* Astronomy

The Konovo (OC) meteorite fell in Burgas, Bulgaria, on the 26th May, 1931. A total mass of 100 g was recovered. 42° 31'N, 26° 10'E

The Witklip Farm (H5) meteorite fell in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on the 26th May, 1918. A total mass of 22 g was recovered. 26°S, 30°E

The Calivo (Stone) meteorite fell in Western Visayas, Philippines, on the 26th May, 1916. A total mass of 2.4 kg was recovered. 11° 45'N, 122° 20'E

The Beaver Creek (H5) meteorite fell in British Columbia, Canada, on the 26th May, 1893. A total mass of 14 kg was recovered. 51° 10'N, 117° 20'W

The Hraschina (Iron) meteorite fell in Croatia, on the 26th May, 1751. A total mass of 49 kg was recovered. 46° 6'N, 16° 20'E

The Oliva-Gandia (Stone) meteorite fell in Valenciana, Spain, on the 26th May, 1520. An unknown total mass was recovered. 39° 0'N, 0° 2'W

The Ràpita or Peniscola 1916, August 5. St. Carles de la Rapita (Tarragona), Spain. The meteor fell into the sea near Peniscola. No one has any sample. "At 14:15 h, showed a bright burst that ran from N. to SW. Leaving a trail of smoke. Within 10 minutes there was a loud bang accompanied by a slight s...

Valencia is a chondrite (silicate-rich stony meteorite) and forms part of the rock collection of the Department of Geology of the University of Valencia, Spain. References do exist regarding falls on Spain's east coast: Oliva-Gandía in 1520, Valencia in 1603, and Peñíscola in 1916. Unfortunate...

2nd phase of Khufu solar boat project to begin Monday At an international press conference held on Egypt's Giza Plateau next Monday, Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim is expected to announce the launch of the second phase of the Khufu solar boat restoration project, whic...

Abraham de Moivre (26 May 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France) was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham...

Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 - 27 November 1875) was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot o...

Hubble Sees a Swirl of Star Formation This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather poetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf the galaxy, stretching out into space in different directions and forming a fuzzy streak in this image. It is a starburst galaxy - a n...

Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a German-American-Swiss physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [url=ht...

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (May 25, 1889 - October 26, 1972), was a Russian American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914. [ur...

25th Sep 2011 - Dark Planets and Dark Matter Are the foundations of Dark Matter crumbling? How can a planet be blacker than black paint? What are the sunsets like on a planet with 2 suns? In this month's Naked Astronomy, we'll discover Kepler-16b; a planet with two suns, we look to recent experimenta...