Month: January 2014

This plot shows the range of possible locations where the small asteroid 2014 AA struck Earth's atmosphere early on January 2, 2014. Bill Gray / Project Pluto

Small Asteroid 2014 AA Hits Earth

General Articles / By astronomy / 4 January, 2014 4 January, 2014

This plot shows the range of possible locations where the small asteroid 2014 AA struck Earth’s atmosphere early on January 2, 2014. Bill Gray / Project Pluto Discovered on New Year’s Eve by a telescope in Arizona, a small asteroid struck Earth somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean — apparently unnoticed — about 25 hours …

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Jupiter Events Jan 2014 by Johan Retief

General Articles / By astronomy / 1 January, 2014 2 February, 2014

Greetings All Jupiter is in opposition on Sunday 5 January at 23h00 says my new copy of SGAS. It is then a mere 630 million kms from us. I have attached a distillation of the best Jupiter Events to observe during the month. For shadow transits, Io, is the closest moon to the planet and …

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M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31