What local hunters in Whitecourt thought for years was a sinkhole is actually the crater left behind by a meteor that fell to earth 1,000 years ago and is now attracting international attention from researchers. The crater is 36 metres wide and six metres deep, which is small as far as most craters go...
Monturaqui is a meteorite crater in Chile. It is located south of the Salar de Atacama, in the Antofagasta Region. Read more Latitude: 23°55'41"S, Longitude: 68°15'42"W This 1,509ft in diameter crater is one of the be...
Western Australia is prime meteorite collecting country because its barren expanse makes fallen space debris easy to spot. The Mundrabilla meteorite (named for the town in Western Australia where it was located in 1966) is one of the largest known iron-composition space stones in existence, and...
The Pultusk (H5) meteorite fell in Ostroleka, Poland, on the 30th January, 1868. A total mass of 250 kg was recovered. 52° 46'N, 21° 16'E The meteorite fall ocurred on the January 30, 1868, in the vicinity of the town of Pultusk, NE from Warsaw. The area of the fall was 127 km². The estimated total mass of...
On 23 December 1998 the NEAR spacecraft flew within 3824 km of the asteroid 433 Eros (33x33x16 km diameter[url=http://cps.earth.northwestern.edu/near.html]ht...
The Homestead (L5) meteorite fell in Iowa, USA, on the 12th February, 1875. A total mass of 230 kg was recovered. 41° 48'N, 91° 52'W On the evening of 12 February 1875 above Iowa a brilliant fireball was observed. About 100 meteorite fragments fell over a 47 km² snowy countryside area from Amana to Bolt...
Orbital elements:
P/2012 S2 (La Sagra)
T 2012 Aug. 19.06420 TT MPC
q 1.3788295 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.09406562 Peri. 312.30452 +0.98920208 -0.08399277
a 4.7883084 Node 52.86581 +0.13167491 +0.86916049
e 0.7120425 Incl. 8.66460 -0.06435031 +0.48734511
P 10.5
From 77 observations 2012 Sept....
NGC 2409 (also Lund 1128 and Bochum 4) is a group of eight stars located 7,470 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. The cluster or asterism can be found about 11° to the east of Sirius, 2.5 degrees to the south-west of M47, in the very rich star-fields belonging to the Perseus Arm. The componen...
NGC 2617 (also MCG -1-22-27 and PGC 24141) is a magnitude +13.8 Seyfert spiral galaxy located 199 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflecting telescope at the Marseille Obs...
NGC 2924 (also MCG -3-25-8, VV 808, NPM1G -16.0288 and PGC 27253) is a magnitude +12.3 elliptical galaxy located 199 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at the Cape of Go...
The 38 - 85 metre wide asteroid 2014 CA3 will make a close pass (33.6 lunar distances, 0.0864 AU), travelling at 6.31 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th February 2014 @ 06:36 UT ±00:08. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
The 16 - 36 metre wide asteroid 2014 CB3 will make a close pass (8.8 lunar distances, 0.0227 AU), travelling at 7.55 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th February 2014 @ 15:52 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
XXVIII. On the which appeared on Monday, the 11th of February 1850, at about 10h 45m p.m. The magnificent meteor which was seen all over England on the night of February 11, 1850, was so remarkable in many respects, that i beg to send you the following particulars of it. Read more "A Representa...
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