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'Meteorite' 'Meteor' generates early morning 911 queries Numerous 911 calls in Allegany and Mineral counties around 4:22 a.m. Tuesday apparently stemmed from a "meteorite passing through the area," according to Roger Bennett, acting director of Allegany County's 911 centre. [url...

Orbital elements: 2011 TA4 Earth MOID = 0.1000 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 348.48048 (2000.0) P Q n 0.18213939 Peri. 20.76087 +0.84749530 -0.52633635 a 3.0822425 Node 11.75285 +0.42691685 +0.59896430 e 0.6502500 Incl. 19.71554 +0.31542625 +0.60349964 P 5.41 H 21.0 G 0...

Title: GRB 110205A: Anatomy of a long gamma-ray burst Authors: B. Gendre (1), J.L. Atteia (2), M. Boër (3), F. Colas (4), A. Klotz (2), F. Kugel (5), M. Laas-Bourez (6), C. Rinner (5), J. Strajnic (7), G. Stratta (1), F. Vachier (4) ((1) ASDC, (2) Universite de Toulouse/IRAP, (3) OHP/CNRS, (4) IMCCE, (...

R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airship completed in 1929 as part of a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire. After some trial flights, and subsequent modifications to increase lifting capacity which in...

Title: A Possible Substellar Companion to the Intermediate-mass Giant HD 175679 Authors: Liang Wang, Bun'ei Sato, Gang Zhao, Yujuan Liu, Kunio Noguchi, Hiroyasu Ando, Hideyuki Izumiura, Eiji Kambe, Masashi Omiya, Hiroki Harakawa, Fan Liu, Xiaoshu Wu, Yoichi Takeda, Michitoshi Yoshida, Eiic...

University of Texas-led team discovers unusual multi-planet solar system with NASA'S Kepler spacecraft A team of researchers led by Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin has used NASA's Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and tw...

First Spectroscopic Observations Using an Electron-Multiplying CCD Astronomers at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) have recently used, for the first ever time, an electron-multiplying detector for astronomical spectroscopic observations, allowing a high-time resolution analy...

Mundus patet harvest feast on the 24th August. A lapis manalis (Latin: "stone of the Manes") was either of two sacred stones used in the Roman religion. One covered a gate to Hades, abode of the dead; Festus called it ostium Orci, "the gate of Orcus". The other was used to make rai...

Calcutta cyclone of the 5th October 1864 Read more Kolkata has been hit by several cyclones, including the cyclones of 1737 and 1864 that killed thousands of people. Read more

The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, at a magnitude 7.3 Mw, occurred on 6 October 1948 near Ashgabat, in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. The earthquake is considered to be the 6th deadliest earthquake in the history of humankind. Read more

The Saxby Gale was the name given to a tropical cyclone which struck eastern Canada's Bay of Fundy region on the night of October 4-5, 1869. Read more

Giorgio Abetti (5 October 1882 - 24 August 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer. Giorgio Abetti is noted for having led expeditions to observe solar eclipses to Siberia (1936) and Sudan (1952). The crater Abetti on the Moon and asteroid 2646 Abetti are named to honour both him and his father. Read mo...

The University of Kiel (German Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, CAU) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today. Read more

Finnish star-gazer discovers meteor shower - tail of new comet pinpointed Meteor shower could be sign of comet that could come dangerously close to earth Jarmo Moilanen, a municipal computer expert and amateur astronomer in the Finnish community of Vaala, has detected a new shower of...

Researchers from the Kumanovo Museum are intensely studying the megalithic observatory at the ancient Kokino site in north-eastern Macedonia Read more