* Astronomy

The Curtiss Cross (IAU designation "Fra Mauro Zeta"), an X-shaped illumination effect similar to the first quarter lunar X on the moon, can be seen at ~10:30 UT, 31st July, (just past Last Quarter Moon) between the Parry and Gambart craters in the Fra Mauro region See more

A bolide was seen between Halwad and Naliya in Jamnagar and Bhuj, Gujarat, India at 9:30pm on July 31, 2006. Sonic booms, and a meteorite fall were reported in the Little Rann of Kutch.

The Wuan (H6 chondrite) meteorite fell in Hebei, China, on the 31st July, 1986. A total mass of 50 kg was recovered. 36° 45'N, 114° 15'E

The 23 kilometres in diameter Haughton impact crater is located on Devon Island, Nunavut in far northern Canada. It formed about 39 million years ago (late Eocene). The impacting object is estimated to have been approximately two kilometres in diameter. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha...

Asteroid (69230) Hermes is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid that passed Earth at about twice the distance of the Moon on October 30, 1937. It is named after the Greek god Hermes.At the time, this was the closest known approach of an asteroid to the Earth.Read more

Magpie was a British children's television programme shown on ITV from 30 July 1968 to 6 June 1980.Read more

USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class cruiser of the United States Navy. She holds a place in history due to the circumstances of her sinking, which led to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy. On 30 July 1945, shortly after delivering critical parts for the fi...

Mercury: at magnitude -0.3, starts the month in the constellation of Gemini. The planet is in conjunction on the 9th and unobservable until the last week of the month. Mercury (1.3 mag) is close (1.1° separated) to Regulus on the 22nd. Mercury is at its Greatest Elongation (19.6° West) on the 30th...

The Alpha Capricornids are active from a wide radiant located in western Aquarius, three degrees northeast of the fourth magnitude star Epsilon Aquarii. Current rates are about one per hour. They have a velocity of 23 km/sec. Active: Jul 3 —August 15; Maximum: July 30 (λ = 127°); ZHR = 4; ...

STS-51-F (also known as Spacelab 2) was the nineteenth flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed just under eight days later on 6 August. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Yuriy Drohobych wrote a treatise about the solar eclipse that took place on July 29, 1478. Read more

Empire of the Ants is a 1977 science fiction horror film Read more

Orbital elements: 2013 OY3 Earth MOID = 0.0064 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 356.95628 (2000.0) P Q n 1.29204820 Peri. 45.77081 -0.89210188 -0.45018327 a 0.8348663 Node 107.43879 +0.40216658 -0.83006717 e 0.3432608 Incl. 2.31825 +0.20595211 -0.32912539 P 0.76 H 24.7 G 0...

Orbital elements: 2013 ND24 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0023 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 310.81010 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33723930 Peri. 95.76716 +0.84417916 -0.53306247 a 2.0441398 Node 296.45764 +0.46339617 +0.77876552 e 0.7435395 Incl. 3.62610 +0.26949125 +0.33070933 P 2.92 H 2...

The Patwar (Mesosiderite-A1) meteorite fell in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on the 29th July, 1935. A total mass of 37.35 kg was recovered. 23° 9'N, 91° 11'E