New minor planets discovered today:

2014 CH14
discoverer: Pan-STARRS 1- Haleakala observatory
Semimajor axis: 2.437-2.537 AU
Perihelion: 1.286-1.295 AU
Aphelion: 3.611-3.758 AU
Eccentricity: 0.47-0.492
Inclination: 10.318-10.71 degrees
Period: 3.802-4.038 Years
Absolute magnitude: 19.6
Diameter: ~450 meters

Today's Astronomy anniversaries:

• Discoveries:
• None
•  Events:
• 1996 (18 years ago)- A Chinese rocket, carrying Intelsat 708, fails to launch and crashes in a nearby village.
• 2013 (1 year ago)- A meteor impacts Chelyabinsk, Russia, right before asteroid 367943 Duende (2012 DA14) makes a close approach to Earth. It is the largest asteroid impact on earth for over 100 years.
• Births:
• 1564 (450 years ago) Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, Italy
• 1851 (163 years ago) Spiru Haret, A Romanian-Armenian astronomer who founded the Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest, Romania, is born in Iaşi, Romania.
• 1935 (79 years ago) Roger B. Chaffee, a test pilot for the Apollo 1 program, is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Deaths:
• None

  
              Coming up later today:
An introduction to the blog's routine & the mysterious lines on Mars's moon, Phobos!