Viking DNA expert leads longboat raid in Norway A 54-strong 'Viking Navy' led by a University of Nottingham scientist and Viking expert has carried out an unusual expedition to Norway, to row the largest replica Viking longship ever built. Professor Stephen Harding and his crew of Viking enthusia...
21 Jun 1921 - NARRACOORTE. A BRILLIANT METEOR. June 20, About 20 minutes to 10 o'clock on Wednesday night several residents here heard a rumbling noise something; like the roll if distant thunder, finishing: up with a sound like a number of rifle shots fired irregularly. [url=http://trove.nla.go...
The Karee Kloof (Iron) meteorite fell in Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1914. A total mass of 92.1 kg was recovered. 31° 36'S, 25° 48'E Through the kindness of Mr. F. W. FitzSimons, Director of the PorL Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, pieces of this iron were placed at the disposal of the writer for exa...
The Sun Emits an M5.9 Solar Flare The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 6:49 p.m. on June 7, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense eno...
William Simms (7 December 1793 - 21 June 1860) was a British scientific instrument maker. Simms specialised in surveying instruments and from 1817 supplied theodolites to the Ordnance Survey and then to the East India Company, including those used by George Everest. On a larger scale he supplied t...
Georg Balthazar von Neumayer (21 June 1826 - 24 May 1909), was a German polar explorer and scientist who conceived the idea of international cooperation for meteorology and scientific observation. Read more
Hugh Frank Newall FRS (21 June 1857 - 22 Feb. 1944) was a British astrophysicist. He was Professor of Astrophysics at Cambridge. He was the son of Robert Stirling Newall FRS and his wife Mary, daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson, FRS. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 HR15 Earth MOID = 0.2684 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 14.67007 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25509984 Peri. 332.14661 +0.54725965 -0.69772153
a 2.4622336 Node 80.91645 +0.82821620 +0.37180665
e 0.7372630 Incl. 27.91354 +0.12068476 +0.61232710
P 3.86 H 16.9 G...
Title: X-ray observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2029 to the virial radius Authors: S. A. Walker, A. C. Fabian, J. S. Sanders, M. R. George, Y. Tawara We present Suzaku observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2029, which exploit Suzaku's low particle background to probe the ICM to radii beyond...
Title: A bright-rimmed cloud sculpted by the H ii region Sh2-48 Authors: M. E. Ortega, S. Paron, E. Giacani, M. Rubio, G. Dubner To characterise a bright-rimmed cloud embedded in the HII region Sh2-48 searching for evidence of triggered star formation. We carried out observations towards a region...
An annular solar eclipse will occur on June 21, 2020. Read more The time of Greatest eclipse will occur at 6:41:15 UT, over the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, near the Indian-Tibetan border.
What looks like a celestial hummingbird is really the result of a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy at a whopping 326 million light- years away. The flat disk of the spiral NGC 2936 is warped into the profile of a bird by the gravitational tug of the companion NGC 2937. The object was fi...
The Uchkuduk (L6 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Navoi, Uzbekistan, on the 21st June, 1989, 18:00 local time. A total mass of 1000 g was recovered. A sonic boom and a small dust cloud at the impact site in a sand field was observed by some cow herders. Two fragments in a small crater, totalling about 1 kg, we...
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