TUMBUKAN METEOR GIANYAR, BALI, INDONESIA 1 JANUARY 2008 00:30 WITA Pada 1 Januari 2008 pukul 00:30 WITA Ida Ayu Made Puspa, Wayan Rajin, Nyoman Warta dan penduduk lainnya di Banjar Gelumpang, Sukawati, Kabupaten Gianyar (Bali), mendengar dentuman keras yang menyertai kilatan sinar turun dari l...
The 700 - 1600 metre wide asteroid (6239) Minos will make a close pass (38.3 lunar distances, 0.0985 AU), travelling at 10.17 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th August, 2010 @ 21:07 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...
The 310 - 680 metre wide asteroid 2010 XZ67 will make a close pass (24.9 lunar distances, 0.0639 AU), travelling at 8.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th December 2013 @ 23:49 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
The Zeta Aurigids are a weak shower with a northern and southern branch lasting from December 11 to January 21. The shower peaks on January 1 and has very slow meteors, with a maximum rate of 15 meteors per hour. It was discovered by William Denning in 1886 and was discovered to be the source of rare fireb...
The Molniya-3 Soviet communications satellites were used to create the 'Orbita' communications system for northern regions, with groups of four satellites. Launch Date: 1993-08-04 Launch Vehicle: Molniya Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia Mass: 1600.0 kg Read more
El Salvador's Chaparrastique volcano erupts for first time in 37 years El Salvador's Chaparrastique volcano erupted Sunday, sending a dark cloud of ash miles into the sky, forcing thousands to evacuate from their homes and snarling travel in the Central American country as airlines cancelled fl...
University of Texas Students, Telescopes Help Discover Planets Around Elderly Binary Star An international consortium of astronomers, including undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin, have discovered a planetary system consisting of at least two massive Ju...
Possible meteor shakes Brainerd The sonic boom that shook the Brainerd lakes area Friday night was likely a meteor, according to the National Weather Service in Duluth. Reports of flashes of light and building-shaking booms started flowing in between 9:30-10:30 p.m. Friday. Read more
NGC 5037 (also MCG -3-34-29, IRAS13123-1619, and PGC 46078) is a magnitude +12.2 inclined spiral galaxy located 87 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 a...
NGC 3708 is a lost object, possibly a quasar, located in the constellation Leo. The object was discovered by American astronomer Ormond Stone using a 66 cm (26-inch) f/14.9 Alvan Clark refractor at the Leander-McCormick observatory at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, on t...
NGC 2848 (also MCG -3-24-7, UGCA 160, IRAS 09178-1618, and PGC 26404) is a magnitude +11.8 barred spiral galaxy located 94 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 refle...
NGC 2811 (also MCG -3-24-3, UGCA 155, IRAS09138-1606, and PGC 26151) is a magnitude +11.4 inclined barred spiral galaxy located 109 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 spec...
NGC 2358 is a magnitude +13.7 open cluster located 2055 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Clayhall Farm House in Old Windsor, on the 31st December 1785...
NGC 2192 (also Lund 212, Cr 86 and OCL 437) is a magnitude +10.9 open cluster located 11308 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough, on the 3...
