* Astronomy

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NASA Telescopes Detect Jupiter-Like Storm on Small Star Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a tiny star with a giant, cloudy storm, using data from NASA's Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes. The dark storm is akin to Jupiter's Great Red Spot: a persistent, raging storm larger than Eart...

The central North Sea Dome is a composite dome comprising the Triple Junction Dome, the Central Graben Dome and the Friesland Dome. Read more

Expedition 45/Visiting Crew Departs for Kazakh Launch Site Spoiler

The 240 - 540 metre wide asteroid 2011 LL2 made a close pass (39.9 lunar distances, 0.1026 AU), travelling at 13.32 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd June, 2011 @ 02:17 UT ±01:30. See more The Lunar Distance (LD...

Orbital elements: 2015 XK261 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0276 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 351.05775 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26947497 Peri. 316.84855 -0.96979525 -0.23326550 a 2.3738709 Node 209.88242 +0.24391865 -0.92854637 e 0.5987869 Incl. 8.22836 -0.00093500 -0.28877126 P 3.66...

ATel 8400: ASAS-SN Discovery of A Bright Transient Near SDSS J023024.26+450717.5

Orbital elements: 2015 XP169 Earth MOID = 0.0009 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 70.75469 (2000.0) P Q n 0.75379236 Peri. 286.46186 +0.99015752 +0.04281723 a 1.1957349 Node 71.23726 +0.01966483 +0.90004748 e 0.3200017 Incl. 8.08982 -0.13856905 +0.43368332 P 1.31 H 26.2 G...

Orbital elements: 2015 XR169 Earth MOID = 0.0001 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 342.28358 (2000.0) P Q n 0.73440038 Peri. 250.94781 -0.91606395 -0.40103152 a 1.2166924 Node 265.40951 +0.36822244 -0.84037471 e 0.3472810 Incl. 0.04315 +0.15886811 -0.36461496 P 1.34 H 28....

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t23107936/banbury-meteorite/

Meteorites No historical meteorite falls today, AFAIK

Title: The serendipitous discovery of a possible new solar system object with ALMA Author: W. Vlemmings, S. Ramstedt, M. Maercker, B. Davidsson The unprecedented sensitivity of the Atacama Large millimeter/submillimeter array (ALMA) is providing many new discoveries. Several of these are se...

Most distant solar system object yet could hint at hidden planet The inky black of the outer solar system just got a little brighter. A speck of light spotted in October 2015 is a rocky world more than 3 times more distant than Pluto the farthest body in our solar system ever seen. Scott Sheppard of the Ca...

Palaeontologists have discovered a bizarre whale fossil in Australia with a set of fearsome teeth. The specimen has surprised scientists because it belongs to the group known as baleen whales. Modern day baleen whales are all placid, plankton eaters, but the new fossil shows the group were...

Most of the biggest black holes in the universe have been eating cosmic meals behind closed doors – until now. With its sharp infrared eyes, the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) peered through walls of galactic dust to uncover what may be the long-sought missing population of hungry [url=http://...