* Astronomy

Title: Thirty years of SN 1980K: Evidence for light echoes Authors: Ben E. K. Sugerman, Jennifer E. Andrews, Michael J. Barlow, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Barbara Ercolano, Parviz Ghavamian, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., Oliver Krause, Margaret Meixner, Masaaki Otsuka We report optical and mid-infrared...

The Kaprada (L5/6) meteorite fell in Gujarat, India, on the 28th October, 2004. A total mass of 1600 g was recovered. 20° 20' 21"N, 73° 13' 24"E

Soviet Moon Mystery Solved By NASA, 50 Years Later Luna 15 marks the Soviet Union's intersection with Apollo; Luna 15, the third designed for a sample collection and return, was launched three days before Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history's first manned lun...

Unclassified North West African meteorite stolen from a charity event at the NWAstroFest2013 meeting on the 26th October, 2013

The Lafayette meteorite has an unknown provenance. It was rediscovered in 1931 in Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Lafayette is a single oriented 800 gram stone with a fusion crust showing well-developed flow features. Isotopic techniques have produced ages of 1.33 Ga (Ar-Ar) and 1....

George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 - October 12, 2013) was an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig-Haro objects Read more

The Bilanga (Diogenite) meteorite fell in Gnagna, Burkina Faso, on the 27th October, 1999. A total mass of 25 kg was recovered. 12° 27'N, 0° 5'W

The Akwanga (H chondrite) meteorite fell in Plateau, Nigeria, on the 2nd July, 1959. A total mass of 3 kg was recovered. 8° 55'N, 8° 26'E

Solar Storm Forecast 10-24-2013

Solar Storm Forecast 10-24-2013

Sterling Gazette 23 September 1892 A Mammoth Aerolite? What is believed to be the largest aerolite ever known to have fallen is lying in the Caspian Sea, a short distance from the peninsular of Apsheron. The aerolite made a terrific noise as it rushed through the air with incredible speed, and the whi...

Yesterday morning a meteor was observed by the operator at Riggs Station, lowa, passing directly from east to west, it was red In color, and omitted flashes of bluish fire as it passed Read more

The 4 - 8.5 metre wide asteroid 2013 UX2 made a close pass (0.4 lunar distances, 0.0010 AU), travelling at 4.37 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th October, 2013 @ 15:29 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...

Asteroid (5057) 1987 DC6 will occult 4.4 mag star Xi Orionis at 18:05 UT, 27th October 2013. The event is visible for observers along a path across Australia, SE Asia, India. Read more

A bright bolide was reported by several observers in northwest Europe during the night of 2001, October 27. Read more

NGC 366 (also OCL 316) is a magnitude +10.0 open cluster located 5,822 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. The open cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on t...