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Israeli archaeologists find inscription of name "Eshbaal Ben Bed" on ceramic jar Israel's antiquities authority says archaeologists have discovered a rare 3,000-year-old inscription of a name mentioned in the Bible. Eshbaal of the Bible was a son of King Saul. Read more

NOAA's GOES-R Satellite Solar Array Spreads its Wing Engineers completed the deployment of the Solar Array Wing Assembly including the Solar Pointing Platform in a cleanroom facility where the GOES-R satellite is being assembled. The Sun Pointing Platform holds two of the GOES-R space weather i...

Title: Does the Corona Borealis Supercluster form a giant binary-like system? Author: Giovanni C. Baiesi Pillastrini The distribution of local gravitational potentials generated by a complete volume-limited sample of galaxy groups and clusters filling the Corona Borealis region has been an...

Title: SDSS J111010.01+011613.1: A New Planetary-Mass T Dwarf Member of the AB Doradus Moving Group Author: Jonathan Gagné, Adam J. Burgasser, Jacqueline K. Faherty, David Lafrenière, René Doyon, Joseph C. Filippazzo, Emily Bowsher, Christine P. Nicholls We present a new radial velocity meas...

Japan's Mt. Asama, in Tsumagoi, about 140 km northwest of Tokyo, erupted early Monday from its summit crater. The volcano spewed hot rocks and sent ash showers as far as Tokyo and its vicinity in the southern Kanto region, Japan. There was no major damage in the sparsely populated vicinity [url=htt...

Orbital elements: 2015 KP18 Earth MOID = 0.0008 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 341.44425 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46902244 Peri. 81.32159 +0.94589470 +0.32399630 a 1.6406161 Node 259.77220 -0.30428763 +0.86691488 e 0.5845439 Incl. 1.02450 -0.11265988 +0.37879412 P 2.10 H 23.1 G...

The 23 - 51 metre wide asteroid 2015 LK will make a close pass (7.8 LD, 0.0201 AU) travelling at 8.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th June 2015 @ 23:30 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Comet C/2014 W11 (PANSTARRS) is at Opposition (2.587 AU) on the 4th February 2015 EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2015 02 03 000000 09 05 15.0 +10 35 25 2.589 3.571 173.8 1.7 17.6 2015 02 04 000000 09 04 39.0 +10 34 37 2.587 3.569 174.1 1.6 17.6 2015 02 05 000000 09 04 02.9 +10 33 52 2...

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The 17 - 39 metre wide asteroid 2015 LF21 made a close pass (3.2 LD, 0.0081 AU) travelling at 19.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th June 2015 @ 21:13 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

ATel 7634: ASAS-SN Discovery of A Probable Supernova in NGC 4108 Mag 16.2V

Betty Pierazzo Honoured With Lunar Crater Elisabetta "Betty" Pierazzo, a leading expert in the modelling of impact crater formation, has been honoured with an impact crater named for her on the Moon. The 9-kilometre diameter crater is located on the far side of the Moon. Bright rays of e...

Mexico braces for storm Carlos Carlos was downgraded to a tropical storm on Sunday, but meteorologists said it could again reach hurricane-level strength by Tuesday. Read more

Title: Modelling the atmosphere of the carbon-rich Mira RU Vir Author: G. Rau, C. Paladini, J. Hron, B. Aringer, M. A. T. Groenewegen, W. Nowotny Context. We study the atmosphere of the carbon-rich Mira RU Vir using the mid-infrared high spatial resolution interferometric observations from VLTI...

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