* Astronomy

The Fuhe (L5) meteorite fell in Hubei, China, on the ?? June, 1945. A total recovered weight of 23 kg was recovered. Latitude: 31° 28' 32"N, Longitude: 113° 34' 1"E In June, 1945, a stone fell into the backyard of Mr. Chen, who lived in Dongjiagang village, Fuhe town, Suizhou city, Hubei pro...

The Brent crater is an impact crater in both the geographic township of Deacon, Unorganised South Nipissing District and the municipal township of Papineau-Cameron in Nipissing District, northeastern Ontario, Canada, located north of Cedar Lake in northern Algonquin Provincial Park. It is 3....

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Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his seminal approach, combining quantum field theory and the statistical theory of critical phenomena of second-order phase transitions, i.e...

Laser technology reveals lost city around Angkor Wat Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roads and canals, illustrating the remains of a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex. The discovery was announced late on Monday in a peer-reviewed pap...

The Dearborn Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The cornerstone for the building was laid on on June 21, 1888, and the dedication took place on June 19, 1889. In the summer of 1939, Dearborn Observatory had to be moved to make way fo...

It looks like a soap bubble or perhaps even a camera fault, but the image at right is a newly discovered planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its out...

Andrew David Thackeray (19 June 1910 - 21 February 1978), was an astronomer trained at Cambridge University. He specialised in stellar spectroscopy. At a conference of the International Astronomical Union in Rome in 1952, he presented results of studies of variable stars in the Magellanic Cloud...

The Vago (Stone, H6, ordinary chondrite) meteorite fell in Veneto, Italy, on the 19th June, 1668 or 1688. A total mass of 136 or 200 kg was recovered. 3 pieces are housed by the Paris and Vienna museums. 45° 25'N, 11° 8'E

The Vavilovka (Stone, LL6, ordinary chondrite) meteorite fell in Kherson Province, Ukraine, on the 19th June, 1876. A total mass of 16 kg was recovered. 46° 9' N, 32° 50' E

The Doroninsk (H5-7) meteorite fell in Chitinskaya oblast', Russia, on the 6th April, 1805. A total mass of 3.89 kg was recovered. 51° 12'N, 112° 18'E

The Olivenza (Stone, LL5, ordinary chondrite) meteorite fell in southern Spain near the Portuguese border on the 19th June, 1924. A total mass of 150 kg was recovered. 38° 43'N, 7° 4'W

Orbital elements: 2010 EO65 Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 347.26684 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00792320 Peri. 270.71915 -0.67498437 +0.72488982 a 24.9192781 Node 315.75484 -0.57389275 -0.63300155 e 0.4381384 Incl. 11.37302 -0.46372752 -0.27174213 P 124.40 H 9.6 G 0.15 U 4MPEC 2011 -...

NASA TV Provides Coverage of Space Station Cargo Ship Activities Progress M-19M/51P is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:12 UT (4:12 p.m. Kazakh time) Wednesday, April 24. NASA TV coverage of the launch will begin at 10:00 UT. Progress 51 will take two days to catc...

Sunspots 11775, 11774, 11773, 11770, 11772, 11769 and 11768 captured with a 100mm refractor (ultraviolet images via a 114mm reflector)