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Orbital elements: 2013 NJ4 Earth MOID = 0.0045 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 243.51758 (2000.0) P Q n 0.82322522 Peri. 239.32153 +0.99699384 +0.07498240 a 1.1275183 Node 116.37203 -0.06152518 +0.91926359 e 0.2014212 Incl. 1.24825 -0.04709492 +0.38643512 P 1.20 H 27.3 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 NH6 Earth MOID = 0.0026 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 349.52064 (2000.0) P Q n 0.70944814 Peri. 69.95119 -0.89815908 -0.17193984 a 1.2450562 Node 98.41760 +0.04315830 -0.95039598 e 0.5871511 Incl. 24.14600 +0.43754729 -0.25919909 P 1.39 H 23.4 G 0...

SPECTACULAR METEOR LONGREACH, July 7. A most peculiar incident is reported from the Muttaburra district. About 4 o'clock one afternoon last week a loud report was heard, which shook the houses on the selections and rattled the crockery on the shelves. [url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/ar...

Meteors Seen By Day 1929 On the morning of Sunday, July 7, at about 10 o'clock, two loud reports similar to those caused by blasting were heard and two fireballs were supposed to have been seen. The fireballs exploded and left a milky-looking cloud behind. Some people living in iron houses thought it w...

The Rundetårn (English: Round Tower) is a 17th-century tower located in central Copenhagen, Denmark. One of the many architectural projects of Christian IV, it was built as an astronomical observatory. It is most noted for its 7.5-turn helical corridor leading to the top, and for the expansive vi...

Moving images were first seen in India on 7 July 1896 in Bombay (now Mumbai), and local filmmaking began in the following year. 1913 saw the release of the first Indian feature-length film, Raja Harishchandra/King Harishchandra, a story from the Mahabharata by D.G. ('Dadasaheb') Phalke, a pionee...

Sir Charles Todd KCMG, FRS (7 July 1826 - 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841-1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847-1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables until engaged by the government of South Australia as the colony's superintend...

Johann Rudolf Wolf (7 July 1816 - 6 December 1893) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. Read more

Sunspots 11787, 11785 and 11784 captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam + Solar filter.

Sunspots captured with a 100mm refractor. Ultraviolet images captured with a 114mm reflector

Orbital elements: 2013 NH4 Earth MOID = 0.0065 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 333.04354 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23743508 Peri. 232.86586 +0.87580786 +0.47639396 a 2.5828913 Node 98.56420 -0.41424347 +0.82433506 e 0.6584664 Incl. 4.49628 -0.24771542 +0.30581124 P 4.15 H 25.8 G 0...

Intelligent travel, cosmic rays and voices. Thu, 26 Apr 12 Duration: 29 mins How to keep the cars of the future moving on the roads of the future. The origins and dangers of cosmic rays, and what factors determine how you speak? Download 13MB (right click & "save target as / link as")

The Ankober (H4 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Shewa, Ethiopia, on the 7th July, 1942. A total mass of 6.5 kg was recovered. 9° 32'N, 39° 43'E

Gaze at the Milky Way in Tokyo Astronomers and businesses are joining in a campaign to turn off the lights in central Tokyo on Saturday, the day of the Tanabata star festival on the lunar calendar. Tokyo Tower in Minato Ward will turn off its lights one hour earlier than usual on Saturday evening, and a s...

449 Hamburga is a large Main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomers Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on October 31, 1899 in Heidelberg. Read more