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Orbital elements: 2013 HR11 Earth MOID = 0.2981 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 55.64062 (2000.0) P Q n 0.34471077 Peri. 6.02896 -0.53724954 -0.83691807 a 2.0144948 Node 116.51138 +0.76886251 -0.53693632 e 0.3634129 Incl. 6.70964 +0.34671801 -0.10614863 P 2.86 H 19.5 G 0....

Orbital elements: 2013 HM11 Earth MOID = 0.1254 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 225.65995 (2000.0) P Q n 1.16464805 Peri. 333.39263 +0.96577083 -0.03547002 a 0.8946907 Node 32.04773 +0.21682202 +0.65415618 e 0.3697581 Incl. 28.96394 -0.14239002 +0.75552735 P 0.85 H 23.1...

Orbital elements: 2013 HP11 Earth MOID = 0.0307 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 352.00503 (2000.0) P Q n 0.76576308 Peri. 8.46937 -0.79368625 +0.60729310 a 1.1832407 Node 209.01729 -0.56232436 -0.75465379 e 0.1248166 Incl. 4.19187 -0.23206345 -0.24838024 P 1.29 H 25.5 G 0...

Orbital elements: 2013 HN11 Earth MOID = 0.1533 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 359.75094 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27560304 Peri. 144.02794 -0.91259193 +0.39803284 a 2.3385503 Node 59.68438 -0.39587339 -0.80294418 e 0.5105511 Incl. 6.21922 -0.10227526 -0.44367838 P 3.58 H 22.2 G...

Cosmic Impact: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashes into Jupiter Click to Play | View Details

Orbital elements: 2013 HK11 Earth MOID = 0.1924 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 347.84995 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30185857 Peri. 281.72889 +0.95214231 +0.09085346 a 2.2009003 Node 73.59000 +0.05564455 +0.88732358 e 0.9368627 Incl. 17.71204 -0.30054734 +0.45210896 P 3.27 H 20.7...

On June 27, 1997 the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft flew within 1200 km of asteroid Mathilde at 12:56 UT at 9.93 km/s, returning imaging and other instrument data. The flyby produced over 500 images which covered 60% of Mathilde's surface, as well as gravitational data allowing calculations of Mat...

Orbital elements: 2012 HP13 Earth MOID = 0.0007 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 226.64610 (2000.0) P Q n 1.01424053 Peri. 288.21737 +0.77726599 +0.58340163 a 0.9810898 Node 37.14109 -0.31904245 +0.68819112 e 0.1768496 Incl. 22.96589 -0.54228175 +0.43131835 P 0.97 H 24.1...

Orbital elements: C/2011 R1 (McNaught) T 2012 Nov. 13.23541 TT MPC q 2.6897310 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 296.64748 -0.07834397 -0.79787381 Node 221.55985 -0.21887742 -0.57115987 e 1.0 Incl. 115.71280 -0.97260213 +0.19280505 From 32 observations 2011 Sept. 3-5. MPEC 2011 - R20 Comet C/2011 Q3...

Meteor Falls in Argentina - Sunday 21st 2013

Taurus II is an expendable launch system being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation. It is a two stage vehicle designed to launch payloads weighing up to 6,500 kg into low-Earth orbit. It is scheduled to make its first flight in March 2011. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_II]Re...

Title: Ellipsoidal effect in the symbiotic star YY Her Authors: M. Wiecek, M. Mikolajewski, T. Tomov, E. Swierczynski, C. Galan, P. Wychudzki A new estimation of the orbital period of YY Her on the base of our and published observations is presented. Phased light curves in RI bands show evidently el...

Pinhole Camera Made From A Pumpkin

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Title: The HD 163296 Circumstellar Disk in Scattered Light: Evidence of Time-Variable Self-Shadowing Authors: John P. Wisniewski (1), Mark Clampin (1), Carol A. Grady (1,2), David R. Ardila (3), Holland C. Ford (4), David A. Golimowski (4), Garth D. Illingworth (5), John E. Krist (6); ((1) NASA G...