Orbital elements:
2013 OU3 Earth MOID = 0.1732 AU
Epoch 2013 July 7.0 TT = JDT 2456480.5 MPC
M 347.93506 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25560735 Peri. 172.45074 +0.89532987 +0.44272073
a 2.4589733 Node 161.03785 -0.41609904 +0.87048068
e 0.5190195 Incl. 8.63982 -0.15888996 +0.21508542
P 3.86 H 22.8 G 0...
The 130 - 300 metre wide asteroid 2013 QR1 will make a close pass (8.2 lunar distances, 0.0211 AU), travelling at 31.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th August, 2013 @ 19:31 UT ± 00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Windsurfing on a Wicked World Working with the Collaborative Modelling for Parametric Assessment of Space Systems (COMPASS) Laboratory at Glenn, Geoffrey Landis of NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, has set sail on a new type of spacecraft: the Venus Landsailing Rover, dubbed the Zephy...
Oldest Globe To Show New World, 509-Year-Old Map Engraved On Ostrich Egg The oldest known globe to show the New World has been discovered, according to a Washington Map Society news release. The 509-year-old globe was engraved on an ostrich egg the size of a grapefruit. The carvings show a group of sc...
The 320 - 710 metre wide asteroid 2002 QZ6 will make a close pass (72.2 lunar distances, 0.1856 AU), travelling at 14.06 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th August, 2013 @ 20:26 UT ± 11:35. See moreThe Lunar Dis...
Hubble Peers at a Cosmic Optical Illusion At first glance, this Hubble picture appears to capture two space giants entangled in a fierce celestial battle, with two galaxies entwined and merging to form one. But this shows just how easy it is to misinterpret the jumble of sparkling stars and get the wr...
Former astronaut Neil Armstrong will be given his honorary degree from Edinburgh University in Washington DC later this week. The ceremony is part of a series of events designed to celebrate the university's strong ties with the United States. [url=http://news.scotsman.com/education/City...
The Arlington (Iron, IIE-an) meteorite fell on Minnesota, USA, on the 9 April, 1894. A total weight of 8.94 kg was recovered. Latitude: 44° 36'N, Longitude: 94° 6'W
Alcatel Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the republic of South Korea Space Agency, to provide a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) payload system for KOMPSAT-5, the main Earth observation space program of the Republic of South Korea.
The KOM...
Orbital elements:
P/2013 J2 (McNaught)
T 2013 Aug. 26.98723 TT MPC
q 2.0868486 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.11450058 Peri. 39.41152 +0.82514985 +0.50766373
a 4.2001448 Node 288.37332 -0.56142134 +0.68824029
e 0.5031484 Incl. 15.13603 -0.06272006 +0.51826909
P 8.61
From 12 observations 2013 May...
Ipplepen Iron Age settlement 'one of most significant' finds An Iron Age settlement unearthed in Devon has been described as one of the most important finds of its kind. It was prompted by the chance discovery of Roman coins in fields at Ipplepen, near Newton Abbot about four years ago.
TAU Archaeologists Find Massive Fortifications from the Iron Age Researchers from Tel Aviv University have unearthed the remains of massive ancient fortifications built around an Iron-Age Assyrian harbor in present-day Israel.
Man finds possible meteorite on hunting trip Leslie Davis was looking for deer when he started out on a hunting trip last November, but what he found was a little out of this world - he thinks. Davis was walking while deer hunting in Kirby in Franklin County when he saw smoke coming from a large hole in the...
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