* Astronomy

The high-resolution telescope on Deep Impact, NASA's spacecraft that will smash into Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, has been found to have blurry vision. The high resolution telescope wasn't fully focused after a `bake-out`, a proc...

Large meteor seen over Sierra sky this morning Earth day 2012 started out with a boom this morning when a ground shaking explosion was heard by residents in El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, and San Joaquin counties. Dozens of callers reported seeing a 'meteor' over the Sierra sky at approxi...

Title: Will 3552 Don Quixote Escape from the Solar System? Authors: Suryadi Siregar Asteroid 1983 SA, well known as 3552 Don Quixote, is one of Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) which is the most probable candidate for the cometary origin, or otherwise as Jupiter-Family-Comets (JFCs). The aim of this st...

The Karatu (LL6) meteorite fell in Arusha, Tanzania, on the 11th September, 1963. A total mass of 2.22 kg was recovered. 3° 30'S, 35° 35'E

The Arbol Solo (H5) meteorite fell in San Luis, Argentina, on the 11th September, 1954. A total mass of 0.810 kg was recovered. 33°S, 66°W

The 54 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2013 PH3 will make a close pass (37.4 lunar distances, 0.0960 AU), travelling at 5.67 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th September, 2013 @ 15:19 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...

Cornell's satellite wins first prize of a NASA launch -- far, far above Cayuga's waters Over the past two years, Cornell's CUSat satellite project has engaged and educated a parade of engineering students, sometimes changing their careers. Now the final product -- an innovative experiment in out...

The Battle of Vienna took place on 11 and 12 September 1683. After the battle of Vienna, the newly identified constellation Scutum (Latin for shield) was originally named Scutum Sobiescianum by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, in honor of Jan III Sobieski. While there are some few stars named aft...

NASA official confirms that meteor, or 'fireball,' passed over Alabama "It was a meteor, a fireball, and a very bright one," said Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environments Office at the Marshall Space Flight Centre. The meteor appeared at 8:18 p.m. local time, according to Cooke. R...

The Undulung (L4) meteorite fell in Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia, on the 11th September, 1986. A total mass of 113.4 g was recovered. 66° 8' 20"N, 124° 46' 0"E The crew of a helicopter, while in flight, saw an object falling nearby. The object landed on a bar in the Undulung River, a r...

Title: Further Remarks on the Ridgecrest, California, Aerolite (CN-1176,356) Authors: Leonard, F. C. The interesting little 9.6 gram aerolite found by Lee E. Humiston on May 24, 1958, about 5 miles east of Ridgecrest county, California and described by him in the preceding paper, constitutes th...

The Lishui (L5) meteorite fell in Jiangsu, China, on the 10th September, 1978. A total mass of 0.498 kg was recovered. 31° 38'N, 118° 59'E

The Oldenburg (L6) meteorite fell in Niedersachsen, Germany, on the 10th September, 1930. A total mass of 16.57 kg was recovered. 52° 57'N, 8° 10'E

Resident Evil: Afterlife is a 2010 3D science-fiction action film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, and Wentworth Miller. The film marks Anderson's second time to direct in the series, the firs...

Bristol team to mark 2,500th anniversary of the first marathon A team of runners, sponsored by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol, will be running the Bristol Half Marathon this Sunday [11 September] to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary year of t...