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Arianespace chosen to launch MSG-4 weather satellite Lars Prahm, Director-General of EUMETSAT, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman & CEO of Arianespace, signed today the launch Service & Solutions contract for the MSG-4 meteorological observation satellite in Kourou, French Guiana, du...

41 overlapping panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ5 Mount.

China to launch Jilin-1 satellite in Oct. Northeast China's Jilin Province plans to send Jilin-1, the country's first self-developed remote sensing satellite for commercial use, into space in October, its designers said Tuesday. Jilin-1 consists of four satellites, one for high-definition i...

Tracking A Mysterious Group of Asteroid Outcasts High above the plane of our solar system, near the asteroid-rich abyss between Mars and Jupiter, scientists have found a unique family of space rocks. These interplanetary oddballs are the Euphrosyne (pronounced you-FROH-seh-nee) asteroids, a...

Tributes paid to First World Wars lost scientist He was to chemistry and physics what Wilfred Owen was to poetry: a phenomenal talent cut down in his prime. But while most people know of Wilfred Owen, few have heard of the brilliant British physicist Henry GJ Moseley (1887-1915), part of a generation...

Title: Forming Different Planetary Systems Authors: J.-L. Zhou, J.-W. Xie, H.-G. Liu, H. Zhang, Y.-S. Sun With the increasing of detected exoplanet samples, the statistical properties of planet systems become much clear. In this review, we summarise the major statistics that are revealed main...

6 Million Years of Savanna University of Utah scientists used chemical isotopes in ancient soil to measure prehistoric tree cover - in effect, shade - and found that grassy, tree-dotted savannas prevailed at most East African sites where human ancestors and their ape relatives evolved during the...

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44250733/aldsworth-meteorite/

Meteorite Crashes In Iran. The impact of a meteorite would have happened near Qazvin, in Iran, not far from the state capital of Iran, Tehran. Many agencies talk about damage, locally huge. The meteorite would have fallen to avaj, near Qazvin, but it would also have effected the area near Karaj, Zanj...

Comet C/2014 M2 (Christensen) makes its closest approach to the Earth (6.484 AU) in the constellation Delphinus on the 24th July 2015 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2015 07 20 20 20 11.7 +15 35 52 6.4696 7.3078 143.1 4.8 18.7 2015 07 21 20 19 52.4 +15 36 45 6.4687 7.3099 143...

Orbital elements: 2012 KA4 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0258 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 345.72333 (2000.0) P Q n 0.84291255 Peri. 237.26009 -0.03815400 -0.99754661 a 1.1098928 Node 215.07147 +0.94759597 -0.01747435 e 0.7837037 Incl. 5.86291 +0.31718474 -0.06778942 P 1.17 H 2...

White-light image captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

Ultraviolet (390nm) image

Meteoriteshttp://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44230858/mayo-belwa-meteorite/

Comet 25D/Neujmin 2 makes its closest approach to the Earth (2.974 AU) on the 21st July 2015 EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2015 07 20 000000 21 02 27.4 -16 41 15 2.974 3.960 163.6 4.2 21.7 2015 07 21 000000 21 01 38.4 -16 44 02 2.974 3.963 164.7 3.9 21.7 2015 07 22 000000 21 00 49.0...