The 61 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2013 PW14 will make a close pass (49.4 lunar distances, 0.1269 AU), travelling at 6.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th August, 2013 @ 17:30 UT ±00:05. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
ISRO plans to launch satellite for Navy in a few months The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built a dedicated satellite for the Navy which will be launched in a few months by an Ariane-5 rocket from the Kourou island in French Guiana. The communication satellite that weighs 2.5 tonnes i...
Title: Shocked and Scorched: The Tail of a Tadpole in an Interstellar Pond Authors: R. Sahai, M.R. Morris, M.J. Claussen We report multi-wavelength observations of the far-infrared source IRAS 20324+4057, including high-resolution optical imaging with HST, and ground-based near-infrared,...
Signs of large meteorite impact 4.1 billion years ago More than 4.1 billion years the Earth may collide with a huge meteorite. This conclusion mineralogist at the University of Bonn, together with British and Danish colleagues in a recent study. The researchers analysed ancient rock samples from...
Orbital elements:
1996 TP6 Earth MOID = 0.0934 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 336.67864 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.23059447 Peri. 251.82061 +0.33874070 +0.93551653
a 2.6337232 Node 38.45150 -0.79074347 +0.34084494
e 0.6389815 Incl. 9.28353 -0.50988186 +0.09291684
P 4.27 H 20.1 G 0...
The 90 - 200 metre wide asteroid 2008 PW4 will make a close pass (14.3 lunar distances, 0.0367 AU), travelling at 6.77 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th August, 2013 @ 14:18 UT ±2 days 16:39. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
New Mexican Skies Protected with Dark Sky Park Designation The 34,000-acre Chaco Culture National Historical Park is home to many ancient wonders including the remains of a civilization that thrived over 1,000 years ago. The park, which has been protecting its archaeological riches since it was...
Winnipeg teen finds possible meteorite in school yard An astronomy expert is set to examine an unusual-looking rock - a possible meteorite - that a Winnipeg teenager found this summer. Isabella Silva, a 13-year-old collector of fossils and rocks, discovered the heavy, dark rock jutting out of the...
Title: Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data Authors: J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. All...
Margaret is the only prograde irregular satellite of Uranus. It was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard, et al. on August 29, 2003, and given the provisional designation S/2003 U 3. Read more
World's Biggest Round Blue Diamond May Fetch $19 Million The world's biggest round "fancy vivid" blue diamond is estimated to sell for more than $19 million at an auction in Hong Kong in October. The brilliant-cut internally flawless stone, weighing 7.59 carats, will be auctioned by So...
Milky Way Gas Cloud Causes Multiple Images of Distant Quasar For the first time, astronomers have seen the image of a distant quasar split into multiple images by the effects of a cloud of ionised gas in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Such events were predicted as early as 1970, but the first evidence for one...
A new magnitude 17.4, comet, was discovered by A. Boattini (Mt. Lemmon Survey) on November 20th, 2007, and confirmed by the later observations. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on June 14th, 2008 at a distance of 0.7 AU from the Sun. The comet could reac...
The Close encounter of Cussac is the name given to an event which happened to a young brother and sister in Cussac, Cantal, France in August 1967. They reported a UFO sighting and encounter with alien beings. Read more
Mammoth Delta IV Heavy Primed for Wednesday Mission to Launch Classified NROL-65 Satellite On Wednesday, 28 August, a second Delta IV Heavy is slated to roar aloft from Vandenberg, carrying another classified NRO payload, known only as "NROL-65." According to the Air Force, liftoff w...
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