Orbital elements:
2012 BF86 Earth MOID = 0.0242 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 222.96840 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.50224957 Peri. 196.19688 +0.69356221 +0.71424738
a 0.7550482 Node 117.82695 -0.64860760 +0.67585502
e 0.4392164 Incl. 6.09677 -0.31349584 +0.18185341
P 0.66 H 22.4...
The 25 - 55 metre wide asteroid 2014 BY43 will make a close pass (20.6 lunar distances, 0.0530 AU), travelling at 19.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th January, 2014 @ 19:00 UT ±00:02. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
The 25 - 57 metre wide asteroid 2005 YO3 will make a close pass (37.0 lunar distances, 0.0949 AU), travelling at 9.15 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dista...
Preparations are currently underway for Sealaunchs next mission, the launch of the NSS-8 communications satellite, in January.
This is Sea Launchs first mission of the year and also their first...
On 2014 Jan 30 UT, the 15 km diameter asteroid (4013) Ogiria will occult a 5.9 mag star in the constellation Aries for observers along a path across SE Canada, NE USA. In the case of an occultation, the combined light of the asteroid and the star will drop by 12.0 mag to 17.9 mag (the magnitude of the astero...
A repeat of the 1607 storm surge that caused severe flooding in south Wales and south west England 400 years ago would be the UK's costliest natural disaster, claims a new report. A risk management company has...
The Coronas-Photon (Complex ORbital Observations Near-Earth of Activity of the Sun) satellite is to be launch into near-Earth orbit on the 29th January 2009. The science satellite will study solar hard radiation and global warming processes, and the Sun's interaction with the Earth, The satell...
NGC 2225 is a magnitude +11.5 open star cluster located 10437 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. The central part of the cluster was catalogued as NGC 2226 by Edward Emerson Barnard. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inc...
NGC 3339 is a single star located in the constellation Sextans. NGC 3339 is near the spiral galaxy NGC 3340 The star was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point observatory in Sliema, Malta, on the 30th January 1865. Righ...
NGC 3340 (also UGC 5827, MCG 0-27-42, ZWG 9.101 and PGC 31892) is a magnitude +12.9 face-on spiral galaxy located 225 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's Tign...
NGC 1646 (also MCG -1-13-3, 2ZW 22, 2MASX J04442354-0831521 and PGC 15914) is a is a magnitude +13.0 lenticular galaxy located 220 ±16 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy is close to the star 56 Eridani. NGC 1646 may be a pair of galaxies; a compact galaxy or tidal tail c...
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, by David Livingstone During the time we remained at Motunta a splendid meteor was observed to lighten the whole heavens. The observer's back was turned to it, but on looking round the streak of light was seen to re...
Pennsylvania fireball of 1952 January 29 On the above date at 6:17 P.M., a very fine fireball crossed a considerable part of eastern Pennsylvania going in general from north to south. It so happened that the writer was about to leave town for several days, but before doing so he 'phoned the larger loca...
NGC 2836 (also ESO 61-3, IRAS09131-6907 and PGC 26017) is a magnitude +11.8 spiral galaxy located 78 million light-years away in the constellation Carina. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, C...
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