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An occultation of Mars by Venus on 13 October 1590 was observed by the German astronomer Michael Maestlin at Heidelberg. Read more

Orbital elements: 2012 TL123 Earth MOID = 0.0795 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 319.66786 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39298015 Peri. 104.26927 -0.64873808 -0.72140969 a 1.8459601 Node 30.78955 +0.37462823 -0.57987474 e 0.6938485 Incl. 28.25119 +0.66241422 -0.37856749 P 2.51 H 18...

Construction begins on State Museum's observatory[url=http://www.thestate.com/2012/10/12/2477239/constr...

Control your OWN telescope using the MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope Network Read more

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Cornwall UFO Research Group Presents Their 16th Annual U.F.O Conference 2012 on Saturday 13th October 2012 Truro College (Lecture Theatre) (Fal Building) College Road, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3XX Read more

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East Nusa Tenggara Volcano Erupts, Two Others on Alert Hundreds of villagers near Mount Rokatenda on Palue Island in Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, have been evacuated after the volcano erupted on Thursday. Two other volcanoes in the province are reportedly on alert as well. [url=http://www.theja...

Giant black holes lurking in survey data Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe. The black holes were previously undetected because the...

HRC Remembers Frank Kameny One year ago, the LGBT community lost equality pioneer Frank Kameny, a man whose tireless activism blazed a trail for the entire LGBT community. In 2009, the U.S. government issued a formal apology to Kameny for his dismissal as a U.S. government astronomer, calling his...

The Battle Mountain (L6) meteorite fell in Nevada, USA, on the 22nd August, 2012. A total mass of 1 Kg was recovered. 40° 40' 5"N, 117° 11' 21"W Spoiler The meteorite produced a fireball associated with a sonic bo...

Forget dangers from giant meteors: Earth is facing another threat from outer space. Scientists have come to the conclusion that two mysterious explosions in the 1990s were caused by bizarre cosmic missiles. The two objects were picked up by earthquake detectors as they tore through Eart...

Title: The GREGOR solar telescope on Tenerife Authors: Wolfgang Schmidt, Oskar von der Lühe, Reiner Volkmer, Carsten Denker, Sami Solanki, Horst Balthasar, Nazaret Bello Gonzalez, Thomas Berkefeld, Manuel Collados, Axel Hofmann, Franz Kneer, Andreas Lagg, Klaus Puschmann, Dirk Schmidt, Mi...

Ariel 1, also known as UK-1 and S-55, was the first British satellite, and the first satellite in the Ariel programme. Its launch in 1962 made the United Kingdom the third country to operate a satellite, after the Soviet Union and the USA. It was constructed in United States by NASA, under an agreement...