On January 19, 2005 Opportunity rover sent images and analyses of the rock Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on Mars by the Mars rover Opportunity in January 2005. The meteorite was formally named Meridiani Planum meteorite by the Meteoritical Society in October...
Orbital elements:
P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)
T 2012 Aug. 27.83945 TT MPC
q 3.4523297 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.04502178 Peri. 213.67930 +0.78959576 -0.61349548
a 7.8256591 Node 184.23014 +0.59415406 +0.76955499
e 0.5588449 Incl. 9.93074 +0.15336062 +0.17722418
P 21.9
From 20 observations 2012 Oc...
NGC 2498 (also UGC 4142, MCG 4-19-15, ZWG 118.34, IRAS 07566 +2507 and PGC 22403) is a magnitude +13.4 almost face-on barred spiral galaxy located 217 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan using a 80.01 cm (...
NGC 2338 (also UGC 4142, MCG 4-19-15, ZWG 118.34, IRAS 07566 +2507 and PGC 22403) is a open cluster located 5870 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, Slough...
Friday, January 17 at 19:06, a beautiful shooting star was seen over a large part of France. It was reported from Lorraine, Alsace, Belgium, Paris and even to Le Mans. Read more Spoiler
China Great Wall Industry Corporation and China Satellite Communications Corporation have signed a cooperation contract ,on November the 9th, to launch Chinasat 9 with a Long March 3B rocket.
According to the contract, China Great Wall Industry Corporation, as the general contractor, will u...
The 230 - 520 metre wide asteroid 2006 JY25 will make a close pass (68.0 lunar distances, 0.1746 AU), travelling at 10.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th January 2014 @ 18:14 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
Luther Hawthorne's story On Jan. 18, 1955, Hawthorne reported that after the meteorite strike, his house filled with smoke and a "peculiar, metal-like gas." One of the fragments smashed the clock on his observatory wall, he told the reporter, then it landed in one of his many volumes on a...
NASAs Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) probe has found a never-before-seen asteroid its first such discovery since it was brought out of hibernation last year, says ANI. NEOWISEs first discovery of its renewed mission came on Dec. 29 - a near-Earth asteroid desig...
Eruption of Shyhzerli volcano causes earthquake in Azerbaijan Eruption of the Shyhzerli volcano - one of the most active and largest mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan, occurred due to an earthquake, head of the Mud Volcanoes Department of Geology Institute of Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences...
The ALHA 81005 (Anorthositic Breccia) meteorite was found in Antarctica, on the 18th January, 1982. A total mass of 31.4 g was recovered. 76° 49' 49"S, 158° 15' 32"E This was the first meteorite identified as a lunar meteorite.
Tagish Lake MeteoriteClick to Play | View Details The ultimate deep-space time capsule, this small black rock plummeted from space carrying organic material dating back 4.5 billion years. Much of the meteorite remains frozen in the Royal Ontario Museums vaults for research, but a sizable piece i...
The Red Lady of Paviland is a fairly complete Upper Paleolithic-era human male skeleton dyed in red ochre. It was the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world and is also the oldest ceremonial burial anywhere in Western Europe so far discovered. The bones were discovered between 1...
