Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered photographically by the husband and wife scientific team of Carolyn S. and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David H. Levy on March 24, 1993, using the 0.46-m (18-in.) ... Its discovery was a serendipitous product of their continuing search for near-Earth objects , and the 9 indicates that it was the ninth short-period comet (period less than 200 years) discovered by this team. ... In other words, the comet, or at least parts of it, could very well hit Jupiter. ...

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. Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia . Apparent Close Approaches of Near-Earth Asteroids to the Stars for April 2016 . By these observations it is possible to obtain the positions of asteroids with higher accuracy. This page includes the ephemerides of such phenomena for some observatories, namely: . Pulkovo . CrAO . Kourovskaya . Majdanak . Pulkovo Obs. Mountain Station . Mondy .

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Asteroid 2004 MN4 was discovered on the 19th of June 2004 by Roy Tucker, David Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the University of Hawaii Asteroid Survey from Kitt Peak Arizona. ... After a few days it was recognized that it would make several close approaches to Earth in the 21st century. ... These distances were calculated by the Near Earth Object Dynamic Site using data available up to 2005 February, to check for updates go to Near Earth Object Dynamic Site . ... PHA Close Approaches To The Earth . ...

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... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

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... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

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... 9.09.1999 . ... In astronomical parlance, an interior planet is at superior conjunction when it is located on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth. ... Water Found in Space Rock . ... Orbiting closer to the Sun than planet Earth, bright Venus always appears to be near the Sun's position in our sky and often shines near the horizon in twilight hours. ... Nearly four kilometers across, the huge rock known as 1999 JM8 silently passed only 8.5 million kilometers from the Earth in early August. ...

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... 2001 July 7 . A Close Encounter Of The Stellar Kind . Credit: Digitized Sky Survey , SkyView . Explanation: The unassuming star centered in this sky view will one day be our next door stellar neighbor. ... This future stellar encounter was discovered by researchers Joan Garcia-Sanchez and Robert Preston ( JPL ), and collaborators while studying stars in the solar neighborhood using data from the Hipparcos Astrometry Satellite . ... About APOD | ...

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... Artist?s conception of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, as seen from the Galileo spacecraft. At the time of the first impact, the comet fragments will be much farther apart than shown in this illustration. ... One orbit, computer May 18, 1993 by Syuichi Nakano, showed that the comet passed close to Jupiter in July 1992, and would pass within 45,000 kilometers of the center of Jupiter in July, 1994. ... The fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 move around Jupiter. ...

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... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

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This service is intended as an aid to visually observing close-approaching asteroids. ... By clicking on the column headers for "Object Name", "Maximum Brightness", and "Maximum Angular Speed", you can sort the list by those fields. ... When This is the predicted time when the asteroid will be closest to the Earth. ... This field shows red if an asteroid comes as close as the moon. ... PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) This does NOT mean that this is going to hit the Earth. ...

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... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

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Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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. Go Here for Hubble Ultra Deep Field . ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

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Proposal Identification No.: R2225 Date Received: 2006­Apr­18 18:23:13 Technical Page Proposal Type: Urgent General Category: Planetary Radar Observation Category: Solar System Total Time Requested: 6.0 Hours Proposal Title: Urgent Proposal for Arecibo Radar Imaging of near­Earth Asteroid 2006 GY2 ABSTRACT: We propose radar imaging of recently­discovered near­Earth asteroid 2006 GY2 during its close approach within 0.017 AU on 2006 May 15­16. ... Maybe Part of the observing run. ...

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... While there is practically no detector noise present at energies above , X-ray data below are considerably contaminated by noise events, which become more and more dominant towards the lowest transmitted energies (Fig. ... Investigations of 40 hours of in-orbit calibration data with the filter wheel closed, taken over a period of more than two years, showed that the noise properties vary with position and energy, but are fairly stable in time for most areas on the detector. ...

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... The proper procedure to set up the wind baffle and enclosure to be powered by the emergency generator in the event that both commercial and site emergency generator power is lost. ... The enclosure should be open with telescope in an un-stowed position. ... Wind baffle (WB) control power switch ; Location : ?; ... Enclosure power switch box ; Location : ?; ... Change the WB manual pendent connector in WB control box to ALT Axis Brundy, make sure the "pot" is at "000" and the palm switch is depressed...

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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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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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