This site is known as Trefael a single slab with at least 28 cupmarks, 17 of which are shallow depressions. Lynch suggests that this stone may well be a capstone from a now destroyed monument. Nash suggest that the cairn exists around the site, much of it incorporated into the surrounding field bounda...
NGC 1632 (also IC 386, NPM1G -09.0208 and PGC 15769) is a magnitude +14.4 spiral galaxy located 230 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Frank Muller using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) refracting telescope at the Leander McCormick Obser...
Frank Muller (10 September 1862, Virginia , USA - 19 April 1917, Virginia, USA) was an American astronomer, and close associate of Ormond Stone and Francis Leavenworth at the Leander McCormick Observatory. He discovered 83 astronomical objects now listed in the NGC catalogue, and thirteen in the...
NGC 1781 (also NGC 1794, ESO 553-7, MCG -3-14-2, IRAS 05057-1815 and PGC 16788) is a magnitude +12.7 barred spiral galaxy located 229 million light-years away in the constellation Lepus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer Frederick William Herschel, using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inc...
NGC 2163 (also DG 87, LBN 855 Magakian 172, and CED 62) is a magnitude +13.0 bi-polar reflection nebula located in the constellation Orion. The central star TYC 1317-311-2 is at magnitude +11.3 The nebula was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan, using the 80 cm (31.5 inch) r...
NGC 2204 (also OCL 572 Cr 88, Mel 44 and ESO 556-SC7) is a magnitude +8.6 open cluster located 8,575 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The cluster was first discovered by astronomer Caroline Herschel, using a 10.67 cm (4.2 inch) newtonian reflector, at Datchet, Berkshire, on the 2...
NGC 2897 (also NPM1G +02.0220 and PGC 26949) is a magnitude +14.5 spiral galaxy located 323 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy is near to the magnitude 8.3 star HD 82089. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector a...
NGC 2898 (also MCG 0-24-18, CGCG 6-48, NPM1G +02.0221, IRAS 09271+0217 and PGC 26950) is a magnitude +13.7 spiral galaxy located 163 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William La...
NGC 2917 (also UGC 5098, MCG 0-25-2, CGCG 7-3 and PGC 27207) is a magnitude +13.6 lenticular galaxy located 169 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point ob...
The 150 - 330 metre wide asteroid 2014 BS43 will make a close pass (71.3 lunar distances, 0.1832 AU), travelling at 25.21 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th February 2014 @ 05:19 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 MW1 Earth MOID = 0.0251 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 325.34685 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.90759649 Peri. 124.04537 +0.74941692 -0.65966741
a 1.0565114 Node 277.29836 +0.58707211 +0.70164215
e 0.2747368 Incl. 3.27612 +0.30613823 +0.26932732
P 1.09 H 22.3 G...
'Animal Pompeii' wiped out China's ancient creatures The puzzle of how a 120-million-year-old animal graveyard in China formed may have been solved. Scientists believe that the creatures from the lower Cretaceous era were instantly killed by volcanic eruptions similar to the violent blast tha...
The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 3,400 kg Mark 15 hydrogen bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. Read more
The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 was a catastrophic and historic nor'easter that brought blizzard conditions to the New England region of the United States and the New York metropolitan area. The "Blizzard of '78" formed on February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7, 197...
