Mineral hints at bright blue rocks deep in the Earth Minerals preserved in diamond have revealed hints of the bright blue rocks that exist deep within the Earth. They also provide the first direct evidence that there may be as much water trapped in those rocks as there is in all the oceans. The diamond,...
Title: Spectro-astrometry of V1515 Cyg Author: V. Agra-Amboage, P. J. V. Garcia FU Orionis objects are a class of young stars with important bursts in luminosity and which show evidence of accretion and ejection activity. It is generally accepted that they are surrounded by a Keplerian circumste...
NGC 5083 (also IRAS 13167+3951, MCG 7-27-59, UGC 8367 and PGC 46413) is a magnitude +14.2 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 327 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and...
NGC 5565 is (possibly) a magnitude +15.5 star located in the constellation Virgo. The star was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Avenue, Rochester, New York, on the 14th June 1884. Right Ascensi...
NGC 6004 (also IRAS 15481+1905, MCG 3-40-51, UGC 10056 and PGC 56166) is a magnitude +12.3 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 176 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) refle...
Pê Houndé, Burkina Faso Fell 1989 June 14, 7:30 local time Ordinary chondrite (L6) A fist-sized stone (weight unknown) was seen to fall by farmers working in a field near to Pê, southwestern Burkina Faso. The chief of the village threw the stone away because it was thought to be a bad omen; later, howev...
Luna E-8-5 No.402 was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Luna programme, also called Luna 15b The mission of the Luna Ye-probes 8-5 was land on the lunar surface, collect samples of the lunar surface and return a capsule to Earth. Luna E-8-5 No.402 was launched at 04:00:07 UTC on 14 June 1969 atop...
Orbital elements:
2014 HQ124 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0083 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 214.20493 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.25506990 Peri. 144.67102 +0.68168021 -0.59623853
a 0.8511853 Node 257.79803 +0.53078540 +0.80190199
e 0.2574648 Incl. 25.71171 +0.50356623 -0.03811587
P 0.79...
Soon after the Portales Valley meteorite fell in 1998, it was classified as one of the most common types of meteorites, an H6 ordinary chondrite. Although researchers quickly recognized that Portales Valley is not a typical H6 chondrite, there was little agreement about how the meteorite formed....
Although Thailand has not exactly been in the forefront of space exploration, a rogue [16.7 kg Ungrouped iron] meteorite did hit the Kingdom in [June 13] 1993. It landed on a plot of land owned by an old lady [Mrs. Kumla Ragkon] in Lom Sak district of Phetchabun. She presumed it to be some sort of religio...
Jonzac meteorite, (stone; eucrite achondrite). Jonzac is a monomict eucrite which fell in the Poitou-Charentes region of France in 1819. Only 5,000g was recovered. Present in NHM collection.
A Welsh archaeology and heritage project has won a top UK award. The CAER heritage project brought 1,000 people together to explore and excavate the ancient Iron Age Caer hill fort in the heart of a Cardiff suburb in 2013. Read more
NGC 6569 (also ESO 456-SC77 and GCL 91) is a magnitude +8.4 globular cluster located 35,550 light-years way in the constellation Sagittarius, and 10,100 light-years away from the galactic center. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inc...
NGC 6491 (also NGC 6493A, IRAS 17494+6132, MCG 10-25-103, UGC 11008 and PGC 60949) is a magnitude +13.6 spiral galaxy located 247 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift using a 40.64 cm (16 inch) refractor on the 13th June 1...
NGC 6373 (also MCG 10-25-23, UGC 10850 and PGC 60220) is a magnitude +13.6 spiral galaxy located 153 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift using a 40.64 cm (16 inch) refractor on the 13th June 1885. Right Ascension 17h 24m 0...
