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- | mp_category = {{nowrap|[[Near-Earth object|NEO]]{{·}}[[Apollo asteroid|Apollo]]}} ...{\sqrt{p}} \times 10^{-0.2H} \mathrm{km}.</math>}} Its closest approach to Earth was on 22 December 2022, at a distance of 0.0163 [[Astronomical unit|AU]].< ...4 KB (376 words) - 16:10, 6 October 2024
- | discovery_site = ''[[Low Earth orbit]]'' | mp_category = {{nowrap|[[Apollo asteroid|Apollo]]{{·}}[[Near-Earth object|NEO]]{{·}}[[Potentially hazardous object|PHA]]<ref name="jpldata" /> ...8 KB (960 words) - 18:25, 2 February 2025
- | [[Near-Earth object|NEO]] ...arth around 16 January 1981 when it passed about {{cvt|600000|km|mi}} from Earth.<ref name=jpldata/> It will return as a [[temporary satellite]] in December ...11 KB (1,509 words) - 21:39, 10 September 2024
- | mp_category = {{hlist | [[Near-Earth object|NEO]] | [[Apollo asteroid|Apollo]] }} ...ical Observatory|Sutherland]] on 7 August 2024, the day before approaching Earth at {{cvt|568500|km|mi}}.<ref name="MPC-object"/> ...13 KB (1,628 words) - 05:08, 24 February 2025
- | discoverer = [[Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research|LINEAR]] It was discovered on 5 April 2000, by the [[Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research|LINEAR]] program at [[Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental T ...12 KB (1,434 words) - 00:05, 19 January 2024
- {{Short description|Temporary satellite of Earth}} ...ellite|temporarily captured]] <ref name="MPEC-2020-D104"/>{{·}}[[co-orbital]] <ref name="Marcos2020"/> ...34 KB (4,351 words) - 19:01, 4 February 2025
- ...using the hyphenated names of the primary and major satellite (e.g. the "[[Earth-Moon system]]"). ...although some have been orbited by artificial satellites originating from Earth. ...41 KB (5,742 words) - 00:22, 13 September 2024
- ...nomers reported the possible capture of other interstellar objects in Near Earth Orbit (NEO) over the years.<ref name="UT-20230517" /><ref name="ARX-2023051 ...eprint=2403.05161 |class=astro-ph.EP}}</ref> and still other experts found Earth-related explanations for the purported meteorite impact instead.<ref name=" ...54 KB (7,198 words) - 07:42, 6 January 2025
- ...e is best known for his work on avoiding comet or asteroid collisions with Earth and on interstellar spacecraft propulsion. ===Comets and asteroids=== ...31 KB (4,025 words) - 18:22, 15 January 2025
- ...of this photograph, Borisov was {{convert|418|e6km|e6mi|abbr=unit}} from [[Earth]], similar to the average distance of the [[Ceres (dwarf planet)|asteroid C ...greater than 1 will have a negative semimajor axis, giving them a positive orbital energy – the smaller the perihelion distance, and the larger above 1 the ec ...59 KB (7,927 words) - 15:18, 2 February 2025
- ...Uranus]] and [[Neptune]]. Jupiter's diameter is about 11 times that of the Earth's and the Sun's diameter is about 10 times Jupiter's. The planets are not s {{cite book |last=Pennington |first=Jonathan T. |title=Heaven and earth in the Gospel of Matthew |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-9004162051 |year=2007 | ...65 KB (9,721 words) - 13:09, 16 February 2025
- ...object. According to the [[Deep Ecliptic Survey]], Gonggong is in a 3:10 [[orbital resonance]] with Neptune, in which it completes three orbits around the Sun ...]'', a Chinese water god responsible for chaos, floods and the tilt of the Earth. The name was chosen by its discoverers in 2019, when they hosted an online ...74 KB (9,249 words) - 11:02, 1 January 2025
- ...ings. He observed that the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 had very similar orbital elements, and he theorized that they were all the same comet. Halley predic ...Perseid meteors]] were fragments of [[Comet Swift–Tuttle]], based on their orbital similarities. ...167 KB (23,871 words) - 10:36, 17 February 2025
- ...substance to exist as a [[ice|solid]], liquid, and [[water vapor|gas]] on Earth's surface.{{sfn|Reece et al.|2013|p=44}} It is also the third most abundant Within the Earth's atmosphere and surface, the [[liquid phase]] is the most common and is th ...89 KB (12,858 words) - 15:52, 26 February 2025
- ...first to observe four of [[Saturn]]'s [[Natural satellite|moons]] and the co-discoverer of the Great Red Spot on [[Jupiter]] ...ic chronology by classifying the four main layers of the [[Crust (geology)|Earth's crust]]<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/33360/Giovanni-Ard ...45 KB (5,431 words) - 16:48, 25 January 2025
- ...a [[height#In aviation|height]] measured with respect to the underlying [[earth's surface|ground surface]]. This is as opposed to altitude/elevation [[abov * '''[[Aerocapture]]''' – is an [[Orbital maneuver|orbital transfer maneuver]] used to reduce the velocity of a spacecraft from a [[hy ...195 KB (28,602 words) - 22:16, 23 October 2024
- ...olar System Barycenter (@0)".)</ref><ref group=lower-alpha name=barycentre>Orbital elements refer to the Neptune barycentre and Solar System barycentre. These ...ts the Sun once every 164.8 [[julian year (astronomy)|years]] at an [[orbital distance]] of {{convert|30.1|AU|e9km e9mi|1|lk=in|abbr=off}}. It is named a ...147 KB (20,213 words) - 21:39, 27 February 2025
- ...f an orange circular object representing the Sun|Artist's concept of the [[Earth]] 5–7.5 billion years from now, when the [[Sun]] has become a [[red giant]] ...ch as whether [[Human extinction|humans will become extinct]], whether the Earth survives when the Sun expands to become a [[red giant]] and whether [[proto ...174 KB (23,751 words) - 02:21, 1 March 2025
- ...hat TRAPPIST-1 has a surface gravity approximately 177 times stronger than Earth's.}}{{sfn|Agol|Dorn|Grimm|Turbet|2021|p=1}} ...(constellation)|Aquarius]] about {{val|40.66}} [[light-year]]s away from [[Earth]], and has a surface temperature of about {{cvt|2566|K|C F|lk=on|round=10}} ...187 KB (25,955 words) - 17:28, 25 February 2025