a space mission that will create the largest and most precise 3D map of the Milky Way to date.
The European Space Agency has contracted e2v to manufacture the 200 CCD (charge-coupled devices) ima...
Title: Spectral and Spin Measurement of Two Small and Fast-Rotating Near-Earth Asteroids Authors: D. Polishook, R. P. Binzel, M. Lockhart, F. E. DeMeo, W. Golisch, S. J. Bus, A. A. S. Gulbis In May 2012 two asteroids made near-miss "grazing" passes at distances of a few Earth-radii: 201...
Large-scale study 'shows neonic pesticides harm bees' The most extensive study to date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes that they harm both honeybees and wild bees. Researchers said that exposure to the chemicals left honeybee hives less likely to survive over winter, while bumblebees an...
Coastal cities in the US, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, India and Turkey are teetering on the brink of natural disasters, a meeting at Lloyds has been told. The gloomy message was spelt out at an otherwise celebratory event, a presentation to mark the 10th anniversary of Benfield UCL Hazard Research C...
Climate scientists set sail to explore changing Arctic Ocean A new £10 million research programme to investigate how the Arctic Ocean is changing has launched its first cruise to the Barents Sea. The Changing Arctic Oceans research programme aims to generate a better understanding of the Arctic s...
New island forms on North Carolina's Atlantic coast A new island has formed off the coast of North Carolina's Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The isle is a mile long (16.km), depending on tides and weather, and separated from the mainland by a (330ft) 100 metre wide channel. It was first spotting by...
An Ariane 5 ECA rocket is scheduled to launch the Inmarsat S-band/Hellas-Sat 3 and GSAT 17 communications satellites from Kourou, French Guiana between 20:59 and 22:16 UT, 28th June 2017.
Nighttime Rocket Launch Creates Colourful Clouds in Space Spoiler The early morning skies along the mid-Atlantic coast were lit up by luminescent clouds as NASA tested a new system to support science studies of the ionosph...
Orbital elements:
2017 MC1 Earth MOID = 0.0026 AU
Epoch 2017 Sept. 4.0 TT = JDT 2458000.5 MPC
M 8.37949 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21736026 Peri. 43.29509 +0.69397047 +0.71983793
a 2.7395713 Node 270.65665 -0.66473037 +0.63230959
e 0.6536292 Incl. 0.88465 -0.27665596 +0.28638773
P 4.53 H 24.4 G 0.1...
The 23 - 52 metre wide asteroid 2017 MB3 in the constellation Hercules will make a close pass (4.99 LD, 0.01283 AU), travelling at 6.45 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th June 2017 @ 16:42 UT ±00:01. Magnitude: 18.6 V See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moo...
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