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Bay of Plenty man Lloyd Ganley was standing outside his garage having a chat to his neighbour when "old E T came to visit". He was almost hit in the head by an ancient meteorite that whistled past him, sailed through the open roller door of the garage, and smashed into some buckets. Read more

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Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission I - CoRoT-Exo-1b: a low-density short-period planet around a G0V star Authors: P. Barge, A. Baglin, M. Auvergne, H. Rauer, A. Leger, J. Schneider, F. Pont, S. Aigrain, J.-M. Almenara, R. Alonso, M. Barbieri, P. Borde, F. Bouchy, H.-J. Deeg...

RVCC marks the opening of the 3M Observatory Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg held a ceremony May 3 to mark the official opening of its new 3M Observatory. The $400,000 facility, which is located next to the College's Planetarium, was funded by a $100,000 grant from the 3M Foundation a...

A Total solar eclipse occurred on May 19, 557 BCERead more (PDF)

Pentecost is the old Greek and Latin name for the Jewish harvest festival, or Festival of Weeks (Hag haShavuot or Shevuot, literally "Festival of Weeks"), which can be found in the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is called the Festival of Weeks (Hebrew: chag ha-Shavuot, Exodus 34:22, Deuteronom...

Orbital elements: 2008 YX32 Earth MOID = 0.1653 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 247.94325 (2000.0) P Q n 0.72009870 Peri. 149.82266 -0.56675324 +0.79446607 a 1.2327491 Node 84.80288 -0.79292860 -0.45405669 e 0.3910129 Incl. 12.65665 -0.22372977 -0.40330657 P 1.37 H 20.8...

The 170 - 370 metre wide asteroid 2007 XY9 will make a close pass (29.5 lunar distances, 0.0759 AU), travelling at 13.86 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd July, 2013 @ 08:34 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Dista...

The 290 - 640 metre wide asteroid 2008 MG1 will make a close pass (49.3 lunar distances, 0.1268 AU), travelling at 22.32 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th June, 2012 @ 23:07 UT ±01:53. See more The Lunar Distan...

The 30 - 66 metre wide asteroid 2006 BL8 will make a close pass (9.3 lunar distances, 0.0239 AU), travelling at 11.51 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th July, 2013 @ 02:35 UT ±1 day 23:55. See more The Lunar Dist...

The Samelia (Iron) meteorite fell in Rajasthan, India, on the 20th May, 1921. A total mass of 2.46 kg was recovered. 25° 40'N, 74° 52'E

Title: Detection of X-rays from the jet-driving symbiotic star Hen 3-1341 Authors: Matthias Stute (1), Gerardo J. M. Luna (2, 3), Ignazio F. Pillitteri (3), Jennifer L. Sokoloski (4) ((1) Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, (2) CONICET-UBA, (3) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysic...

The Tysnes Island (H4) meteorite fell in Hordaland, Norway, on the 20th May, 1884. A total mass of 19.86 kg was recovered. 60° 0'N, 5° 37'E

The Castine (L6) meteorite fell in Maine, USA, on the 20th May, 1848. A total mass of 94 g was recovered. 44° 23'N, 68° 45'W

Title: An Understanding of the Shoulder of Giants: Jovian Planets around Late K Dwarf Stars and the Trend with Stellar Mass Authors: Eric Gaidos, Debra A. Fischer, Andrew W. Mann, Andrew W. Howard Analyses of exoplanet statistics suggest a trend of giant planet occurrence with host star mass, a clu...