The 180 - 400 metre wide asteroid 2013 YL70 will make a close pass (54.5 lunar distances, 0.1400 AU), travelling at 20.58 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th January 2014 @ 14:32 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...
The 10 - 21 metre wide asteroid 2014 AW32 will make a close pass (0.5 lunar distances, 0.0012 AU), travelling at 12.37 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th January 2014 @ 21:40 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Mystery of East Yorkshire 'loud explosion' deepens as Met Office says satellite images rule out thunder Weather experts have ruled out a thunderclap as the reason for a loud bang that woke people up in the early hours of Thursday morning. Dozens of people from Hull to Withernsea reported hearing the...
The 1693 Sicily earthquake refers to a powerful earthquake that struck parts of southern Italy, notably Sicily, Calabria and Malta on January 11, 1693 around 9 pm local time. This earthquake was preceded by a damaging foreshock on January 9th. It had an estimated magnitude of 7.4 on the moment magni...
Burghead Hogmanay Opinions differ as to the roots of the ancient festival of the Burning of the Clavie, condemned in the eighteenth century as "an abominable heathenish practice". But even in the third millennium it still goes on... Pictish, Celtic, Viking or Roman in origin, the Burni...
On 11 January 1998, sensors aboard DOD satellites detected the impact of a meteoroid at 07:11:13 UTC roughly midway between Denver and Grand Junction, Colorado. The object was detected at 39.4 degrees North Latitude, 106.4 degrees West Longitude. Read more
STS-72 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to capture and return to Earth a Japanese microgravity research spacecraft known as Space Flyer Unit (SFU). The mission launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida on January 11, 1996. Read more
The AngloZulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Lord Chelmsford, the Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the war, moved his troops from Pietermaritzburg to a forward camp at Helpmekaar, past Greytown. On 9 January 1879 they moved to Rorke's Drift, and...
NGC 2132 (also OCL 567) is a group of stars surrounding the magnitude +8.0 star SAO 234207 located 3178 light-years away in the constellation Pictor. The grouping was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape To...
NGC 2545 (also UGC 4287, MCG 4-20-7, GWT 119.16, IRAS08113 2130 or PGC 23086) is a magnitude +12.4 barred spiral galaxy located 156 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflectin...
NGC 2595 (also UGC 4422, IRAS08247 2138, MCG 4-20-62, 3ZW 59, GWT 119.109, 21.0182 NPM1G or PGC 23725) is a magnitude +12.3 barred spiral galaxy located 199 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5...
NGC 2890 (also MCG -2-24-24, PGC 26778) is a magnitude +14.5 elliptical galaxy located 234 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope...
The Lavrentievka (L6) meteorite fell in Orenburgskaya oblast', Russia, on the 11th January, 1938. A total mass of 800 g was recovered. 52° 27'N, 51° 34'E
Francium is a chemical element with symbol Fr and atomic number 87. It was formerly known as eka-caesium and actinium K. It is one of the two least electronegative elements, the other being caesium, and is the second rarest naturally occurring element (after astatine). Francium is a highly radioac...
