* Astronomy

The Borodino (H5) meteorite fell in Moskovskaya oblast', Russia, on the 5th September, 1812. A total mass of 500 g was recovered. 55° 28'N, 35° 52'E

One of the greatest feats of Victorian exploration took place on 5th September, 1862 at Stafford Road Gasworks in Wolverhampton. It consisted of a balloon flight that greatly increased our knowledge of the atmosphere, and helped to lead the way to modern weather forecasting. There were other ball...

Twin Spica is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kou Yaginuma. It was serialised in the seinen manga magazine Comic Flapper from September 2001 to August 2009 and was later published in 16 tankbon volumes by Media Factory from January 2002 to October 2009. Read more

The 13 - 30 metre wide asteroid 2013 QE16 will make a close pass (8.2 lunar distances, 0.0210 AU), travelling at 4.45 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th September, 2013 @ 11:43 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....

250 Bettina is a large main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on September 3, 1885 in Vienna. It was named in honour of Baroness Bettina von Rothschild, the wife of the prominent Viennese banker Albert Salomon von Rothschild who had bought the naming rights for £...

J002E3 is the designation given to a supposed asteroid discovered by amateur astronomer Bill Yeung on September 3, 2002. Further examination revealed the object was not a rock asteroid but instead the S-IVB third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket (serial S-IVB-507) Read more

The Teen Age Message (TAM) was a series of interstellar radio transmissions sent from the Yevpatoria Planetary Radar to six solar-type stars during August-September 2001. A Teen Age Message, was sent to 47 Ursae Majoris on September 3, 2001, and it will arrive at 47 Ursae Majoris in July 2047. Read m...

An Amateur Astronomy Gathering Presented by the RASC Edmonton Centre Sep 3-8, 2013 Black Nugget Lake http://edmontonrasc.com/public/nps.html

A thousand-ton meteor exploded in the atmosphere a year ago, releasing the power of a nuclear bomb and leaving behind an unusual dusty trail that has raised questions about the ways extraterrestrial material finds its way to Earth's surface and the geological record. The meteor exploded over An...

The Santa Cruz (CM2) meteorite fell in Tamaulipas, Mexico, on the 3rd September, 1939. A total mass of 60 g was recovered. 24° 10'N, 99° 20'W

The Grzempach (H5) meteorite fell in Pila, Poland, on the 3rd September, 1910. A total mass of 690 g was recovered. 52° 52'N, 16° 38'E

The Lissa (L6) meteorite fell in Stredocesky, Czech Republic, on the 3rd September, 1808. A total mass of 12.8 kg was recovered. 50° 12'N, 14° 51'E

A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying the Yaogan XVII remote-sensing satellite blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, Sept. 2, 2013. Read more [spoiler][/s...

Title: Becker's Nova Circini No. 2 1926 Authors: Cannon, A. J. Read more

The 38 - 84 metre wide asteroid 2013 PD39 will make a close pass (29.7 lunar distances, 0.0764 AU), travelling at 11.31 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd September, 2013 @ 09:37 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...