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EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 01 28 09 05 26.3 +32 10 01 4.1669 5.1248 165.1 2.8 2014 01 29 09 04 43.7 +32 13 01 4.1653 5.1235 165.2 2.8 2014 01 30 09 04 01.0 +32 15 56 4.1640 5.1223 165.1 2.8 2014 01 31 09 03 18.1 +32 18 47 4.1630 5.1211 165.0 2.8 2014 02 01 09 02 35.1 +32 21 34...

The Ramnagar (L6) meteorite fell in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the 15th December, 1940. A total mass of 3.77 kg was recovered. 26° 27'N, 82° 54'E

The Sete Lagoas (H4) meteorite fell in Minas Gerais, Brazil, on the 15th December, 1908. A total mass of 350 g was recovered. 19° 28'S, 44° 13'W

The Vishnupur (LL4-6) meteorite fell in West Bengal, India, on the 15th December, 1906. A total mass of 2.44 kg was recovered. 23° 6'N, 87° 26'E

Huge fireball explodes over Norway on December 6, 2016 turning night into day Spoiler Huge fireball 50 times brighter than the full moon explodes off Norway. Video captured by cameras of Norwegian meteor network @ Harestua...

ATel 9851: SALT Spectroscopic classification of nuclear transient Gaia16cac

Landsat's TIRS Instrument Comes Out of First Round of Thermal Vacuum Testing The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on the next Landsat satellite came out of its first round of thermal vacuum testing Tuesday, October 4 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The two-month t...

Montes Jura is a mountain range in the northwest part of the Moon (of the side that we see). The selenographic coordinates of this range are 47.1° N 34.0° W, and it has a diameter of 422 km. They were named after the Jura Mountains in western Switzerland. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montes_J...

A large part of the growing lava dome on Mount St. Helens fell Saturday, sending an ash plume above the crater rim. A rock fall had caused what scientists called a "substantial seismic signal'' and knocked the chunk off the lava dome, which rises from within the main crater that was created in the m...

On this day in February, 1962 astronaut John Glenn launched into space aboard his Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 atop an Atlas rocket. He became the fifth person in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling the globe three times during a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seco...

Ian McCaskill (born 28 July 1938) is a former BBC weatherman. His Scottish accent, manner of speech, and relentless (some would say unseemly) enthusiasm for severe weather made him popular with viewers. He became the most imitated weather presenter in the UK. He went to Queen's Park School (near Qu...

5 panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount.

The 13 - 29 meter wide asteroid 2016 XW20 in the constellation Cygnus, makes its closest approach to the Earth at 00:18 UT ±1 minute, 13th December 2016. Magnitude: 18.5 Distance to Earth: 0.005 AU (1.80 lunar distances). Distance to Sun: 0.984 AU

Title: The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: Asymmetries in the HD 141569 disc Author: Beth A. Biller, Michael C. Liu, W. Ken Rice, Zahed Wahhaj, Eric Nielsen, Thomas Hayward, Marc Kuchner, Laird M. Close, Mark Chun, Christ Ftaclas, Douglas W. Toomey We report here the highest resolution near...

Title: XMM-Newton view of Swift J1834.9-0846 and its Magnetar Wind Nebula Authors: George Younes, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Oleg Kargaltsev, George G. Pavlov, Ersin Gogus, Stefanie Wachter We report on the analysis of two XMM-Newton observations of the recently discovered soft gamma repeater Swi...