Vostok 5 (Russian: Orient 5 or East 5) was a joint mission of the Soviet space program together with Vostok 6; as with the previous pair of Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 the two Vostok spacecraft came close to one another in orbit and established a radio link. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_5]Re...
Johann Abraham Ihle (June 14, 1627 - c.1699) was a German amateur astronomer who discovered the first known globular cluster, M22, on August 26, 1665 while observing Saturn in Sagittarius. Read more
Title: Fermi-LAT Observations and A Broadband Study of Supernova Remnant CTB 109 Authors: Daniel Castro, Patrick Slane, Donald C. Ellison, Daniel J. Patnaude CTB 109 (G109.1-1.0) is a Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) with a hemispherical shell morphology in X-rays and in the radio band. In this...
A U.S.-led international team of geologists has discovered an active fault is creating new Dalmatian Islands off the Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea. The fault, which is also creating more of the Dinaride Mountains of Croatia, previously was believed to have stopped growing 20 million to 30 mil...
A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 09:13:10 (UTC) on Monday, July 17, 2006, South of Java, Indonesia, 210km SSW of Tasikmalaya, Java, at a depth of 46.6 km.
Location 9.133°S, 107.653°E
A major magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred at 08:19:30 (UTC) on Monday, July 17...
The Laborel (Stone; Ordinary Chondrite) H5 meteorite fell in the Drôme department in south-eastern France, on the 14th June, 1871. Recovered weight: 2.091 kg Latitude: 44° 17'N, Longitude: 5° 35'E
Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker, CSI, FRS, (14 June 1868 - 4 November 1958) was a British physicist and statistician of the 20th century. He is best known for his groundbreaking description of the Southern Oscillation, a major phenomenon of global climate, and for greatly advancing the study of climate i...
Knut Emil Lundmark (14 June 1889 - 23 April 1958) was a Swedish astronomer, professor of astronomy and head of the observatory at Lund University 1929-1955. Read more
Title: A new class of gamma-ray bursts from stellar disruptions by intermediate mass black holes Authors: H.Gao, Y.Lu, S.N.Zhang It has been argued that the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) of GRB 060614 without an associated supernova (SN) has challenged the current classification and fuel model for...
Orbital elements:
2013 LH25 Earth MOID = 0.2972 AU
Epoch 2013 May 28.0 TT = JDT 2456440.5 MPC
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P 2.18 H 17.5 G...
Orbital elements:
2013 LK25 Earth MOID = 0.1078 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 301.28338 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.68 H 21.4...
Orbital elements:
2013 LL25 Earth MOID = 0.0178 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 333.38141 (2000.0) P Q
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New Kind of Variable Star Discovered Astronomers using the Swiss 1.2-metre Euler telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile have found a new type of variable star. The discovery was based on the detection of very tiny changes in brightness of stars in a cluster. The observations revealed prev...
A total solar eclipse will occur on June 13, 2132. Lasting a maximum of 6 minutes, 55 seconds, it will be the longest solar eclipse since the solar eclipse of July 22, 2009, which lasted for 6 minutes 39 seconds. Read more
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