* Astronomy

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (25 October 1789 - 11 April 1875) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. Read more

A possible magnitude 8.1 nova was discovered on the 25th November, 2009, in the constellation Eridanus. Position(2000): RA=04h47m54.21s, Dec =-10° 10' 43".1 -- Edited by Blobrana on Thursday 26th of November 2009 01:51:22 PM

Title: A Ring of Warm Dust in the HD 32297 Debris Disk Authors: Michael P. Fitzgerald, Paul G. Kalas, James R. Graham We report the detection of a ring of warm dust in the edge-on disk surrounding HD 32297 with the Gemini-N/MICHELLE mid-infrared imager. Our N'-band image shows elongated structure c...

Title: Detection of a Transiting Low-Density Super-Earth Authors: Gregory W. Henry, Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, John Asher Johnson We present evidence for photometric transits of the low-mass planet HD 97658b across the disk of its host star, an early K dwarf. This plan...

Eugene N. Parker (born June 10, 1927) is an American solar astrophysicist who received his B.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1948 and Ph.D. from Caltech in 1951. In the mid-1950s Parker developed the theory on the supersonic solar wind and predicted the Parker spiral shape of...

William Nielsen Brandt (born June 10, 1970; also known as Niel Brandt) is a distinguished professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his work studying the X-ray properties of active galaxies, X-ray binaries, and other cosmic X-ray sources....

Frederik Kaiser (Amsterdam, June 10, 1808 - Leiden, July 28, 1872) was a Dutch astronomer. He was director of the Leiden Observatory from 1838 until his death. Read more

Immanuel Velikovsky (10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1895 - 17 November 1979) was a Russian-Jewish psychiatrist and independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, publishe...

Vinod Johri is an Indian astrophysicist. He is an eminent cosmologist, a retired professor of astrophysics at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an emeritus professor at Lucknow University since 1995. Read more

Ab al-Wafa, Muammad ibn Muammad ibn Yaya ibn Ismal ibn al-Abbas al-Bzjan (10 June 940 - 15 July 998) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad. Read more

Mount Tarawera is the volcano responsible for New Zealand's largest historic eruption. Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua in the North Island, it consists of a series of rhyolitic lava domes that were fissured down the middle by an explosive basaltic eruption in 1886, which killed an esti...

Orbital elements: 2013 LC7 Earth MOID = 0.0612 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 306.01386 (2000.0) P Q n 0.53532862 Peri. 298.89865 +0.63660897 -0.42627802 a 1.5021815 Node 93.75828 +0.70699298 +0.65546784 e 0.7956314 Incl. 40.09436 -0.30804212 +0.62341716 P 1.84 H 19.4 G...

Orbital elements: C/2013 L2 (Catalina) T 2012 Apr. 29.80458 TT MPC q 4.7745734 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 359.60709 +0.26860439 -0.27100506 Node 285.47035 -0.88112835 -0.45683979 e 1.0 Incl. 106.44517 -0.38918442 +0.84726245 From 73 observations 2013 June 2-8. MPEC 2013 - L41 Key to Orbital e...

Orbital elements: 2013 LF7 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0208 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 330.64529 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26601167 Peri. 185.72931 +0.69313780 +0.71703783 a 2.3944306 Node 128.17710 -0.65755237 +0.67083490 e 0.5870709 Incl. 5.37215 -0.29527086 +0.18930738 P 3.71 H 2...

The Lanxi (L6) meteorite fell in Heilongjiang, China, on the 10th June, 1986. A total mass of 1282 g was recovered. 46° 14' 30"N, 126° 11' 46"E