Vrouw Maria (Lady Mary) was a Dutch wooden two-masted merchant ship carrying a valuable cargo of art objects, captained by Raymund Lourens, that sank on October 9, 1771, in the outer archipelago of the municipality of Nagu, Finland, 11 kilometres south-east of the island of Jurmo. Read more
The Takayama Festivals in Takayama in Japan started in the 16th to 17th century. "The origins of the festivals are unknown"; however they are believed to have been started during the rule of the Kanamori family. Correspondence dated 1692 place the origin to 40 years prior to that date. On...
Hangul Day - also called Hangul Proclamation Day or Korean Alphabet Day - is a Korean national commemorative day marking the invention and the proclamation of hangul, the native alphabet of the Korean language, by King Sejong the Great. Read more
See planets at Observatory open house A rite of passage for many new astronomy enthusiasts is a "Messier Marathon," or staying up all night to view all 110 objects in the Messier Catalogue of Deep Sky Objects. Sunday, October 14, stargazers in north central Indiana will have good views of...
Orbital elements:
2012 TR5 Earth MOID = 0.0561 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 20.71015 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.50175377 Peri. 128.24471 +0.75820836 +0.65048931
a 1.5684678 Node 191.41347 -0.64611944 +0.74043729
e 0.3820693 Incl. 13.00713 -0.08746284 +0.16916346
P 1.96 H 25.5...
Title: Simulating Sinking Satellites with SUPERBOX-10 Authors: Reinhold Bien, Tobias Brandt, Andreas Just SUPERBOX-10 is the successor of SUPERBOX, a particle-mesh code where additional grids and sub-grids are applied to regions of high particle density. Previous limitations have been sol...
Sunspots 11586 (bottom) and 11585 captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar, Baader contrast and IR-cut filters Music via an Amiga 1200
Scientists at The University of Manchester and the Manchester Metropolitan University have carried out the first comparative scientific study of ancient spiders trapped in amber more than 30 millions years ago.
The study of fossilised spiders from the Baltic (Poland) and the Dominican (Ca...
Air Force Planned a flying saucer Recently declassified documents from the U.S. Air Force reveal a Cold War-era plan to build a round, vertical take-off and landing aircraft that can only be described as a flying saucer. The disk-shaped craft was designed to reach a top speed of Mach 4 and reach a ceil...
Excellent meteoritic Leonard Medal 2013 for Prof. Dr. Ahmed El Goresy He is recognised as an outstanding expert in extraterrestrial rocks, and an asteroid is even named after him: Prof. Dr. Ahmed El Goresy, who since 2005 has been a visiting researcher at the University of Bayreuth Bavarian Geoins...
Orbital elements:
2012 TQ5 Earth MOID = 0.0321 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 354.49860 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.48203474 Peri. 188.90641 +0.94843298 -0.31450001
a 1.6109565 Node 189.70509 +0.30335546 +0.93676831
e 0.3608711 Incl. 13.57057 +0.09192577 +0.15347596
P 2.04 H 25....
A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 23:45:26 (UTC) on Tueday, September 25, 2012, in the Gulf of California region, 76 km NNE of La Paz, Mexico, at a depth of 10.1 km. Location 24.8351°N, 110.152°W
A telescope in the mountains of Chile will give Clemson astronomers an extra eye on the sky as part of an agreement arranged with 10 American colleges and universities. The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA), of which Clemson is a member, has invested about $250,000 to refur...
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