* Astronomy

The Bath (H4) meteorite fell in South Dakota, USA, on the 29th August, 1892. A total mass of 21 kg was recovered. 45° 25'N, 98° 19'W

The Pirgunje (L6) meteorite fell in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, on the 29th August, 1882. A total mass of 842 g was recovered. 25° 48'N, 88° 27'E

The Mern (L6) meteorite fell in Region Sjaelland, Denmark, on the 29th August, 1878. A total mass of 4 kg was recovered. 55° 3'N, 12° 4'E

Maxima of the long period variable U Arae on the 29th August, 2011. Date: 29th August, 2011 Magnitude range: 8.4 - 13.6 (?) Period: 225.21 days (?) Type: Mira Position(2000): RA=17 53 37.61 | Dec=-51° 41' 14.3"

Typhoon Nanmadol (14W) is forecast to strike land to make landfall in the Philippines probability for CAT 1 or above is 85% in about 20 hours probability for TS is 100% within 8 hours

Ab Abd Allah Muammad ibn Jabir ibn Sinan al-Raqq al-arran al-abi al-Battan (Latinised as Albategnius, Albategni or Albatenius) (c. 858, Harran - 929, Qasr al-Jiss, near Samarra) was a Muslim astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician. Little is known about al-Battan's life beside that he was bo...

Bewah Man, the skeleton said to be 13,400 years old, will be the focus of Terengganu Archaeology Seminar and Exhibition here on Sept 25. Terengganu Museum Board Assistant Curator Azuan Haron said the exhibition seek to disseminate chronology of historical and cultural information on the state vi...

Hum, Looks like the Smithsonian Institution has yielded to power of the internet and decided to put all their historical artwork on to the internet…. The resource has ju...

Elaborate rock art which for years is believed to have been created by prehistoric Ilkley man (West Yorkshire, England) was probably only created about 170 years ago, it has been revealed. A Victorian workman could have been responsible for some of the markings on one of Britain's most famous examp...

The cataclysmic variable star TT Bootis is in outburst. Date: 26th February, 2011 Magnitude range: 12.7 - <15.6 Period: 45 days Satellite period: ? Type: UGSU Position(2000): RA=14 57 44.74, Dec=+40°43'42.2" 14th August 2009 outburst [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2rb0...

Evidence of huge meteorite hitting ancient Inner Mongolia Rock paintings discovered in Inner Mongolia show fleeing animals and people anxiously watching what looks like a giant comet over their heads. Source

Orbital elements: 2001 SO263 Earth MOID = 0.2456 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 358.23769 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29595439 Peri. 164.78498 +0.95177743 +0.30673836 a 2.2300753 Node 177.33263 -0.29253131 +0.91288735 e 0.4388045 Incl. 6.90467 -0.09244001 +0.26934783 P 3.33 H 22....

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Just to the north of Deneb, halfway between Deneb and Herschel's Garnet Star, is the dark nebula Le Gentil 3, or Globular Filament 7 (GF 7, catalogued by Schneider & Elmegreen in 1979). Le Gentil 3 was discovered and catalogued by the French astronomer Guillaume-Joseph-Hyacinthe-Jean-Bapt...

The 180m-410m wide asteroid 2008 WN2, made a close flyby of the Earth on the 23rd March, 2009 passing by around seven million, two hundred and seventy thousand km. See more