Orbital elements:
P/2011 N1
T 2012 May 30.02841 TT MPC
q 2.8762399 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.06175252 Peri. 330.23520 +0.57605004 -0.58538787
a 6.3391774 Node 77.91037 +0.81651661 +0.37937920
e 0.5462755 Incl. 35.69395 +0.03830111 +0.71651410
P 16.0
From 46 observations 2011 July 1-7.
MPEC 2...
The 120 - 280 metre wide asteroid 2008 BP16 will make a close pass (42.7 lunar distances, 0.1097 AU), travelling at 21.31 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th February, 2011 @ 23:37 UT ±00:18. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
Sun 16.02.14: Ultraviolet photo mosaic (380nm) captured with a 114mm reflector Sun 16.02.14: the western limb Sun 16.02.14: the eastern limb Sun 16.02.14: Photo mosaic captured with a 100mm refractor Sun 16.02.14: Photo mosaic (processed)
Isaac Roberts (27 January 1829 - 17 July 1904) was a Welsh engineer and business man best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae. He was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society in England and was a fellow of the Royal Geological Society...
Moon 16.02.14: Captured with a 100mm refractor Moon 16.02.14: Captured with a 100mm refractor Moon 16.02.14: Captured with a 100mm refractor Moon 16.02.14: Captured with a 100mm refractor
NGC 1708 is a magnitude +11.0 open cluster located 1957 light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. The cluster is about 575 million year old. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough, on t...
NGC 2267 (also ESO 426-29, MCG -5-16-15, AM 0638-322 and PGC 19417) is a magnitude +12.2 inclined spiral galaxy located 71 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at t...
NGC 2315 (also UGC 3633, MCG 8-13-45 and PGC 20045) is a magnitude +13.6 spiral galaxy located 289 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough, on the 1...
NGC 2588 (also OCL 715 and ESO 370-SC10) is a magnitude +11.8 open cluster located 16,145 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. NGC 2588 is about 450 million years old. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at the Cap...
The Owl Nebula Stars similar to the Sun end their lives as white dwarfs. But, before becoming those dense stellar corpses, they expel their outer gaseous layers and they ornate the sky for some thousands of years with the most beautiful objects in the universe: planetary nebulae. M97, better known a...
Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes Two talks at a scientific conference this week will propose a common root for an enormous deluge in western Tennessee in May 2010, and a historic outbreak of tornadoes centred on Alabama in April 2011. Both events seem to be linked to a relatively ra...
Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus' five major moons. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on February 16, 1948 at McDonald Observatory. It was named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest by Kuiper in his report of the discovery. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
