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Orbital elements: 2011 OR15 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0386 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 338.86669 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46188357 Peri. 251.23450 +0.79202809 -0.60852868 a 1.6574777 Node 146.19884 +0.58795283 +0.73882204 e 0.4454908 Incl. 5.03556 +0.16432581 +0.28954246 P 2.13 H...

The 660 - 1500 metre wide asteroid 2001 PJ9 will make a close pass (29.2 lunar distances, 0.0751 AU), travelling at 17.79 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th July, 2013 @ 23:08 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance...

Seasat was the first Earth-orbiting satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans and had onboard the first spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Seasat was managed by JPL and was launched on June 28, 1978 into a nearly circular 800 km orbit with an inclination of 108 degrees. Fo...

The 590 - 1300 metre wide asteroid 2001 SO73 will make a close pass (73.2 lunar distances, 0.1880 AU), travelling at 19.57 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th July, 2013 @ 13:35 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distan...

The 510 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 1988 XB will make a close pass (46.0 lunar distances, 0.1183 AU), travelling at 10.19 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th July, 2013 @ 13:19 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD...

Title: The Great Meteor of 1941 June 28 Authors: H. H. Nininger This is a report of observations by 4 scientists who witnessed the flight of a great meteor as they were returning from the Eighth (Flagstaff, Arizona) Meeting of the Society for Research on Meteorites, on 1941 June 28. Interesting data w...

The first nuclear power plant in the world for the large-scale production of electricity opened in Obninsk on June 27, 1954, and it also doubled as a training base for the crew of the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, the K-3 Leninsky Komsomol. Now the city is home to twelve scientific research...

Title: SN 2007uy - metamorphosis of an aspheric Type Ib explosion Authors: Rupak Roy, Brijesh Kumar, Justyn R. Maund, Patricia Schady, Felipe Olivares E., Daniele Malesani, Giorgos Leloudas, Sumana Nandi, Nial Tanvir, Dan Milisavljevic, Jens Hjorth, Kuntal Misra, Brajesh Kumar, S. B. Pandey,...

Title: Eclipsing high-mass binaries I. Light curves and system parameters for CPD-518946, PISMIS24-1 and HD319702 Authors: A. Barr Domínguez, R. Chini, F. Pozo Nuñez, M. Haas, M. Hackstein, H. Drass, R. Lemke, M. Murphy We present first results of a comprehensive photometric O-star survey perf...

Title: A near-infrared variability campaign of TMR-1: New light on the nature of the candidate protoplanet TMR-1C Authors: B. Riaz, E. L. Martin, M. G. Petr-Gotzens, J.-L. Monin We present a near-infrared (NIR) photometric variability study of the candidate protoplanet, TMR-1C, located at a se...

The Kondor is an 800 kg Earth observation small spacecraft designed to provide high-resolution imagery and terrain mapping in real-time. Read more

The Tennasilm (L4 chondrite) meteorite fell in Tennasilm, Estonia, on the 28th June, 1872. A total mass of 28.5 kg was recovered. 58° 2'N, 26° 57'E

The Sazovice (L5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic, on the 28th June, 1934. A total mass of 412 g was recovered. 49° 14'N, 17° 34'E

The Ställdalen (H5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Orebro, Sweden, on the 28th June, 1876. A total mass of 34 kg was recovered. 59° 56'N, 14° 57'E

Charles Jasper Joly (27 June 1864 - 4 January 1906) was an Irish mathematician and astronomer who became Royal Astronomer of Ireland Read more