Newly discovered asteroid passes Earth
Asteroid 2018 BD was only discovered on 18 Jan, 2018 by the Catalina Sky Survey and slipped past the Earth at 0.2 times the distance […]
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Chaotic Blue Comet
Throughout Autumn 2017, Comet C/2016 R2 PanSTARRS has been watched closely as it showed some bizarre behavior. The icy object located beyond the orbit or […]
Geminid Meteor Shower 2017
On the night of December 13-14, 2017, the annual Geminid meteor shower peaks this month to grace the winter night sky with ‘shooting stars’. This […]
Leonid Meteor Shower 2017
This month the annual Leonid meteor shower returns once again to fill the night sky with ‘shooting stars’. This shower has become somewhat famous thanks […]
Orionid Meteor Shower 2017
One of the best meteor showers of the annual calendar occurs this weekend. The Orionids often produce very bright and fast meteors. The name is […]
Comet ASASSN1 – Circumpolar for Perihelion
Comet C/2017 O1 (ASASSN1) is now located between the constellations of Perseus and Auriga heading towards Camelopardalis (at the time of writing). This now places […]
Asteroid 2012 TC4 – Watch it Live
2012 TC4 is an asteroid measuring 20 meters in diameter earmarked to whiz past the Earth on Thursday, 12 October 2017 at an exceptionally close […]
Asteroid 2012 TC4 – A Close Encounter
2012 TC4 is an asteroid measuring 20 meters in diameter. The house sized space rock was discovered on October 4, 2012 by the Pan-STARRS observatory […]
Asteroid 3122 Florence Earth Flyby
Potentially hazardous asteroid 3122 (1981 ET 3) Florence (named after Florence Nightingale) was discovered back in March 1981 by American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring […]
New Comet ASAS-SN1 Discovered
Discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) on 19th July, 2017, Comet C/2017 O1 was shining at magnitude 15 in Cetus. The comet […]