330 million year old volcanoes discovered near Mullingar, Co Westmeath A low flying aircraft using the latest mapping technology has uncovered the 330 million-year-old rock formations on the Westmeath / Offaly border south of Mullingar. It also showed bands of volcanic rocks several kilometre...
The 62 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2015 SY made a close pass (16.7 LD, 0.0429 AU) travelling at 13.68 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th September 2015 @ 11:07 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 26 - 58 metre wide asteroid 2015 GA14 made a close pass (21.3 LD, 0.0546 AU) travelling at 6.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th April 2015 @ 19:24 UT ±00:07. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
On Dec 11, 1967, "Movin' with Nancy" shows an interracial kiss Spoiler Associated Television's series 'Emergency - Ward 10' showed the first kiss on television between black and white actors, Joan Hooley pla...
New astronomy tool peers through the heart of the Milky Way A powerful new tool for probing the structure of our galaxy has been developed by astronomers associated with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, including two Penn State astronomers. The new tool is an infrared spectrograph for the Apache Poin...
Novae explode without warning, and even recurrent novae are pretty unpredictable. (For instance, we've been waiting way too long for T Pyxidis to erupt again But here's a prediction about a recurrent nova that should go off in a specific year: 2009. I've calculated that the recurrent nova U Scorpii...
Title: Superluminous Supernova iPTF13ehe: First Evidence of Triple Energy Sources Author: S. Q. Wang, L. D. Liu, Z. G. Dai, L. J. Wang, X. F. Wu Almost all superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) whose peak magnitudes are \lesssim -21 mag can be explained by the 56Ni-powered model or magnetar-powered (h...
Title: Discovery of a low-mass companion around HR3549 Author: Dimitri Mawet, Trevor David, Michael Bottom, Sasha Hinkley, Karl Stapelfeldt, Deborah Padgett, Bertrand Mennesson, Eugene Serabyn, Farisa Morales, Jonas Kuhn We report the discovery of a low-mass companion to HR3549, an A0V star...
'Carbonite' space imager revealed UK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has released details of the spacecraft it launched in July, but about which it gave few details at the time. Codenamed Carbonite, the 80kg platform filled some unused mass on the rocket that put up the company's new high-resol...
The 130 - 280 metre wide asteroid 2001 SQ3 will make a close pass (72.8 lunar distances, 0.1871 AU), travelling at 18.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th March, 2014 @ 22:42 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
The 84 - 190 metre wide asteroid 2010 QA5 will make a close pass (45.6 LD, 0.1172 AU) travelling at 20.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd September 2015 @ 08:12 UT ±11:24. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Comet 227P/Catalina-LINEAR makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.681 AU) on the 24th April, 2011. 227P/Catalina-LINEAR was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey & LINEAR on the 14th March 2003. Read more EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase m1 m2 2011 04 19 15 39 46.7...
Happy solstice everyone! At 6:46 UT, the earth was at summer Solstice. Also The Full Moon will be on the evening (04:14 UT) of 22 June. :smile: -- Edited by Blobrana at 14:18, 2006-11-28
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