The "Welcome Stranger" is the name given to the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, which had a calculated refined weight of 2,283 oz 6 dwts 9 gr. It measured 61 cm by 31 cm, and was discovered by Cornish prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 at Moliagul, Victoria...
The Great Comet of 1843 formally designated C/1843 D1 and 1843 I, was a long-period comet which became very bright in March 1843 (it is also known as the Great March Comet). It was discovered on February 5, 1843 and rapidly brightened to become a great comet. It was a member of the Kreutz Sungrazers, a fa...
Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know what to wear: Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat! That's the situation on a weird, wobbly world found by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The planet, designated Kepler-413b, is l...
The 62 Pompeii earthquake occurred on 5 February. It had an estimated magnitude of between 5 and 6 and a maximum intensity of XI or X on the Mercalli intensity scale. The towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were severely damaged. Read more
The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Calabria in southern Italy (then part of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies), the first two of which produced significant tsunamis. Read more
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American black-and-white science fiction film directed by Don Siegel, starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, that was released through Allied Artists Picture Corporation. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 novel The Bod...
NGC 3877 (also IRAS 11434+4746, MCG 8-22-2, UGC 6745 and PGC 36699) is a magnitude +11.2 spiral galaxy located 49.57 million light-years away in Ursa Major. It is positioned below the magnitude +3.7 star Chi Ursae Majoris. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel...
NGC 3089 (also ESO 435-24, MCG -5-24-14, AM 0957-280 and PGC 28882) is a magnitude +12.5 barred spiral galaxy located 125 million light-years away in Antlia. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at the Cape of Good Hope on the...
NGC 2580 (also OCL 709, Collinder 183 and ESO 431-SC6) is a magnitude +9.7 open cluster located 13,050 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at the Cape of Good Hope on the 5th Feb...
NGC 2559 (also ESO 494-41, IRAS 08150-2718, MCG -4-20-3, CGMW 2-3078, UGC A 136 and PGC 23222) is a magnitude +10.9 barred spiral galaxy located 72 million lightyears away in the constellation Puppis. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflect...
Orbital elements:
2014 BJ25 Earth MOID = 0.0896 AU
Epoch 2013 Nov. 4.0 TT = JDT 2456600.5 MPC
M 328.59186 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.32415555 Peri. 14.82632 -0.78582117 -0.61574675
a 2.0987808 Node 127.02006 +0.55979681 -0.74790561
e 0.4875565 Incl. 4.15154 +0.26289281 -0.24797809
P 3.04 H 24.6 G 0...
The 70 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2009 CG made a close pass (51.0 lunar distances, 0.1311 AU), travelling at 12.93 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th February, 2014 @ 17:37 UT ±1 day 08:29. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
At about 4:30 on Wednesday afternoon, the small Norwegian village of Nord-Statland was struck by a localised tsunami, which reports have suggested was as high as 15 m (though this looks unlikely). The village is located in Nord-Trøndelag Read more
