* Astronomy

A Long March 3C rocket with the Tian Lian 1B tracking and data relay satellite is scheduled to launch from the Xichang satellite launch complex on the 10th June, 2011.

The Awere (L4 chondrite) meteorite fell in Northern Uganda, on the 12th July, 1968. A total mass of 134 g was recovered. 2° 43'N, 32° 50'E

The date was July 12, 1939 and this 88 pound chunk of space jetsam left a blazing trail across Ohio, Michigan and southwestern Ontario which attracted scores of scientists and astrologers when its landing spot became known. The meteorite hit with an impact that drove it five feet into the ground and i...

The 240 - 530 metre wide asteroid 2003 DX10 will make a close pass (67.6 lunar distances, 0.1738 AU), travelling at 9.04 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th July, 2011 @ 19:11 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...

12P/Pons-Brooks is a periodic comet with a period of 71 years. The comet was suggested by Carl Sagan as the spectacular comet seen by the Chinese in 1486 BCE which, according to historical researcher Graham Phillips, might have inspired the rise of a number of monotheistic religions around the worl...

Physicists at UC Riverside have created molecular positronium, an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called positrons. The research paves the way for studying multi-positronium interactions u...

An Abandoned Rocket Factory in the Everglades Produced by Coffee and Celluloid Productions with the Borscht Corp., Space Miami is a short documentary about an abandoned rocket factory in the Everglades. Aerojet-General, anticipating that rockets would be needed for NASA's Apollo moon mission...

Iran's Aerospace Organization plans to build two satellites namely Pars 2 and Qaem, the caretaker director of the organization announced on Sunday. Read more

ESA today awarded a contract worth almost Euro 150 million to Astrium to develop and build two satellite sensors that will monitor Earth's atmosphere as part of Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. The identical spectrometers, known as Sentinel-4, will each be ca...

The Sirente crater field of more than 20 extremely well preserved structures was discovered during the late 1990s and was originally though to be due to a very recent meteoritic impact (about 1500 years ago). However, further investigations now points to it being a water reservoir for human past...

Something with the moon I filmed the moon, just to test my new camera, when I watched the footage on my computer, I noticed these 'orbs' , ufo's , balls or whatever. Might be artifacts (technical glitches), I just don't know. Thought it was fun...

Anyone up early on Saturday morning would have witnessed a rare event from outer space. Neil Hart and his 10-year-old son Jayden left in the dark to go pig-hunting around 5.50am at Matawai. As they were heading towards Ormond, they saw in the direction of Patutahi an extremely bright meteorite that l...

The Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC) meeting at 7 p.m. at George Mason University (GMU) on the 10th.

Alvan Graham Clark (July 10, 1832 - June 9, 1897), born in Fall River, Massachusetts, was an American astronomer and telescope-maker. Read more

Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454800.5 (2008-Nov-30.0) TDB Reference: JPL 63 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000) Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma) Units e .3449310922762138 6.8807e-07 a .9985876635325036 2.5951e-09 AUq .6541437300166848 6.8836e-07 AUi 33.17893126862085 6.4782e-05 d...