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Sun 03.06.15; White light photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ5 Mount and Baader solar filter.

Irwin A. Rose (July 16, 1926 - June 2, 2015) was an American biologist. Read more

Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon Hyperion was captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Seen at the top is a 130-kilometer-wide crater...

The 320 - 710 metre wide asteroid 2008 KW2 will make a close pass (73.9 LD, 0.1900 AU) travelling at 30.58 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th June 2015 @ 22:10 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 49 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 KM122 will make a close pass (50.1 LD, 0.1288 AU) travelling at 6.68 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th June 2015 @ 21:45 UT ±01:59. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 73 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2015 KE57 will make a close pass (76.4 LD, 0.1964 AU) travelling at 9.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th June 2015 @ 15:51 UT ±00:32. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 640 - 1400 metre wide asteroid (417211) 2005 XL80 will make a close pass (38.1 LD, 0.0979 AU) travelling at 14.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th June 2015 @ 08:21 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 510 - 1100 metre wide asteroid (380981) 2006 SU131 will make a close pass (69.2 LD, 0.1778 AU) travelling at 9.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th June 2015 @ 01:39 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...

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Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV) was a manned space flight in NASA's Gemini program, launched on the 3rd June, 1965. It was the 2nd manned Gemini flight, the 10th manned American flight and the 18th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km). It was crewed by James McDivitt and Edward...

A search for oil in the Baltic Sea has turned up the wreck of the German World War 2 aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, whose whereabouts had been a mystery since it was sunk by the Soviet navy after the war. A research ship belonging to Polish oil company Petrobaltic found the 250-metre wreck 55km nor...

4 panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

Title: A Radio SETI Campaign for microsec-sec Periodic Signals Author: G. R. Harp, R. F. Ackermann, Alfredo Astorga, Jack Arbunich, Kristin Hightower, Seth Meitzner, W. C. Barott, Michael C. Nolan, D. G. Messerschmitt, Douglas A. Vakoch, Seth Shostak, J. C. Tarter We report a novel radio autocor...