* Astronomy

Google earth file: meteorites.kmz (207kb, kmz) Meteorite falls from the Meteoritical Bulletin Database.

In 1872 two men began work on a lexicon of words of Asian origin used by the British in India. Since its publication the 1,000-page dictionary has never been out of print and a new edition is due out early next year. What accounts for its enduring appeal? Hobson-Jobson is the dictionary's short, and mys...

Orbital elements: 2011 WV134 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0234 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 355.68251 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21161636 Peri. 25.63636 -0.99729450 +0.06180573 a 2.7889232 Node 157.79836 -0.07104876 -0.94934381 e 0.6787344 Incl. 6.04546 +0.01886130 -0.30810125 P 4.66 H...

The Return of the KiwiMartians The KiwiMars crew returns to Carter Observatory for a special public event on Wednesday 18 July to share their experience of their time on "Mars". This is your chance to meet the crew and find out about their work and learn more about exploration of the Red Pla...

NASA Astronaut Mark Polansky Leaves Agency NASA astronaut Mark Polansky has left the agency. His last day with NASA was June 30. Polansky is a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He flew as a pilot on the STS-98 mission in 2001 and served as commander for STS-116 in 2006 and STS-127 in 2009. Polans...

The 4 - 9 metre wide asteroid 2006 BV39 will make a close pass (44.1 lunar distances, 0.1132 AU), travelling at 11.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th July, 2012 @ 02:49 UT ±05:52. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...

The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated Biblical paraphrase and world history that follows the story of human history related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. The Chronicle was first published in Latin on 12 July 1493 in the city of Nuremberg. Read...

Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. (July 12, 1913 - May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 together with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Kusch were able to precisely determine certain e...

Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (July 12, 1863 -July 5, 1906) was a German physicist specialisng in optics. He wrote a fundamental textbook integrating optics with Maxwell's theories of electromagnetism. Read more

Rick Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 - February 1, 2003) was a United States Air Force Colonel, an astronaut, and the space shuttle commander of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Read more

Orbital elements: C/2012 C2 (Bruenjes) T 2012 Mar. 12.84724 TT MPC q 0.8019135 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 62.95552 +0.54082156 +0.79897040 Node 117.75580 +0.62724377 -0.59138636 e 1.0 Incl. 162.71216 +0.56042599 -0.10912593 From 49 observations 2012 Feb. 11-12. MPEC 2012 - C44 Comet C/2012 C2...

Orbital elements: C/2010 H4 (Scotti) T 2014 Jan. 16.982 TT MPC q 3.75547 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 287.115 -0.344372 +0.929668 Node 38.079 +0.921693 +0.308270 e 1.0 Incl. 167.750 +0.178577 +0.201709 From 18 observations 2010 Apr. 20-22.[url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/mpec/K10/K10H41.ht...

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Hurricane Emilia formed in the eastern Pacific early Monday and is expected to become a major hurricane sometime Tuesday Read more

Surrey Satellite Technology group is exhibiting at the 22nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites in Utah, 11th-14th August. Located on stand 13, an experienced UK and US team will be on-hand throughout the conference to answer questions about the companys small satellite platforms, t...