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Orbital elements: C/2013 G5 (Catalina) T 2013 Sept. 1.13496 TT MPC q 0.9276348 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 165.83790 +0.67525817 +0.63126501 Node 144.01633 -0.72402552 +0.66600817 e 1.0 Incl. 40.48703 -0.14076028 -0.39741364 From 61 observations 2013 Apr. 13-16. MPEC 2013 - H06 Key to Orbital...

The Palca de Aparzo (L5) meteorite fell in Jujuy, Argentina, on the 14th September, 1988. A total mass of 1.430 kg was recovered. 23° 7'S, 65° 6'W

The Aubres (Aubrite) meteorite fell in Rhone-Alpes, France, on the 14th September, 1836. A total mass of 0.800 kg was recovered. 44° 23'N, 5° 10'E

The Qingzhen (EH3) meteorite fell in Guizhou, China, on the 13th September, 1976. A total mass of 2.6 kg was recovered. 26° 32'N, 106° 28'E

The Kainsaz (CO3.2) meteorite fell in Respublika Tatarstan, Russia, on the 13th September, 1937. A total mass of 200 kg was recovered. 55° 26'N, 53° 15'E

The Crumlin (L5) meteorite fell in Northern Ireland, UK, on the 13th September, 1902. A total mass of 4.26 kg was recovered. 54° 37'N, 6° 13'W

The Epinal (H5) meteorite fell in Lorraine, France, on the 13th September, 1822. A total mass of 0.277 kg was recovered. 48° 11'N, 6° 28'E

On 13 September 1253, an entry in the astronomical report Koryo-sa indicated that Mars had hidden the star to the south-east of the twenty-eight mansions sign Ghost (Chinese constellation) (Delta Cancri), while in reality, it approached the star north-west of the asterism (Eta Cancri). Source

Voyager Spacecraft Enters Solar System's Final Frontier: NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the solar system's final frontier. It is entering a vast, turbulent expanse, where the sun's influence ends and the solar wind crashes into the thin gas between stars. "Voyager...

At 06:46:54 UT, 13th Sept, 2008 the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) detected a distant gamma ray burst, GRB 080913. The reported redshift estimate is z = 6.44 ± 0.3, which makes it the most distant gamma ray burst ever detected. Position(2000): RA = 04h 22m 54.72s, Dec = -25d 07' 46.0" [u...

The Eastern Sahara desert is largely unoccupied by humans, yet according to new evidence in today's issue of the U.S. journal Science, ancient humans once inhabited these lands by following rainfall patterns. Evidence from early occupation sites and archaeological remains suggests that A...

An international team of researchers led by Oxford University has new dating evidence indicating when the earliest fully modern humans arrived in the Near East, the region known as the Middle East today. They have obtained the radiocarbon dates of marine shell beads found at Ksar Akil, a key archae...

The 39 - 88 metre wide asteroid 2013 RE36 will make a close pass (35.3 lunar distances, 0.0907 AU), travelling at 23.05 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th September, 2013 @ 15:00 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...

The Friday morning tremors experienced by south Bangaloreans has been attributed to a meteorite shower in Hosur taluk, according to preliminary investigations conducted by a combined team of Geological Survey of India (GSI) and Forensic Science Laboratory, Chennai. The meteorites slammed in...

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Rocket moves to Launch Pad