* Astronomy

Sun 19.03.17: Image captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Canon eos350. Motorised EQ1 Mount. Prime focus, Baader solar filter, front mounted 100mm green filter. Cloudy and hazy sky. Moderate seeing.

The Tirupati (H6) meteorite fell in Andhra Pradesh, India, on the 20th March, 1934. A total mass of 230 g was recovered. 13° 38'N, 79° 25'E

Delta IV to Launch WGS-9 for the U.S. Air Force The ULA Delta IV rocket carrying the WGS-9 satellite for the U.S. Air Force is scheduled for no earlier than March 17, due to Eastern Range availability. The launch vehicle team is finalizing closure actions for the booster issue in support of final launc...

Tully Monster Still a Mystery This time last year, two teams of paleontologists announced that they had finally solved one of the most inscrutable mysteries in the history of life on Earth. The Tully Monster - a flat, bug-eyed, nozzle-nosed animal truly worthy of the title Monster - went from a 300 mi...

Title: Highly Variable Extinction and Accretion in the Jet-driving Class I Type Young Star PTF 10nvg (V2492 Cyg, IRAS 20496+4354) Authors: Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Adam A. Miller, Kevin R. Covey, John M. Carpenter, S.Bradley Cenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Philip Muirhead, William Fischer, Justin R...

ATel 10181: Spectroscopic Classification of SN 2017cfa as a Type IIP Supernova

The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2017 FJ will make a close pass (2.0 LD, 0.0051 AU) in the constellation Hercules, travelling at 9.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st March 2017 @ 15:04 UT ±00:02. Magnitude: 18.9 V See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, e...

The 9 - 20 metre wide asteroid 2017 FK will make a close pass (1.7 LD, 0.0045 AU) travelling at 9.86 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th March 2017 @ 12:00 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Image captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Canon EOS350.

Saturn Expand (59kb, 1024 x 768) 22:49 UTC, Thursday 13 March 2008 Exposure: 50 ms

Tonite: An H-IIA rocket launches from Tanegashima, Japan with IGS Radar 5; the 74 minute window opens at 1:20 UT. https://t.co/f4a6KcD8qs Dave Dickinson (@Astroguyz) March 16, 2017

ATel 10177: Swift/XRT detection of PS17bgn/2017bcc

The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967 causing an environmental disaster. On 18 March 1967, owing to a navi...

ATel 10176: ASASSN-17dm: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in AKARI J1006572-474345

The oldest mushroom ever discovered, encased in amber, is on sale for a mere US$100,000. The mushroom was discovered by Ron Buckley, a registered nurse and amateur fossil hunter in Florence, Kentucky. Buckley spotted it encased in a piece of Burmese amber that he had obtained from a Canadian import...