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Iota Trianguli (HD 13480) is magnitude +4.94 binary star located 305 light years away in the constellation Triangulum. Read more

Tsar Bomba is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons of TNT (420 PJ); however, the bomb yield was reduced to 50 megatons in order to reduce nuclear...

Meteorites No historical meteorire falls today

The Naragh (H6) meteorite fell in Esfahan, Iran, on the 18th August, 1974. A total mass of 2.7 kg was recovered. 33° 45'N, 51° 30'E

Comet 124P/Mrkos is at Opposition (0.686 AU) on the 14th March 2014 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 03 13 11 37 50.3 +19 01 10 0.6881 1.6661 164.0 9.5 14.4 2014 03 14 11 35 34.3 +18 30 39 0.6860 1.6646 164.2 9.3 14.3 2014 03 15 11 33 18.4 +17 59 31 0.6841 1.6632 164.3 9.3 14.3...

The 120 - 280 metre wide asteroid 2015 OF26 will make a close pass (38.3 LD, 0.0984 AU) travelling at 16.54 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th August 2015 @ 08:46 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 200 - 450 metre wide asteroid (350713) 2001 XP88 will make a close pass (56.1 LD, 0.1441 AU) travelling at 2.96 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th August 2015 @ 00:30 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU...

Orbital elements: 2001 QJ96 = 2015 PK229 Earth MOID = 0.0010 AU Id. F. Manca Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 295.43526 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49080822 Peri. 121.63898 -0.18230492 -0.98254715 a 1.5917010 Node 338.77125 +0.86400937 -0.14214273 e 0.7972518 Incl. 5.85850 +0.46931090 -...

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering plants and their ancestors. The Amborella plant, found in the rain forests of Ne...

Roadrunner Scientists at the Los Alamos government weapons lab have built the world's fastest computer, capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second.... Read more

Jacob David Bekenstein (May 1, 1947 - August 17, 2015) was a Mexican-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. Read more

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Comet C/390 Q1 made its closest approach to the Earth (0.1002 AU, 14.9 million km) on the 18th August 390 AD. Read more

The Great Meteor of August 18, 1783 was an unusually bright bolide observed from the United Kingdom at a time when such phenomena were not well understood. Read more

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