The Egtved Girl (c. 1390 - 1370 BC) was a Nordic Bronze Age girl whose well-preserved remains were discovered outside Egtved, Denmark in 1921. Aged 16 - 18 at death, she was slim, 160 cm tall, had short, blond hair and well-trimmed nails. Her burial has been dated by dendrochronology to 1370 BC. Read mo...
Newgrange to be X-rayed to determine source of granite The base of the 5,000- year-old Neolithic monument at Newgrange, Co Meath, is to be X-rayed by a researcher in a bid to determine the origin of its granite boulders. Dr Ian G Meighan of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, who holds an honora...
Impact crater or supervolcano caldera? At first glance, the region covered by this latest Mars Express image release appears to be pockmarked with impact craters. But the largest structure among them may hold a rather explosive secret: it could be remains of an ancient supervolcano. The images pr...
The 180 - 390 metre wide asteroid 1997 XR2 will make a close pass (75.5 LD, 0.1939 AU) travelling at 12.41 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd May 2015 @ 17:01 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:
2011 WV4 Earth MOID = 0.0274 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 353.06419 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.75957502 Peri. 277.96141 +0.80050418 +0.58047619
a 1.1896584 Node 46.70491 -0.43667494 +0.73534201
e 0.2997486 Incl. 11.82362 -0.41049732 +0.34974208
P 1.30 H 22.6 G...
Caltech Astronomers Observe a Supernova Colliding with Its Companion Star On May 3, 2014, a team of Caltech astronomers working on a robotic observing system known as the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF)- a multi-institute collaboration led by Shrinivas Kulkarni, the John D. and C...
The world's oldest stone tools have been discovered, scientists report. They were unearthed from the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, and date to 3.3 million years ago. They are 700,000 years older than any tools found before, even pre-dating the earliest humans in the Homo genus. Read more
The 11 - 24 metre wide asteroid 2015 KG made a close pass (14.3 LD, 0.0368 AU) travelling at 5.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th May 2015 @ 04:47 UT ±00:16. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Abell 21 (also known as The Medusa Nebula, Sharpless 274, YM 29 and PK 205+14 1) is a magnitude +7.68 planetary nebula located 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. The planetary nebula was independently discovered by UCLA astronomer George O. Abell at the Palomar Observatory, and...
Title: Double Pendulum: a Second Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellite in the Horologium Constellation Author: Dongwon Kim, Helmut Jerjen We report the discovery of a new ultra-faint Milky Way satellite candidate, Horologium II, detected in the Dark Energy Survey Y1A1 public data. Horologium II fea...
Title: Mid-IR imaging of the transitional disk of HD169142: Measuring the size of the gap Authors: M. Honda, Koen Maaskant, Y. K. Okamoto, H. Kataza, M. Fukagawa, L. B. F. M. Waters, C. Dominik, A. G. G. M. Tielens, G. D. Mulders, M. Min, T. Yamashěta, T. Fujiyoshi, T. Miyata, S. Sako, I. Sakon, H. Fujiw...
