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UFO lights over Mayfield Unidentified lights over Mayfield shot by Brendon Hill from his home in Riverside Ed ~ Probably lights attached to a tethered balloon.

Orbital elements: 2011 LH Earth MOID = 0.2322 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 54.17308 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35448851 Peri. 113.68458 -0.75920619 +0.24428985 a 1.9772789 Node 85.33897 -0.53346812 -0.76455054 e 0.4729296 Incl. 37.24802 +0.37285081 -0.59647711 P 2.78 H 19.6 G 0....

2009 BB11 = 9B0188F (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 BB11 Earth MOID = 0.2596 AU Epoch 2009 Jan. 9.0 TT = JDT 2454840.5 MPC M 53.66078 (2000.0) P Q n 0.59219273 Peri. 299.88431 +0.44041519 -0.85177120 a 1.4044103 Node 121.27035 +0.89472478 +0.39029676 e 0.1636985 Incl. 19.38960 +0.07417560 +0.34...

Thousands of revellers are expected to take to the Meadows in Edinburgh this weekend for a community festival. The free to enter festival was established in 1974 and held annually on the first weekend of June until 2005 when it was stopped. It restarted in 2008. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/u...

Astrophotography and Drawing Competition[url=http://www.astronomersofthefuture.net/competition.asp?todo=done&a...

Orbital elements: 2011 GA55 Earth MOID = 0.1317 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 315.33766 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32377258 Peri. 318.43344 +0.13461880 +0.98613412 a 2.1004355 Node 319.02621 -0.86559675 +0.06936255 e 0.4686824 Incl. 8.51077 -0.48230699 +0.15075916 P 3.04 H 18.1 G...

Asteroid 2001 QP181 Minimum distance: 0.09032 AU Close approach Date: 19:12:00 UT, 2nd July, 2011 Maximum brightness: 14.9 V Maximum brightness date: 21:00 UT, 3rd July, 2011 Maximum angular velocity: 6.68"/min Absolute magnitude: 18

Baron Franz Xaver von Zach (Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach) (June 4, 1754 - September 2, 1832) was a German astronomer born at Pest in Hungary. Asteroid 999 Zachia and the crater Zach on the Moon are named after him, while asteroid 64 Angelina is named after an astronomical station he set up near Marseil...

Golden Cap's ancient burial mounds excavated in Dorset Work has started to excavate three Bronze Age burial mounds on Golden Cap in Dorset. The 4,000-year-old mounds are at risk from coastal erosion and are being excavated by the National Trust before they are lost to the sea. [url=http://www.bbc...

Orbital elements: 2011 KJ20 Earth MOID = 0.2207 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 39.39453 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26026683 Peri. 348.43369 +0.58417200 -0.78030647 a 2.4295369 Node 65.42673 +0.76286798 +0.43395743 e 0.8257767 Incl. 14.21394 +0.27708398 +0.45033627 P 3.79 H 18.4 G...

John Seach (Chatsworth Island, NSW, Australia) has identified a possible magnitude 9.5 nova on 3 images taken with a digital SLR camera on June 1st, 2011. Position (2000): RA 16 55 11 | Dec -38° 38' 12''[url=http://www.aavso.org/aavso-special-notice-240-possible-nova-scorpius]Sour...

An ILS Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage is scheduled to launcg the KA-SAT communications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 21:51 GMT, 26th December, 2010. Eutelsat's KA-SAT is the first, in Europe, of a new generation of high throughput satellites optimised for cons...

Reports of a small meteor observed over northern Texas at ~2:30 UT, 3rd June, 2011.

Orbital elements: 2011 KG20 Earth MOID = 0.0649 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 9.62867 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29262713 Peri. 102.83008 +0.89940976 +0.27436453 a 2.2469478 Node 242.14486 -0.35492255 +0.91277867 e 0.7431281 Incl. 22.63552 +0.25513147 +0.30258751 P 3.37 H 24.2 G...

Title: CoRoT 102699796, the first metal-poor Herbig Ae pulsator: a hybrid delta Sct-gamma Dor variable? Authors: V. Ripepi, F. Cusano, M. Di Criscienzo, G. Catanzaro, F. Palla, M. Marconi, P. Ventura, C. Neiner, C. Catala, S. Bernabei We present the analysis of the time series observations of CoR...