... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

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... 2001 December 24 . Asteroid 1998 WT24 Passes Near Earth . ... Passing well outside the orbit of our Moon, Asteroid 1998 WT24 posed no danger, but became bright enough to see with binoculars and to track with radar . ... Every few years, an asteroid will actually pass inside the orbit of the Moon. Large impact features on the Earth are testaments to asteroids or comets that actually impacted the Earth in the distant past. ... About APOD | ...

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... Credit Copyright: Green Bank Radio Telescope , Arecibo Radio Telescope Explanation: Asteroid 2007 TU24 passed by the Earth yesterday, posing no danger. ... The passing was not very unusual -- small rocks strike Earth daily, and in 2003 a rock the size of a bus passed inside the orbit of the Moon, being detected only after passing . ... 2003 2004 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: asteroid - Earth . Publications with words: asteroid - Earth . ...

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... Arecibo Observatory took radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon as the space rock sailed safely past earth. ... Both the asteroid and its moon passed 6 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from earth. ... Radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 (bottom) and its satellite (top) on June 6. ... Radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 (center) and its satellite (bottom left) on June 7. ... Radar image from June 7 showing the satellite moving past the primary. ...

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... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .?а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Dubbed simply "3753", it orbits the Sun at almost the same distance as the Earth does. ... So imagine 3753 is in an orbit just smaller than the Earth. ... Since the Earth has given the tiny asteroid extra energy, the asteroid actually moves farther out from the Sun. ... Since asteroid 3753 is in a larger orbit, it slows down, and is now moving slower than the Earth. ...

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... The most spectacular view however is from space, where large areas of aurora can be observed simultaneously, even the entire polar cap. ... Such pictures often show a continuous ring of aurora around the polar cap (picture above), caused mostly by electrons leaking out along magnetic field lines, from the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetic tail. ... Field lines from the auroral oval are believed to lead to the plasma sheet. ... A near-Earth circular polar orbit has many uses. ...

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... The most spectacular view however is from space, where large areas of aurora can be observed simultaneously, even the entire polar cap. ... Such pictures often show a continuous ring of aurora around the polar cap (picture above), caused mostly by electrons leaking out along magnetic field lines, from the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetic tail. ... Field lines from the auroral oval are believed to lead to the plasma sheet. ... A near-Earth circular polar orbit has many uses. ...

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Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

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• http://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/select/asteroids/yu55/20111108/yu55_20111109_wp.pdf

... Transits do not happen every time Mercury passes between the Earth and Sun because their orbits are not in exactly the same plane, as we will see in this activity. ... Transits of Mercury occur at only two times during the year (but not every year). ... Can you tell which two months the orbits of Earth and Mercury are in line with the Sun? _____________________ and ________________________ [pic] ----------------------- ( Transits of Mercury occur at only two times during the year (but not every year...

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Top: 2003 YN 107's orbit plotted from 1981 to 2026 and centered on its current quasi-stable episode, which ends in 2006. Red indicates that the object is in the evening sky, black indicates its location in the morning sky. The asteroid is orbiting the Sun, but its path is greatly perturbed when it passes close to Earth. The diagram plots its path in a coordinate system that follows Earth. ... The size of the Earth is exaggerated. ...

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КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ ЯНВАРЯ 2000 ГОДА . ... Jan 01 - Year 2000 . Jan ?? ... Jan 01 - Asteroid 1996 AX1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU) . ... Jan 03 - Asteroid 3745 Petaev Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU) . ... Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU) . ... Jan 08 - Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.915 AU) . ... Jan 12 -[Image][Dec 02] Asteroid 1999 WA2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU) . ... Jan 14 - Mercury Occults 53 Sgr (6.9 Magnitude Star) . ...

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... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

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... NASA Asteroid Orbiter . ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

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Evolution of Apophis Orbit for 1000 Years and New Space Targets . ... It will be its closest approach to Earth during the next 1000 years. ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), evolution of Apophis orbit, new space targets, uncertainty of Apophis trajectories, imperfections in determination methods, differential equations, new numerical methods, Apophis' closest approach to Earth, transforming Apophis' orbit to an Earth satellite orbit. ...

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This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. Eight years after the passage of Comet Halley in early 1986, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have succeeded in obtaining an image of this famous object at a distance of no less than 2,820 million km from the Sun. ... The image shows the 6 x 15 km avocado-shaped nucleus as an extremely faint point of light without any surrounding dust cloud. ... This observation was made with the ESO 3.58 metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ...

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... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

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... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

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... Submitted by Al Takeda on 02/17/2013 21:45:36 . Asteroid 2012 DA14 . Asteroid 2012 DA14 made a close pass to the Earth on February 15, 2013. ... This movie was produced using the ATMoB's 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope located in the Clamshell observatory. ... Even though my exposure was 1-second in duration, 2012 DA14 was easy to see and the Friday night DVD class members were able to see it in real time. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... July 22, 2009 - The X-ray Solar Eclipse . The Russian TESIS (FIAN) Solar Observatory has transmitted observations back to Earth of the solar eclipse made on July 22nd, 2009. ... And 4 hours later, when almost all the inhabitants of the Earth had already said goodbye to the eclipse, TESIS telescopes captured images of the second deepest transit of the Moon across the Sun ( film 1.2 MB, wmv format ). ... July 20, 2009 - The TESIS Observatory will observe two solar eclipses from space . ...

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