* Astronomy

The Angers (L6) meteorite fell in Pays de la Loire, France, on the 3rd June, 1822. An unknown total mass was recovered. 47° 28'N, 0° 33'W

The 1300 - 3000 metre wide asteroid 1998 QE2 will make a close pass (15.2 lunar distances, 0.0392 AU), travelling at 10.58 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st May, 2013 @ 20:59 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance...

The Astro2010 report, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, will be publically released in pre-publication form via the National Academies Press web site at 11:00am EDT on August 13, 2010 (the fully edited final publication version of the report will emerge later in the year). ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation will finalise details of Chandrayaan-II in six months, said Chairman G. Madhavan Nair. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the 58th International Astronautical Congress here, he said the ISRO would consider sending a lander-rover, which can move on t...

Title: Precise radial velocities of giant stars V. A brown dwarf and a planet orbiting the K giant stars tau Gem and 91 Aqr Authors: D. S. Mitchell, S. Reffert, T. Trifonov, A. Quirrenbach, D. A. Fischer We aim to detect and characterise substellar companions to K giant stars, to further our knowledge...

Frank Shu (born June 2, 1943), is an American astrophysicist, astronomer and author. Read more

Ariel 6, also known as Ariel VI and UK-6, was a British satellite launched in 1979 as part of the Ariel programme. Ariel 6 was used for astronomical research, and operated until February 1982. It was the last Ariel satellite to be launched. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_6]Read more[/...

Unravelling a Michigan meteorite mystery 7&4 News got a call this morning from a Grand Traverse man who reported that he and his friend found a possible meteorite behind Traverse City's State Hospital. 22-year-old Mark Hooper and 21-...

Here is a .MP3 song to listen to while you stargaze. It`s Madonnas new single `hung up` with the nice Abba sample. DOWNLOAD (4.6 Mb)

The Dutch West India Company was a chartered company (known as the "GWC") of Dutch merchants. On 2 June 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies (meaning the Caribbean) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the African sla...

Universe is a black-and-white short documentary made in 1960 by the National Film Board of Canada. It dramatises the nightly work of an astronomer at the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, a facility that is owned and operated by the University of Toronto, Canada. [url=http://en...

Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is an English impressionist and comedian. Read more Spoiler [spoiler][video=http://www.yo...

Gerald James Whitrow (9 June 1912, Kimmeridge, Dorset - 2 June 2000) was a British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian. Read more

The Palomar Sky Survey II (POSS II) got underway in August 1985, with the first of the 14" photographic glass plates being pulled off the Palomar 48-inch (1.2 m) Schmidt Camera (now known as The Samuel Oschin telescope). Jean Mueller was hired as the 48-inch (1.2 m) Night Assistant in July of tha...

Carlyle Smith Beals, OC FRS (June 29, 1899 - July 2, 1979) was a Canadian astronomer. Beals worked at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, until 1946. There, he studied emission lines in the spectra of certain hot stars, and studied gas clouds in the interstellar medium. He also de...