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The Guangrao (L6 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Shandong, China, on the 21st June, 1980. 1615 hrs A total mass of 1900 g was recovered. 37°6'N., 118°24'E Read more

The Trysil (L/LL6 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Hedmark, Norway, on the 21st June, 1927. A total mass of 640 g was recovered. 61° 18'N, 12° 18'E

The Leeuwfontein (L6 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Gauteng, South Africa, on the 21st June, 1912. A total mass of 460 g was recovered. 25° 40'S, 28° 22'E

The Clohars (L4) meteorite fell in France, on the 21st June, 1822. A total mass of 48.6 g was recovered. Location: unknown We know little about this meteorite. It only appears in 1897 in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris when Stanislas Meunier buys from a lady a meteori...

Born Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, 1856 Died Bournemouth, Dorset, England, 1 May 1938 Walter Goodacre was the preeminent British selenographer of the early 20th century. His monograph on the Moon was considered a primary resource for selenographers for several decades after its pub...

Bright Fireball Observed on 17th June 2013 This video of a bright fireball was captured by the Armagh Observatory's automatic meteor detection system at 23:32 GMT on the 17th of June 2013 (00:32 British Summer Time on the 18th of June). [url=http://star.arm.ac.uk/meteor-cam/2013/]See more[/u...

Mary R. Calvert (June 20, 1884 - June 1974) was an American astronomer. Read more

In ancient Roman religion, Summanus was the god of nocturnal thunder, as counterposed to Jupiter, the god of diurnal (daylight) thunder. His precise nature was unclear even to Ovid. The temple of Summanus was dedicated during the Pyrrhic War c. 278 BCE on June 20. It stood at the west of the Circus Max...

Sunspots 11775, 11774, 11773, 11770, 11772 and 11776 captured with a 100mm refractor, and ultraviolet images with a 114mm reflector + Webcam

The Madiun (L6 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Jawa Timur, 20 miles south of Madiun, Indonesia, on the 20th June, 1935. A total mass of 400 g was recovered. 7°45'S., 111°32'E

The St. Mary's County (LL3.3 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Maryland, USA, on the 20th June, 1919. A total mass of 24.3 g was recovered. 38° 10'N, 76° 23'W Read more

The Lancon (H6 Chondrite) meteorite fell in Bouches du Rhone, France, on the 20th June, 1879. A total mass of 7kg was recovered. 43° 45'N, 5° 7'E

The Pnompehn (L6) meteorite fell in Phnum Penh, Cambodia, on the 20-30th June, 1868. 15:00 local time A total mass of 96 g was recovered. 11°35' N, I04°55' E

Four years in the making, the $93 million makeover of Griffith Park Observatory in the city of Los Angeles, US, is nearly complete. Scheduled to open this autumn, the 71-year-old Beaux Arts icon has been painstakingly prese...

A magnitude 15.9 supernova, 2009gj, was discovered on the 20th June, 2009, by S. Parker in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 134 in the constellation Sculptor. The supernova is located 82" east and 102" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA = 00 30 2...