I was driving into Le Mars from the north, and when I was about a mile out of town, I saw a giant blue-green falling star with some white flecks, which looked like it was headed straight for my little house. Read more
An Oopart (Out Of Place ARTifact) is a term applied to dozens of prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that, given their level of technology, are completely at odds with their determined age based on physical, chemical, and/or geological evidence. Ooparts often are frustra...
May ?? - New Horizons, Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM) May ?? - Cbers 2B CZ-4B Launch May ?? - Cosmos-Oko N88 Molniya M Launch May ?? - TerraSAR-X Dnepr 1 Launch May ?? - Genesis 2 Dnepr 1 Launch May ?? - Cosmos (Parus N97)/ Orbcomm-CDS 3 Cosmos 3M Launch May 02 - Full Moon, 11:09.4 UT May 02 - Asteroid 9...
A new Exoplanet HD 7924 b has been discovered. The planet is about 10x the size of Earth, and has a 5-day orbital period. Mass: 0.029 Jupiter Masses Orbital distance: 0.057 AU Read more
The 53 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2005 YR3 will make a close pass (27.0 Lunar Distances, 0.0694 AU) to the Earth-Moon system on 16th February 2009. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU). Orbital elements: 2005 YR3 Earth MOID = 0.010...
Today in Animas, New Mexico, at the Rancho Hidalgo housing development, the 16-inch telescope used by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh in his later years will be officially dedicated at its new home, where it will serve as a centerpiece in a new educational program. Members of the Tombaugh family an...
USA 186 (NROL-20) is an American military reconnaissance craft that was launched by a Titan 4B rocket from Vandenberg AFB at 18:05 UT on 19 October 2005. Neither the payload nor the orbital information is available for this NRO-commissioned mission. [url=http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spac...
Italian astronomer Andrea Boattini broke the record for the number of new comets sighted in one year when he spotted his seventh at Christmas. The previous record had been held for some 150 years by Italian astronomers Francesco De Vito and Giovanni Battista Donati who in the mid-1800s sighted six c...
An asteroid that was discovered by astronomers working together from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in 2006 and named after the Aboriginal Tsou tribe has been recognised by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an academic source said on Thursday. An IAU commission in charge of naming come...
Strange orange lights in the sky have been reported off Ravenglass - and the North West UFO Research is very interested. The unexplained lights were seen offshore from Ravenglass last Saturday night at about 7pm. A man "who has extensive knowledge of the area" said it was not flares and no...
When black holes are perturbed, they vibrate somewhat like a ringing bell. Now astronomers have narrowed down the rotational speed at which that vibration should stop. As is typical, they did it out by running a simulation. But instead of a supercomputer, they used a batch of Sony PlayStation 3 gami...
This wide field short tube "Rich-Field" refractor is ideal for views of star fields, clusters, nebulae, bright galaxies, planets, the Moon and, the Sun with correct safety filtering. Expand (65...
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