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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on Mercury. Chesterton for a 37.23-km-wide crater located at 88.3°N, 134.5°W. The feature was named in honour of the English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936).

Title: The old globular cluster system of NGC 4365: new VLT/FORS2 spectra Authors: A. L. Chies-Santos (Nottingham), S. S. Larsen (Nijmegen), M. Kissler-Patig (Gemini) We present new spectroscopic observations of a sample of globular clusters (GCs) in the Virgo Cluster elliptical NGC4365. The...

Orbital elements: 2012 RN15 Earth MOID = 0.0460 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 22.48235 (2000.0) P Q n 0.60486886 Peri. 157.45823 +0.87465969 +0.48091771 a 1.3847198 Node 172.83867 -0.48469284 +0.86938775 e 0.2517480 Incl. 29.15545 -0.00657847 -0.11350376 P 1.63 H 24....

Wallasea Island nature reserve project construction begins Construction work has begun on Europe's largest man-made nature reserve, located in Essex. Wallasea Island is being transformed from farmland into a 670-hectare wetland. The site is using 4.5 million tonnes of earth excavated from th...

Coverage Set For Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Rotation Over the next several weeks, NASA Television will provide coverage of the departure of three crew members from the International Space Station and prelaunch, launch and arrival activities of three new residents. Coverage will begin Wedne...

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on September 17, 1959. Read more

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on September 17, 1959. Read more

Annular Solar Eclipse of September 17, 1811 Read more

Annular Solar Eclipse of September 17, 1811 Read more

Title: observations of the solar eclipse of 1876, September 17 Authors: Tebbutt, J. Read more

Title: Plutino 15810 (1994 JR1), an accidental quasi-satellite of Pluto Authors: C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos In the solar system, quasi-satellites move in a 1:1 mean motion resonance going around their host body like a retrograde satellite but their mutual separation is well bey...

Orbital elements: 2012 RL15 Earth MOID = 0.0772 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 242.37280 (2000.0) P Q n 1.20098149 Peri. 334.09550 -0.84526671 -0.53159773 a 0.8765537 Node 173.01482 +0.53398353 -0.84407548 e 0.2938166 Incl. 26.42008 +0.01964125 +0.07028822 P 0.82 H 24...

Typhoon Sanba is forecast to make landfall in Okinawa (26.3 N, 127.8 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 68 hours probability for TS is 55% in about 68 hours The typhoon is currently located at 15.6°N, 129.5°E

Orbital elements: 2002 PC11 Earth MOID = 0.2560 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 5.71234 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29812237 Peri. 142.83664 +0.98413925 -0.16928602 a 2.2192506 Node 226.99887 +0.14029568 +0.92567003 e 0.4359015 Incl. 4.15821 +0.10856827 +0.33834486 P 3.31 H 19.9 G...

John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 - 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer. Read more

Thomas Patten Stafford (born September 17, 1930) is a retired American Air Force Lieutenant general and former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard two Gemini space flights; and in 1969 was the commander of Apollo 10, the second manned mission to orbit the Moon and the first to fly a lunar module there. Rea...

Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 - September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane. He was a passenger on an aircraft piloted by Orville Wright. Read more