July 2011 Celestial Events & Space Research News
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July 2011 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
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Astronomy Today Sky Guide – July 2011
Night Sky – July
July 01 2011 – 08:54 UT –
New Moon
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July 01 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Partial Solar Eclipse, Visible in Indian Ocean
Asteroid 2002 EM7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.028 AU)
Asteroid 3267 Glo Closest Approach To Earth (1.829 AU)
July 01-04 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Stargazing Manitoulin, Manitoulin Island, Canada
July 02 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Comet 176P/LINEAR) –
Perihelion (2.575 AU)
Asteroid 2001 QP181 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
Asteroid 3353 Jarvis Closest Approach To Earth (0.764 AU)
July 03 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 5841 Stone Closest Approach To Earth (1.085 AU)
July 04 2011 – 15:00 UT –
Earth at Aphelion
(furthest from the Sun)
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July 04 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Comet 123P/West-Hartley –
Perihelion (2.129 AU)
Asteroid 21 Lutetia –
At Opposition (9.4 Magnitude)
“2011 Noctilucent Cloud Gallery”
July 04-08 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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European Week of Astronomy & Space Science (JENAM-2011), St. Petersburg, Russia
July 05 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 8575 Hawaii Closest Approach To Earth (2.391 AU)
Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.479 AU)
“Geomagnetic Storm In Progress”
July 06 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Asteroid 128523 Johnmuir Closest Approach To Earth (1.344 AU)
Asteroid 11246 Orvillewright Closest Approach To Earth (1.400 AU)
Asteroid 2011 GA55 flyby – miss distance 64.1 LD – size = 1.0 kilometres
Asteroid 11247 Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (1.937 AU)
Asteroid 1125 China Closest Approach To Earth (2.788 AU)
“Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way”
“Does Asteroid Vesta Have a Moon?”
July 07 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 17062 Bardot Closest Approach To Earth (2.030 AU)
“AstroBlog: The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere July 07 to 14”
“Exploding stars can make good dust factories”
“‘Tempest from hell’ seen on Saturn”
“ESA Euronews: Space Shuttle – the final voyage”
“Final countdown for space shuttle program”
July 08 2011 – 06:29 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
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July 08 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 16857 Goodall Closest Approach To Earth (1.789 AU)
“Last Space Shuttle mission ready for launch”
“Satellite’s final images focus on changing glaciers”
July 09 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Cassini, Distant Titan Flyby
Asteroid 951 Gaspra –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.213 AU)
Asteroid 17024 Costello Closest Approach To Earth (1.259 AU)
Asteroid 7818 Muirhead Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
July 10 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Cassini, Distant Flyby of Helene, Janus, Pan & Prometheus
Asteroid 2011 EZ78 flyby – miss distance 37.3 LD, size = 1.6 kilometres
Asteroid 6676 Monet Closest Approach To Earth (2.525 AU)
July 11 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Comet P/2010 T2 (PANSTARRS) –
Perihelion (3.740 AU)
Asteroid 2008 LV16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
“Dark Fireworks on the Sun”
July 12 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
“Celebrating 10 years of Artemis”
“Galileo getting ready”
July 13 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 1991 Darwin Closest Approach To Earth (0.811 AU)
Asteroid 24101 Cassini Closest Approach To Earth (2.278 AU)
July 14 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2003 YS117 flyby – miss distance 73.9 LD, size = 1.0 kilometres
Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.560 AU)
“AstroBlog: The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere July 14 to 21”
“NASA Spacecraft To Enter Large Asteroid’s Orbit On July 15”
“One ‘year’ on Neptune remains a mystery”
July 15 2011 – 06:40 UT –
The Full Buck Moon
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July 15 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Kuiper Belt Object 20000 Varuna –
At Opposition (44.587 AU)
July 16 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Dawn –
Vesta Arrival
Asteroid 4370 Dickens Closest Approach To Earth (1.062 AU)
Asteroid 2000 Herschel Closest Approach To Earth (1.763 AU)
Asteroid 5035 Swift Closest Approach To Earth (2.027 AU)
July 17 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Comet 69P/Taylor –
Perihelion (2.271 AU)
Asteroid 656 Beagle Closest Approach To Earth (2.434 AU)
July 17-22 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Conference: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2011, Niigata, Japan
July 18 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 4255 Spacewatch Closest Approach To Earth (2.435 AU)
“Shoemaker Impact Structure, Western Australia”
“Dawn Spacecraft Snaps Close-up Image of Asteroid Vesta”
July 19 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Comet P/2010 J5 (McNaught) –
Closest Approach To Earth (3.030 AU)
Comet C/2006 S3 (LONEOS) –
Closest Approach To Earth (4.554 AU)
July 20 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Mercury –
At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (27 Degrees)
Asteroid 51825 Davidbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.076 AU)
“Hubble Discovers a New Moon Around Pluto”
“Dawn spacecraft orbits asteroid Vesta”
July 21 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2187 La Silla Closest Approach To Earth (1.350 AU)
“Hubble detects fourth moon around Pluto”
“The Tribute to the Space Shuttle from the European astronauts”
“AstroBlog: The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere July 21 to 28”
“Space Shuttle final landing marks end of an era”
“Taxis in space”
July 22 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2007 RQ17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
Asteroid 2008 TC Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
Asteroid 5450 Sokrates Closest Approach To Earth (2.133 AU)
July 23 2011 – 05:02 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
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July 23 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2007 DD flyby – miss distance 9.3 LD, size = 31 metres
Asteroid 2007 DD Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
July 24 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare Closest Approach To Earth (1.713 AU)
Asteroid 6227 Alanrubin Closet Approach To Earth (1.731 AU)
July 25 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 532 Herculina –
At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
Asteroid 4149 Harrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.531 AU)
Asteroid 1288 Santa Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU)
July 26 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2003 BK47 flyby – miss distance 77.6 LD – size = 1.0 kilometres
Asteroid 9880 Stegosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.440 AU)
“Enceladus rains water onto Saturn”
July 27 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Moon Occults Mars
Asteroid 9 Metis –
At Opposition (9.6 Magnitude)
“New uses for Space Station”
July 28 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 1865 Cerberus –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.504 AU)
Asteroid 508 Princetonia Closest Approach To Earth (2.176 AU)
“Trojan asteroid discovered in Earth orbit”
“AstroBlog: The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere July 28 to August 04”
“Mars mission targets Gale Crater”
July 29 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Asteroid 3000 Leonardo Closest Approach To Earth (1.158 AU)
Asteroid 43844 Rowling Closest Approach To Earth (1.457 AU)
July 30 2011 – 18:40 UT –
New Moon
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July 30 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2004 Lexell Closest Approach To Earth (1.230 AU)
July 31 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
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August 2011 Celestial Events & Space Research News
August 2011 SkyMaps and Sky Guides NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL August 1st
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August 2011 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
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Astronomy Today Sky Guide – August 2011
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August 01 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Cassini, Distant Flyby of Helene, Titan, Telesto, Methone & Rhea
Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
Comet 48P/Johnson Closest –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.325 AU)
Asteroid 2 Pallas –
At Opposition (9.5 Magnitude)
Asteroid 4 Vesta –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.227 AU)
Asteroid 1103 Sequoia Closest Approach To Earth (0.815 AU)
Asteroid 2063 Bacchus Closest Approach To Earth (0.902 AU)
Asteroid 17059 Elvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.342 AU)
Asteroid 310 Margarita Closest Approach To Earth (1.874 AU)
“Dawn’s Smooth Move”
August 02 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 4433 Goldstone Closest Approach To Earth (1.118 AU)
August 03 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 10051 Albee Closest Approach To Earth (1.315 AU)
“Trojan asteroid in Earth’s orbit”
August 04 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 88292 Bora-Bora Closest Approach To Earth (0.673 AU)
Asteroid 2991 Bilbo Closest Approach To Earth (0.838 AU)
Asteroid 1704 Wachmann Closest Approach To Earth (1.336 AU)
“Big splat could explain Moon’s far side”
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere August 04 to August 11”
“Space special with NASA astronaut Dr Gregory Chamitoff”
“Salt Water May Flow on Mars”
August 05 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 4 Vesta –
At Opposition (5.6 Magnitude)
Asteroid 6758 Jesseowens Closest Approach To Earth (1.570 AU)
Asteroid 3808 Tempel Closest Approach To Earth (1.583 AU)
“Mars’ northern polar regions in transition”
August 05-08 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Manitoulin Star Party, Manitoulin Island, Canada
August 06 2011 – 11:08 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
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August 06 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Asteroid 4769 Castalia –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.463 AU)
Asteroid 2597 Arthur Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
“Monash student helps explain a mystery of the universe”
August 07 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Dawn, Vesta Science Phase Begins
Asteroid 1566 Icarus –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.909 AU)
Asteroid 9770 Discovery Closest Approach To Earth (1.370 AU)
August 08 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 1718 Namibia Closest Approach To Earth (0.755 AU)
August 09 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 5891 Gehrig Closest Approach To Earth (1.432 AU)
Asteroid 4628 Laplace Closest Approach To Earth (1.919 AU)
“ESA Envisat: Japan tsunami caused icebergs to break off in Antarctica”
“Spaceships, Meteors, and Moonlight”
2011 Perseids Meteor Shower
VIDEO
August 10 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
“StarStuff Audio Report: Water may flow on Mars”
August 11 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere August 11 to August 18”
August 11-18 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Beijing, China
August 12 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Perseids Meteor Shower Peak information
Cloudy or Raining?: LISTEN to the Perseid meteors on SpaceWeather Radio
Perseids 2011: SkyMap from the International Meteor Organization
Perseids 2011: LIVE visual data quicklook from the IMO
Asteroid 6030 Zolensky Closest Approach To Earth (2.045 AU)
Asteroid 3259 Brownlee Closest Approach To Earth (2.401 AU)
August 13 2011 – 18:57 UT –
The Full Sturgeon Moon
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August 13 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 69230 Hermes –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.629 AU)
Asteroid 5000 IAU Closest Approach To Earth (1.171 AU)
Asteroid 10204 Turing Closest Approach To Earth (1.889 AU)
August 14 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2022 West Closest Approach To Earth (1.620 AU)
August 15 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
Asteroid 349 Dembowska –
At Opposition (9.7 Magnitude)
Asteroid 1762 Russell Closest Approach TO Earth (1.793 AU)
August 16 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Comet C/2009 Y1 (Catalina) –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.327 AU)
Kuiper Belt Object 2004 –
At Opposition (36.044 AU)
“NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid”
August 17 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2011 OJ45 flyby – miss distance 4.6 LD – size = 29 metres
“Looking Down on a Shooting Star”
August 18 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 1154 Astronomia Closest Approach To Earth (2.208 AU)
“StarStuff: Antimatter belt surrounds Earth”
“First 3D video transmission live from space”
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere August 18 to August 25”
“Spacecraft Sees Solar Storm Engulf Earth”
“Space oddities”
August 19 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2688 Halley Closest Approach To Earth (1.836 AU)
August 20 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
August 21 2011 – 21:54 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
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August 21 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Comet 97P/Metcalf-Brewington –
Perihelion (2.597 AU)
Asteroid 6336 Dodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.341 AU)
Asteroid 1225 Ariane Closest Approach To Earth (1.359 AU)
August 22 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Neptune –
At Opposition
Comet P/2004 HC18 (LINEAR) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)
Comet 95P/Chiron –
Closest Approach To Earth (15.859)
Asteroid 2009 AV flyby – miss distance 49.7 LD, size = 1.1 kilometres
Asteroid 17744 Jodiefoster Closest Approach To Earth (0.657 AU)
Asteroid 3355 Onizuka Closest Approach To Earth (1.225 AU)
Asteroid 671 Carnegia Closest Approach To Earth (2.202 AU)
August 23 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Cassini, Distant Flyby of Epimetheus & Atlas
Comet 228P/LINEAR –
Perihelion (3.430 AU)
Comet 158P/Kowal-LINEAR –
Closest Approach To Earth (3.598 AU)
Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.391 AU)
“How can galaxies collide if the universe is expanding?”
August 24 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
August 2011 Aurora Gallery
Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
Comet 9P/Tempel –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.584 AU)
Asteroid 1578 Kirkwood Closest Approach To Earth (3.059 AU)
“Discovered: Stars as Cool as the Human Body”
August 25 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Cassini, Distant Flyby of Hyperion
Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.160 AU)
Asteroid 2005 QQ87 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)
Kuiper Belt Object 225088 (2007 OR10) –
At Opposition (85.390 AU)
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere August 25 to September 01”
“Sunspot Breakthrough”
“Progress 44 fails to reach orbit”
August 25-31 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Heart of America Star Party 2011, Butler, Missouri
August 26 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2007 UT3 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
Asteroid 793 Arizona Closest Approach To Earth (1.506 AU)
August 27 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 5731 Zeus –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.624 AU)
August 28 2011 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for the last 24 hours
Asteroid 2002 JR100 Near-Earth Flyby (0.051 AU)
Asteroid 2010 JW34 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
Asteroid 4238 Audrey Closest Approach To Earth (1.552 AU)
“Apollo rocks reveal Moon is younger” – audio report
August 29 2011 – 03:04 UT –
New Moon
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Asteroid 30440 Larry Closest Approach To Earth (1.954 AU)
“Impacts may spread life to other planets”
August 30 2011 –
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“The Milky Way’s mad scientists”
August 31 2011 –
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Comet 213P/Van Ness –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.201 AU)
“Progress 44 accident and its consequences for Space Station”
“ESA Bulletin 147 – August 2011”
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As of today there are 1244 Potentially Hazardous Earth-Crossing Asteroids
Asteroid 6471 Collins Closest Approach To Earth (1.698 AU)
Asteroid 73491 Robmatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.970 AU)
Asteroid 2006 SQ372 Closest Approach To Earth (24.005 AU)
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere September 01 to September 08”
“ESA Video Report: Welcome to the blue light zone of Mars500”
“StarStuff: Diamond ‘planet’ catches astronomers’ eyes”
September 02 2011 –
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Comet C/2010 G2 (Hill) –
Perihelion (1.981 AU)
Asteroid 192 Nausikaa –
At Opposition (8.3 Magnitude)
“Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express”
“Dwarf Planet Mysteries Beckon to New Horizons”
September 03 2011 –
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Mercury –
At Its Greatest Western Elongation (18 Degrees)
“GRAIL to map interior of the Moon”
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September 04 2011 –
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Asteroid 1430 Somalia Closest Approach To Earth (1.087 AU)
September 05 2011 –
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September 06 2011 –
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Asteroid 2008 EK1 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)
September 07 2011 –
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“GRAIL and the Mystery of the Missing Moon”
“StarStuff: Star discovery defies logic”
September 08 2011 –
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“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere September 08 to September 15”
“Earth’s gold fell from the sky”
September 09 2011 –
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September 10 2011 –
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September 11 2011 –
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September 12 2011 – 09:27 UT –
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September 12 2011 –
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Cassini, Titan Flyby
Asteroid 12818 Tomhanks Closest Approach To Earth (1.622 AU)
Asteroid 1268 Libya Closest Approach To Earth (3.196 AU)
“ERS satellite missions complete after 20 years”
September 13 2011 –
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Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pandora, Enceladus & Janus
Asteroid 2062 Aten –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.586 AU)
Asteroid 10792 Ecuador Closest Approach To Earth (1.803 AU)
“Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution”
September 14 2011 –
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Cassini, Distant Flyby of Methone, Pallene & Telesto
Asteroid 3949 Mach Closest Approach To Earth (1.274 AU)
“StarStuff: Twins fly to the Moon”
September 15 2011 –
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“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere September 15 to September 22”
“Kepler Discovers a Planet with Two Suns”
September 16 2011 –
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Cassini, Distant Flyby of Hyperion
Asteroid 1991 TF3 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
“Cool Video: Dawn Flies Around Vesta”
“‘Star Wars’ planet found”
September 17 2011 –
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Asteroid 1 Ceres –
At Opposition (7.6 Magnitude)
Asteroid 192 Nausikaa –
At Opposition (8.3 Magnitude)
September 18 2011 –
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Asteroid 2007 VB138 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
Asteroid 2003 QC10 flyby – miss distance 50 LD – size = 1.2 kilometres
Asteroid 132524 APL Closest Approach To Earth (1.055 AU)
September 19 2011 –
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September 2011 Aurora Gallery
Asteroid 472 Roma Closest Approach To Earth (1.465 AU)
Asteroid 2004 SV55 flyby – miss distance 67.5 LD – size = 1.2 kilometres
Asteroid 25399 Vonnegut Closest Approach To Earth (1.810 AU)
Asteroid 232 Russia Closest Approach To Earth (1.944 AU)
“The Secret Lives of Solar Flares”
September 20 2011 – 13:39 UT –
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September 20 2011 –
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Asteroid 2011 SQ32 flyby – miss distance 7.5 LD – size = 44 metres
“Countdown to Europe’s first Soyuz launch under way”
September 21 2011 –
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Asteroid 2009 UR5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
Asteroid 2011 SK68 flyby – miss distance 5.8 LD – size = 18 metres
Asteroid 1501 Baade Closest Approach To Earth (1.014 AU)
Asteroid 1777 Gehrels Closest Approach To Earth (1.639 AU)
September 22 2011 –
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Asteroid 5738 Billpickering Closest Approach To Earth (2.413 AU)
Asteroid 2007 TD flyby – miss distance 6.2 LD – size = 58 metres
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere September 22 to September 29”
“Exploring an asteroid with the Desert RATS”
September 23 2011 – 09:04 UT –
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September 23 2011 –
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Asteroid 2007 TD flyby – miss distance 3.8 LD, size = 58 metres
Asteroid 2007 TD Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
Asteroid 9133 d’Arrest Closest Approach To Earth (1.184 AU)
“Seeing Equinoxes and Solstices from Space”
September 24 2011 –
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As of today there are 1250 Potentially Hazardous Earth-Crossing Asteroids
Asteroid 13801 Kohlhase Closest Approach To Earth (1.986 AU)
September 25 2011 –
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Uranus –
At Opposition
Asteroid 9769 Nautilus Closest Approach To Earth (1.495 AU)
September 26 2011 –
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Asteroid 5029 Ireland Closest Approach To Earth (1.683 AU)
“CME gives a 25% chance of geomagnetic storms some time today”
“The Classification of X-ray Solar Flares”
“ESA Euronews: A satellite’s story”
September 27 2011 – 11:09 UT –
New Moon
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September 27 2011 –
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Asteroid 2011 SE58 flyby – miss distance 0.6 LD – size = 13 metres
Asteroid 8353 Megryan Closest Approach To Earth (2.055 AU)
September 28 2011 –
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Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
Asteroid 2009 SH2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
September 29 2011 –
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Comet 48P/Johnson –
Perihelion (2.301 AU)
Asteroid 2011 SO5 flyby – miss distance 5.6 LD – size = 34 metres
Asteroid 3356 Resnik Closest Approach To Earth (1.234 AU)
“The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater”
“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere September 29 to October 06”
“ESA spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole”
September 30 2011 –
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Comet 36P/Whipple –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.119 AU)
Asteroid 6433 Enya Closest Approach To Earth (0.983 AU)
Asteroid 991 McDonalda Closest Approach To Earth (1.820 AU)
“Galileo In Orbit Validation phase”
“Particle discovery overtakes speed of light”
“ESA centrifuge opens door to high-gravity worlds”
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