* Astronomy

UK to develop Quantum 'universal' satellite The development of a completely novel type of telecommunications satellite has been approved. To be called Quantum and built in the UK, the 3.5-tonne spacecraft will break new ground by being totally reconfigurable in orbit. Read more

The 17 - 39 metre wide asteroid 2015 NR2 made a close pass (10.7 LD, 0.0275 AU) travelling at 7.21 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th July 2015 @ 07:28 UT ±00:04. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

New Tropical Depression Forms and Moves into Central Pacific Ocean Tropical Depression 4E formed in the Eastern Pacific and crossed the 140 West longitude line as of the 0300 UTC time, which brought it into the Central Pacific Ocean. NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured an infrared image of the dep...

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Burckle Crater is an undersea 5,000 years old crater likely to have been formed by a very large scale comet or meteorite impact event. It is located to the east of Madagascar and west of Western Australia in the southern Indian ocean. Its position was determined in 2006 by the Holocene Impact Working G...

Title: 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5: A Possible Hierarchical Quintuple System Author: Jae-Rim Koo, Jae Woo Lee, Byeong-Cheol Lee, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Kyeongsoo Hong, Dong-Joo Lee, Soo-Chang Rey We present the observational results of this kind of rare object 1SWASP J093010.78+5338...

The Alexandrovsky (H4 chondrite) meteorite fell in Chernigov, Ukraine, on the 8th July, 1900. A total mass of 9.25 kg was recovered. 50° 57'N, 31° 49'E

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The 88 - 200 metre wide asteroid 2015 JH2 will make a close pass (30.8 LD, 0.0791 AU) travelling at 6.56 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th July 2015 @ 02:39 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 first known fossil Deinocheirus remains are a single pair of massive forelimbs and the remains of some ribs and vertebrae. They were found on 9 July 1965 during a Polish-Mongolian expedition to the Gobi by Professor Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska at the Altan Ula III site in Ömnögovi Province. Read mo...

Title: KIC 4768731: a bright long-period roAp star in the Kepler Field Author: B. Smalley, E. Niemczura, S.J. Murphy, H. Lehmann, D.W. Kurtz, D.L. Holdsworth, M.S. Cunha, L.A. Balona, M. Briquet, H. Bruntt, P. de Cat, P. Lampens, A.O. Thygesen, K. Uytterhoeven We report the identification of 61.4...

The 6.9 mag B0.5 Ib OB-runaway star HD77581, the supergiant primary in the X-ray binary Vela X-1, both travel through interstellar space with an anomalously high velocity, creating a large bow shock infront of the star system. Only about fifty OB-associations are known in the Milky Way. Position(...

BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given to about one million UK-based children in October. The device - which features a programmable array of red LED lights - includes two buttons and a built-in mot...

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