Week 11, 2022: Asteroid Discovered 2 Hours Before Earth Impact!
Asteroid 2022 EB5, two hours before Earth impact, 2022-Mar-11
On March 11, 2022, a 2-meter wide asteroid, named 2022 EB5, was spotted by the Fiskesteteu Observatory in Hungary just two hours before Earth impact, the fifth such object discovered. It burned up on the atmosphere just north of Iceland at 21:00 UTC the same day
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Newest Addons of the Week
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting this week (Mar 13 - 19, 2022) by category
Asteroids & NEOs
2 Pallas, one of the largest known main-belt asteroids
- 2 Pallas by Jestr
- 2063 Bacchus by Jestr
Exoplanets
The planets of Kepler-47
- 59 Virginis by SevenSpheres
- Kepler-18 by SpaceStalker
- Kepler-19 by SpaceStalker
- Kepler-25 by SpaceStalker
- Kepler-47 by fyr02 and trappistplanets
- Kepler-1115 by fyr02
- Omega Serpentis by Gurren Lagann
- PSR B1957+20 by SevenSpheres
Galaxies
Sextans A, a small irregular galaxy 4.3 million light-years away from the Milky Way
Planets & Moons
Jupiter becoming uncanny? Nope, that's just its true color map in 2020, and the other viewed in radio waves
- Jupiter (2020) by MrSpace43
- Jupiter (Radio) by Askaniy
Updates
Space Debris
A spent S-IVB rocket stage in heliocentric orbit
- 2020 SO by Art Blos
- S-IVB Apollo stages by DaveBowman2001 and gironde
Spacecraft
Salyut 7 during the visit of Soyuz T-15, May 1986
- ACRIMSAT by toutatis
- AIM by toutatis
- Almaz-T by DaveBowman2001
- Mars Observer by toutatis
- Neil Gehrels Swift by toutatis
- Salyut 1 by linuxman
- Salyut 3 and 5 by DaveBowman2001 and linuxman
- Salyut 4 by DaveBowman2001 and linuxman
- Salyut 6 by DaveBowman2001, gironde, and linuxman
- Salyut 7 by DaveBowman2001, Jack Higgins, gironde, and linuxman
- Sentinel-6A by gironde
- Venera 9 to 10 (Orbiters) by Jack Higgins, SpaceExplorer
- Venera 9 to 14 (Landers) by DaveBowman2001
Stars
The two stars of Epsilon Aurigae
- Epsilon Aurigae by Edasich
Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs)
- Dwarf Planets by Snowfall-The-Cat, Kexitt, MrSpace43, and JCP-JohnCarlo
Other news: What's new in Celestia 1.5.3