The Park Forest (L5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Illinois, USA, on the 26th March, 2003. A total mass of 18 kg was recovered. 41° 29' 5"N, 87° 40' 45"W
The 61 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2014 FY6 will make a close pass (69.7 lunar distances, 0.1791 AU), travelling at 12.58 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th March 2014 @ 09:54 UT ±00:37. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
Dozens of megafauna (large animals over 100 pounds) – such as giant tortoises, horses, elephants, and cheetah – went extinct in North America13,000 years ago during the end of the Pleistocene. As is the case today in Africa and Asia, these megafauna likely played keystone ecological roles via pred...
NGC 2832 (also Arp 315, MCG 6-21-15, UGC 4942 and PGC 26377) is a magnitude +11.8 elliptical galaxy located 319 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx. The galaxy along with NGC 2830 and NGC 2831 are listed as Arp 315 in the Atlas of peculiar galaxies by Halton Arp. The galaxy triplet Arp 31...
Hubble Peers at the Heart of NGC 5793 NGC 5793 is a Seyfert galaxy. These galaxies have incredibly luminous centers that are thought to be caused by hungry supermassive black holes - black holes that can be billions of times the size of the sun - that pull in and devour gas and dust from their surrounding...
NGC 2504 (also IRAS 07572+0544, MCG 1-21-4, UGC 4152 and PGC 22414) is a magnitude +13.3 peculiar galaxy located 120 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's T...
NGC 2526 (also IRAS 08042+0808, MCG 1-21-12, UGC 4231 and PGC 22778) is a magnitude +13.8 spiral galaxy located 212 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's Tigné P...
NGC 2863 (also NGC 2869, IRAS 09211-1012, MCG -2-24-18 and PGC 26609) is a magnitude +12.9 spiral galaxy located 82 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector a...
NGC 3236 (also MCG 10-15-81 and PGC 30711) is a magnitude +14.3 elliptical galaxy located 427 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough, on t...
NGC 3526 (also NGC 3531, IRAS 11043+0726, MCG 1-28-39, UGC 6167 and PGC 33635) is a magnitude +13.2 spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's...
NGC 4012 (also MCG 2-31-6, UGC 6960 and PGC 37686) is a magnitude +13.4 spiral galaxy located 192 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point observatory in...
NGC 4029 (also MCG 1-31-8, UGC 6990 and PGC 42929) is a magnitude +13.5 spiral galaxy located 286 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point observatory in...
NGC 4658 (also IRAS 12420-0948, MCG -2-33-1 and PGC 42929) is a magnitude +12.5 spiral galaxy located 110 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Clayhal...
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