4 new asteroids discovered

Programmer/ March 1, 2018/ Asteroids, Minor Planet Center, NASA, NASA JPL, NEO, New Asteroid Alert, PHA

Asteroid 2018 DS1 is currently 16.30 lunar distances away. The close approach date is 2018-Mar-03 Asteroid 2018 DU1 is currently 5.09 lunar distances away. The close approach date is 2018-Mar-02 Asteroid 2018 DW1 is currently 3.87 lunar distances away. The close approach date is 2018-Mar-01 Asteroid 2018 DV1 is currently 0.29 lunar distances away. The close approach date is 2018-Mar-02 See them all here

Oumuamua’s true trajectory

Programmer/ February 3, 2018/ Asteroids, NASA, NEO, New Asteroid Alert, PHA

One of the defining moments in planetary astronomy in 2017 is that this is the year we discovered the first astronomical object to enter the Solar System from interstellar space. Now known as ‘Oumuamua (Hawaiian for “scout”), the object was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey team in Hawaii on October 19th. Over the next three weeks it was in turn

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