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Called 2024 MK, the space rock will make its closest approach to Earth Saturday morning, passing by at about three-quarters the distance from Earth to the moon. A 7,579-foot (2,310-meter) asteroid ...
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search. / 35.2028°N 111.6644°W / 35.2028; -111.6644. Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search ( LONEOS) was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by astronomer Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Tennessee. State Representative Joe E. Armstrong (D) convicted of falsifying tax returns. (2016) State Representative Curry Todd (R) from Collierville, pled guilty to possessing a loaded gun while DUI. He was sentenced to 48 hours in jail, one year of probation, fined, given community service, alcohol training, alcohol car locking device and ...
247 Eukrate. Eukrate ( minor planet designation: 247 Eukrate) is a rather large main-belt asteroid. It is dark and probably a primitive carbonaceous body. The asteroid was discovered by Robert Luther on March 14, 1885, in Düsseldorf. It was named after Eucrate, a Nereid in Greek mythology . In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the ...
June 27, 2024 at 7:40 AM. A former Tennessee lawmaker resigned from the Tennessee Human Rights Commissioner board this month following an internal investigation into remarks some colleagues ...
The 2024 Tennessee football recruiting class will put pen to paper today for the start of the early signing period. Here are the Vols' signees so far. ... This 2024 class enters signing day ranked ...
Aten asteroid. The Aten asteroids are a dynamical group of asteroids whose orbits bring them into proximity with Earth. By definition, Atens are Earth-crossing asteroids ( a < 1.0 AU and Q > 0.983 AU). [1] The group is named after 2062 Aten, the first of its kind, discovered on 7 January 1976 by American astronomer Eleanor Helin at Palomar ...
The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in the 1930s. They are Earth-crossing asteroids that have an orbital semi-major axis greater than that of the Earth (a > 1 AU) but perihelion distances less than the Earth's aphelion distance (q < 1.017 AU). [1] [2]