Orbital elements:
2013 LJ25 Earth MOID = 0.2559 AU
Epoch 2013 May 28.0 TT = JDT 2456440.5 MPC
M 358.54581 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.22533108 Peri. 136.12173 +0.28348074 +0.95664075
a 2.6745783 Node 150.15926 -0.91275456 +0.29056029
e 0.5317863 Incl. 7.72803 -0.29413905 +0.02032709
P 4.37 H 18.6 G...
The Nantong (H6, Ordinary chondrite) meteorite fell in Jiangsu, China, in June 15, 1984. Recovered weight: 529 g Latitude: 32'7' N, Longitude: 121'48' E The Nantong meteorite is reported to have narrowly missed a farmer.
The Kijima (EL, stone; enstatite chondrite) meteorite fell in Honshu, Japan, in June 15, 1906. Recovered weight: 331g Latitude: 36° 51' N, Longitude: 138° 23' E
The N'Goureyma (UNGR, iron) meteorite fell in Ke Macina, Mali, in June 15, 1900. Recovered weight: 37.5 kg Latitude: 13° 51' N, Longitude: 4° 23' W Read more
The Great Comet of 1577 (official designation: C/1577 V1) was a comet that passed close to Earth during the year 1577 AD. It was viewed by people all over Europe, including famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. From his observations of the comet, Brahe was able to discover that comets and similar obj...
Iran has launched an orbital test rocket on the 15th, June, 2011 (Ed ~ This is as yet Unconfirmed).X
1 37675U 11025A 11166.48964799 .00062356 12718-4 10000-3 22
2 37675 055.6760 305.0123 0036755 083.0803 277.4248 16.02454193 11 RB
1 37676U 11025B 11166.48951585 .00078844 13877-4 10000-3 2...
TerraSAR-X Scheduled for Launch from Baikonur on February 27th
The German radar satellite TerraSAR-X will be launched from Baikonur on February 27th, 2007 on a Dnepr-1 rocket. This new launch date has now been announced by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), its industrial partners Ast...
Burning meteorite steaks across the sky There have been multiple reports of a bright burning light in the sky on the Sunshine Coast this evening. Witnesses reported seeing an amazingly bright white ball falling to earth with a tail on it that quickly turned orange in the night sky just after 6pm. [url...
Urania Sternwarte is a public observatory in the Lindenhof quarter of Zurich, Switzerland. On June 15, 1907, the observatory was given to operational use. Its approximately 51 meter high tower, dominating western end of Zurich's historical Altstadt. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ura...
Gliese 412 is a pair of stars that share a common proper motion through space and are thought to form a binary star system. The pair have an angular separation of 31.4" at a position angle of 126.1°. They are located 15.8 light years distant from the Sun in the constellation Ursa Major. [url=http:...
Title: Picard satellite for solar astrometry Authors: Costantino Sigismondi The Picard solar satellite has been launched on June 15, 2010. This mission is dedicated to the measurement of the solar diameter with an expected accuracy of milliarcseconds of arc. The radiometer onboard is to measur...
Charles Roger Alcóck (born June 15, 1951) is a British New Zealander astronomer. He is the current director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Read more
Kirill Y. Kondratyev (14 June 1920 - 1 May 2006) was a Russian atmospheric physicist. Kondratyev served as a member of the International Programme Committee for the World Conference on Climate Change, held in Moscow in 2003, where he presented a paper entitled "Uncertainties of Global Clima...
Akitsune Imamura (Kagoshima, 14 June, 1870 - 1 January, 1948) was a Japanese seismologist. Born in a poor family, he nonetheless managed to study at the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1899, in anticipation of the later theory of plate tectonics, he argued that the tsunami that struck the Sanriku c...