Perigee and the full moon coincide!
127 light years away, and only planet in habitable zone is gas giant.
Pretty patterns, young craters!
400m wide rock coming closer than the Moon.
Watch it tonight!
Pictures from the Red Planet. (In black and white.)
Asteroid discoveries from 1980 to 2011
The best headline I've seen for this widely-posted story.
Not a very big one - less than 20m -but very close - less than 13000 km!
Be afraid of the next big solar storm!
Brilliant. And for once the background music is not too annoying.
The key medieval astronomical instrument.
Everyone's been linking to this, but it is tremendous news.
Copernican or Tychonian?
God, I used to dream about that sort of thing when I was ten!
Hot young planet, 8 times the mass of Jupiter and 330 AU from its sun; not much likelihood of it harbouring life I fear.
Presumably the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope will actually be 30m in length rather than aperture.
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