* Astronomy

Many human 'prototypes' coexisted in Africa Fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago, researchers say. The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans co-existed in Africa. The research adds to a growing body of evidence that...

Possible meteorite touches down here A local woman is still in shock after finding what she and members of the astronomy club feel is an honest-to-goodness meteorite in her backyard this long weekend. Cindy Beck says her Sunday morning started like any other, with the dogs wanting to go outside. Sho...

Orbital elements: C/2011 Q1 (PANSTARRS) T 2012 Oct. 25.93124 TT MPC q 3.1997345 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 213.60045 +0.85914703 -0.45208756 Node 164.96830 +0.19228976 +0.71939817 e 1.0 Incl. 67.58399 -0.47422677 -0.52733586 From 24 observations 2011 Aug. 20-22. MPEC 2011 - Q12 Comet C/2011 Q...

Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel FRS (August 9, 1896, Berlin - February 16, 1980, Marburg) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions: The Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions and the Hückel method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calcul...

William Alfred "Willy" Fowler (August 9, 1911 - March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983. He should not be confused with the British astronomer Alfred Fowler. His seminal paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars (Reviews of Modern P...

Leonidas (died 20 August 480 BC) was a hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Heracles, possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery. He is notable for his leadership at the Battle of T...

The International Day of the World's Indigenous People is observed on August 9 each year to promote and protect the rights of the worlds indigenous population. Read more

Luna 24 (Ye-8-5M series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 24. The last of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the Luna 24 probe was the third Soviet mission to retrieve Lunar soil samples from the moon of earth (the first two missions returning samples were...

The Mars program was a series of unmanned spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1973. The spacecraft were intended to explore Mars, and included flyby probes, landers and orbiters. Mars 7 successfully lifted off on August 9, 1973, into an intermediate Earth orbit on a Proton SL-1...

On August 9, 1965, 53 contract workers were killed in a fire in the Titan missile silo outside Searcy, Arkansas. It was one of the largest industrial accidents in US history. Read more

"Fat Man" is the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945. Read more

Eta-Eridanids meteor shower in the constellation Eridani, 10th August, 2010. ZHR=6.0 Velocity=65.0km/s (rapid) Radiant: RA=3.0h/45° Dec=-12.9° (J2000)

Title: Volumes of Cryptomafic Deposits on the Western Limb of the Moon: Implications for Lunar Volcanism Authors: Irene Antonenko Originally, the Moon was thought to consist of light, highland regions and dark, mare regions. The identification of dark-haloed craters has shown that some high...

80mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam

A University of Florida-led sky survey that may double the number of known planets outside the solar system is part of a major new survey program announced today at the American Astronomical Societys annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, slated to begin mid-year and end...