Orbital elements:
2013 ML3 Earth MOID = 0.0031 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 343.56042 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30511084 Peri. 4.40777 -0.23287744 +0.95928546
a 2.1852323 Node 252.18685 -0.89730995 -0.27531037
e 0.5349990 Incl. 9.66331 -0.37497060 +0.06305239
P 3.23 H 22.1 G 0....
Palenque (Bàak' in Modern Maya) was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. The Palenque ruins date back to 226 BC to its fall around 1123 AD. After its decline, it was absorbed into the jungle, which is made up of cedar, mahogany, and sapodilla trees, but has been excava...
The SOLar RADiation satellite program (SOLRAD) was conceived in the late 1950s to study the Sun's effects on Earth, particularly during periods of heightened solar activity. Solrad 1 is launched on June 22, 1960, aboard a Thor Able from Cape Canaveral at 1:54 a.m. EDT. As the world's first orbiting...
The Matariki Festival in Auckland begins on 22nd June with a dawn Karakia at the summit of Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill). Following the dawn Karakia the Maungakiekie-Tmaki Local Board is hosting a range of morning family activities at the Stardome Observatory and Planetarium. Read more
Scientists are gearing up to launch a sounding rocket from NASAs Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. for a five-minute trip to study a global, electrical current called the dynamo sweeping through the ionosphere. The sounding rocket is also called Dynamo. The window for launch is June 24...
Nicholas Sanduleak (June 22, 1933 in Lackawanna, New York, USA - May 7, 1990) was an American astronomer. He produced a catalogue of stars in the Magellanic Clouds which included the star Sanduleak -69° 202, the progenitor of the supernova SN 1987A. The asteroid 9403 Sanduleak is named after him. [u...
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken (born 1934) is an American theoretical physicist. Bjorken discovered what is known as light-cone scaling, (or "Bjorken scaling") a phenomenon in the deep inelastic scattering of light on strongly interacting particles, known as hadrons (such a...
The Erakot (CM2 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Madhya Pradesh, India, on the 22nd June, 1940. A total mass of 113 g was recovered. 19° 2' 0"N, 81° 53' 30"E
The Malotas (H5 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, on the 22nd June, 1931. A total mass of 3 kg was recovered. 28° 56'S, 63° 14'W
Title: Masses and Distance of the Young Binary NTTS 045251+3016 Authors: M. Simon (Stony Brook), G. H. Schaefer (GSU/CHARA), L. Prato (Lowell), Dary Ruiz-Rodriguez (Lowell), N. Karnath (Lowell), O. G. Franz (Lowell), L. H. Wasserman (Lowell) As part of our continuing campaign to measure the mas...
Title: On the eclipsing cataclysmic variable star HBHA 4705-03 Authors: A.Rutkowski (1), T. Ak (2), T. R. Marsh (3), Z. Eker (4) ((1) Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, (2) Istanbul University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences,...
The Ploschkovitz (L5 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Severocesky, Czech Republic, on the 22nd June, 1723. A total mass of 39 g was recovered. 50° 32'N, 14° 7'ETitle: Revisitation of an XVIII Century Meteorite: - Ploschkovitz Authors: Levi-Donati, G. R. & Prinz, M. [url=http://adsabs.harvard...
A Peculiar Fireball on June 21, 1937 On the evening of June 21, 1937, before the sky was completely dark, a peculiar fireball that left a very remarkable train was observed by the writer in Tokyo. Fortunately the fireball was seen by several people from various places other than Tokyo; hence the write...
[From Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy] On 21 June 1994, José Martin was driving his car from Madrid to Marbella, in Spain, when a 1.4-kg meteorite crashed through his windscreen, ricocheted off the dashboard and injured the drivers finger, fortunately not seriously. More than 50 fragment...
