Orbital Sciences Corporation today announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Centre (SMC) recently ordered the first Minotaur V launch vehicle under the companys Orbital/Suborbital Program-2 (OSP-2) contract. The Minotaur V rocket will propel NASAs Lunar Atmosphere and Dus...
Title: KOI-3278: A Self-Lensing Binary Star System Author: Ethan Kruse, Eric Agol Over 40% of Sun-like stars are bound in binary or multistar systems. Stellar remnants in edge-on binary systems can gravitationally magnify their companions, as predicted 40 years ago. By using data from the Keple...
Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of the nation's second-largest city. Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton, a skull of an American lion and bones of sabre-toothed cats, dire wolves, bison, horses, gro...
Earth's surface transformed by massive asteroids
A cluster of at least three asteroids between 20 and 50 kilometres across colliding with Earth over 3.2 billion years ago caused a mas...
The 88 - 200 metre wide asteroid 1999 SH10 will make a close pass (44.6 lunar distances, 0.1147 AU), travelling at 6.40 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th April 2014 @ 18:39 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
Orbital elements:
2007 TV18 Earth MOID = 0.0015 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 344.93059 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.71583601 Peri. 289.21888 +0.21644505 +0.97629294
a 1.2376381 Node 353.28058 -0.88949723 +0.19639612
e 0.3481269 Incl. 0.93426 -0.40242542 +0.09099816
P 1.38 H 23.7 G...
NGC 3224 (also ESO 375-13, MCG -6-23-24 and PGC 30314) is a magnitude +11.0 elliptical galaxy located 142 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at the Cape of Good Hope...
NGC 3535 (also IRAS 11059+0505, MCG 1-29-4, UGC 6189 and PGC 33760) is a magnitude +13.5 spiral galaxy located 320 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Dat...
NGC 4809 (also Arp 277, IRAS 12523+0255, MCG 1-33-22, UGC 8034 and PGC 43969) is a magnitude +13.8 irregular galaxy located 42 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by Irish astronomer R. J. Mitchell, assistant to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, using a...
NGC 4810 (also Arp 277, MCG 1-33-23 and PGC 43971) is a magnitude +14.3 irregular galaxy located 42 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by Irish astronomer R. J. Mitchell, assistant to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, using a 182.88 cm (72 inch) speculu...
NGC 5088 (also IRAS 13176-1218, MCG -2-34-34 and PGC 46535) is a magnitude +12.4 barred spiral galaxy located 66 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by Irish astronomer R. J. Mitchell, assistant to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, using a 182.88 cm (72...
Sun 17.04.14: Photo mosaic captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam Sun 17.04.14: A new sunspot has appeared over the eastern limb Sun 17.04.14: Ultraviolet photo mosaic Sun 17.04.14: Ultraviolet photo mosaic (processed)
Title: On the RZ Draconis Sub-stellar Circumbinary Companions Stability Study of the Proposed Sub-stellar Circumbinary System Author: Tobias C. Hinse, Jonathan Horner, Jae Woo Lee, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Chung-Uk Lee, Jang-Ho Park Jonathan P. Marshall In this work we revisit the proposed mult...