* Astronomy

In the morning several peasants plowed their field 3 km from a village. The day was gloomy, the whole northeastern sky was covered by clouds. Suddenly a light appeared all around. In several seconds a strong report was heard, like a cannon or explosion. Then came a second, louder noise. With a loud noi...

The Winona meteorite is a primitive achondrite meteorite. It is the type specimen and by far the largest meteorite of the winonaite group. The Winona meteorite is named after Winona, Arizona. The meteorite is said to be discovered during an archaeological excavation of the Sinagua village Elden P...

The Brachina meteorite is the type specimen of the brachinites class of the asteroidal achondrites. The meteorite is named after Brachina in South Australia. Two fragments (total 200 g) were found by B.M. Eves at 31.300000°S 138.383333°E on 26 May 1974 Read more Research has indicated that the par...

Impact mark on Jupiter, 19th July 2009 Preliminary image showing a black mark in Jupiters South Polar Region (SPR) which is almost certainly the result of a large impact - either an asteroid or comet - similar to the Shoemaker-Ley impacts in 1994. [url=http://jupiter.samba.org/jupiter-impact....

The Battle of Fromelles, sometimes known as the Action at Fromelles or the Battle of Fleurbaix, occurred in France between 19 and 20 July 1916, during World War I. The action was intended partly as a diversion from the Battle of the Somme that was taking place about 80 kilometres to the south. Read mor...

NGC 6775 is a group of stars located in the constellation Aquila. The asterism was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope on the 19th July 1828. Right Ascension 19h 16m 42.0s, Declination -00° 55' 58"

NGC 6830 (also Collinder 406 and OCL 125) is a magnitude +7.9 open star cluster located in the constellation Vulpecula. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, England on the 19th July 1784. Right Asc...

NGC 6892 is a group of four stars located in the constellation Sagitta. The asterism was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the Copenhagen Observatory on the 19th July 1865. Right Ascension 20h 16m 57.1s, Declination +23 0...

The 62 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2014 ML55 will make a close pass (69.6 lunar distances, 0.1789 AU), travelling at 5.48 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th July 2014 @ 23:30 UT ±01:07. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...

The Canakkale (L6) meteorite fell in Canakkale, Turkey, in July 1964. A total mass of 4 kg was recovered. 39° 48'N, 26° 36'E

The Menziswyl (L5) meteorite fell in Fribourg, Switzerland, in July 1903. A total mass of 28.9 g was recovered. 46° 49' 7"N, 7° 13' 5"E

The Palinshih (Iron) meteorite fell in Nei Mongol, China, in July 1914. A total mass of 18 kg was recovered. 43° 29'N, 118° 37'E

The Rewari (L6 chondrite) meteorite fell in Haryana, India, in July, 1929. A total mass of 3.33 kg was recovered. 28° 12'N, 76° 40'E

The Silistra (Achondrite, ungrouped) meteorite fell near Razgrad, Bulgaria, at 7:00 am on July 19, 1917. Meteor phenomenon was observed near Helena Station. The weight of this meteorite is 0.15 grams. Source

On July 19, 1912, the quiet of Holbrook, Arizona was interrupted at approximately 6:30 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. local time, by a series of loud booming sounds followed by several explosions in rapid succession. The entire explosive event lasted for about one half to perhaps one minute. As a few Holbrook res...