* Astronomy

An interesting report upon a meteorite which fell at Grossliebenthall, near Odessa, in November, 1881, has just been furnished to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Daubree. About 7 o'clock one morning a bright and serpentine tail of fire was seen passing over the town by the inhabitants of Odessa...

NGC 2613 (also ESO 495-18 MCG -4-21-3, UGCA 141, IRAS 08311-2248, AM 0831-224, CGMW 2-3822 and PGC 23997) is a magnitude +10.4 spiral galaxy located about 77 million light-years away in the constellation Pyxis. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5...

Image of the Western limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

The Rakovka (L6) meteorite fell in Orlovskaya oblast', Russia, on the 20th November, 1878. A total mass of 9 kg was recovered. 52° 59'N, 37° 2'E

The Mauerkirchen (L6) meteorite fell in Oberosterreich, Austria, on the 20th November, 1768. A total mass of 19 kg was recovered. 48° 11'N, 13° 8'E

The HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) mission to the will investigate an S-type Asteroid (25143) Itokawa, an asteroid known as an earth-approaching type. The Japanese spacecraft HAYABUSA will encounter Itokawa (1998SF36) on October - November this year, it will...

ATel 9669: ASAS-SN Discovery of A Likely Galactic Nova ASASSN-16ma on the Rise

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has announced the discovery of four oil fields. The discoveries, in the north at Ufuq and Dafiq, and in the south at Sakhiya-South West and Mamour, will contribute to PDO’s oil production. The finds hold out the prospect of further discoveries in the formation...

Two panel photomoasic of sunspots 12611 and 12610 (right) captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

ATel 9768: Liverpool Telescope spectrum of classical nova M31N 2016-11a

Asteroid (194) Prokne is a very large and dark main-belt asteroid. It has a primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on March 21, 1879 in Clinton, New York, and named after Procne, the sister of Philomela in Greek mythology. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/194...

The Cronstad (H5) meteorite fell in Free State, South Africa, on the 19th November, 1877. A total mass of 3.65 kg was recovered. 27° 42'S, 27° 18'E The Cronstad is also known as the Kroonstad meteorite (NHM Catalogue)

Title: Planetesimal collisions as a chondrule forming event Author: Shigeru Wakita, Yuji Matsumoto, Shoichi Oshino, Yasuhiro Hasegawa Chondritic meteorites contain unique spherical materials named chondrules: sub-mm sized silicate grains once melted in a high temperature condition in th...

Title: CoRoT 223992193: Investigating the variability in a low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary with evidence of a circumbinary disk Author: Edward Gillen, Suzanne Aigrain, Caroline Terquem, Jerome Bouvier, Silvia H. P. Alencar, Davide Gandolfi, John Stauffer, Ann Marie Cody, Laur...

Title: Hayabusa-2 Mission Target Asteroid 162173 Ryugu (1999 JU3): Searching for the Object's Spin-Axis Orientation Author: T. G. Müller, J. Durech, M. Ishiguro, M. Mueller, T. Krühler, H. Yang, M.-J. Kim, L. O'Rourke, F. Usui, C. Kiss, B. Altieri, B. Carry, Y.-J. Choi, M. Delbo, J. P. Emery, J. Gr...