* Astronomy

Title: The meteoroid above Mediterranean Sea on July, 6th 2002 was a fragment of a cometary nucleus? Authors: Churyumov, Klim I.; Kruchynenko, Vitaly G.; Chubko, Larissa S.; Churyumova, Tatyana K. It is shown, that the explosion of the bolide above the Mediterranean sea on July, 6th 2002 with a hig...

Feeding Galaxy Caught in Distant Searchlight Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas. Gas is seen to fall inwards towards the galaxy, creating a flow that both fuels star formation and drives the galaxy's rotation. This is the bes...

The Geidam (H5 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Yobe, Nigeria, on the 6th July, 1950. A total mass of 725 g was recovered. 12° 55'N, 11° 55'E

Según habitantes de la vivienda, el trozo de piedra traspasó una lámina de zinc del techo de la cocina. Miembros de asociaciones de astrónomos aseguran que éste corresponde a restos del meteoro que habría explotado en el centro del Valle. Un fragmento de lo que sería el meteoro o bólido que habría caí...

Albareto, Modena ; 44° 41' N., 10° 27' E. ; fell 1766, 6 July, 17.00 hours. Spherical olivine-hypersthene ehondrite. One stone of about 12 Kg. Source (PDF)

New website: Solar prominences for today.

Orbital elements: 2013 NU Earth MOID = 0.2728 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 330.20120 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27748899 Peri. 184.87062 +0.44766938 +0.88944905 a 2.3279423 Node 111.74851 -0.81702838 +0.44869487 e 0.4464642 Incl. 5.68736 -0.36339614 +0.08690975 P 3.55 H 21.3 G 0...

Sunspots 11787, 11785 and 11784 captured with a 100mm refractor + webcam. Ultraviolet images with a 114mm reflector. Music via an Amiga 1200

The poplifugia or populifugia (Latin: the day of the people's flight), was a festival of ancient Rome celebrated on July 5, according to Varro, in commemoration of the flight of the Romans, when the inhabitants of Ficuleae and Fidenae appeared in arms against them, shortly after the burning of the c...

Jean Godin des Odonais (July 5, 1713 Saint-Amand-Montrond, France - March 1, 1792 Paris) was a French cartographer and naturalist. Read more

Harry Hemley Plaskett FRS (July 5, 1893 - January 26, 1980) was a Canadian astronomer who made significant contributions to the fields of solar physics, astronomical spectroscopy and spectrophotometry. From 1932 to 1960, he served as the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxfo...

Louise Freeland Jenkins (July 5, 1888 - May 9, 1970) was an American astronomer. From 1913 to 1915 she worked at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh. She was noted for her research into the trigonometric parallax of nearby stars. She also studied variable stars. [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...

Dolly (5 July 1996 - 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics n...

Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. He served on four Space Shuttle missions. Read more

Title: Deaths reported as from a meteor Authors: Wylie, C. C. Meteor Kills Three Paris, July 5 [1934] "A blazing meteor is believed to have caused the destruction by fire of a building in a village near Besancon. According to eye-witnesses the meteor struck the roof of the house, a loud detonati...